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Pieper Lewis’s Sentencing Places Spotlight on Need for Legislation

ByEyes on Trafficking News October 27, 2022December 23, 2022

NAHT Asks For Your Help Once Annually on November 29th On November 29th, the annual GivingTuesday global fundraising campaign will be launched. This is a huge effort to promote donations to nonprofits such as the NAHT. Grassroots donors gave nearly $2 billion worldwide on GivingTuesday in 2021. We hope to inspire you to go to…

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Unpaid California County Jail Work Set for Ninth Circuit Debate

ByEyes on Trafficking News October 16, 2022January 2, 2023

An Aramark Corp. subsidiary will urge a federal appeals court in San Francisco to toss a lawsuit from non-convicted inmates at a California county jail who worked for the company without being paid. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument Monday on whether California’s minimum wage and overtime protections…

Inside the 'pig-butchering' scams seeing thousands trafficked into cyber slavery – ABC News

ByEyes on Trafficking News September 16, 2022September 23, 2023

Editor’s note: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ELDERLY PERSONS YOU KNOW. Their savings might be at risk. Better to be safe and get educated about these types of scams. “Pig-butchering” online scams have grown from continued poverty and corruption. And they prey on our vulnerabilities. This specific type of labor trafficking essentially creates a Ponzi…

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‘A vestige of slavery’: Why advocates are fighting to make prison labor voluntary

ByEyes on Trafficking News September 7, 2022November 26, 2022

Prisoners making license plates is a popular stereotype, but most of the nation’s 800,000 incarcerated workers hold jobs more similar to those on the outside: They cook and serve food, mop floors, mow lawns, and cut hair. Unlike other workers, though, the incarcerated have little say, if any, in what jobs they do. They face…

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Harvesting vulnerability: The challenges of organ trafficking in armed conflict

ByEyes on Trafficking News September 7, 2022March 12, 2023

Abstract Armed conflicts leave populations vulnerable to organ trafficking, a criminal enterprise with little international regulation when viewed separately from human trafficking. The Council of Europe’s Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs is the only instrument to contemplate the responsibility of actors involved in organ trafficking, but traffickers may go unpunished due to its limited…

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Spike in forced child marriage feared by Australian authorities

ByEyes on Trafficking News September 3, 2022September 12, 2022

As overseas travel resumes, authorities in Australia are concerned that this will lead to a spike in forced child marriages taking place abroad ABC News reports. Forced into marriage abroad Residing in Sydney, Kubra (not her real name) was engaged at just 11 years old and forced by her parents into marriage at the age…

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'A legacy of hope': Scholarship awarded in honor of Sydney Loofe – KETV

ByEyes on Trafficking News June 10, 2022September 26, 2022

OMAHA, Neb. — Sydney Loofe’s bright smile flashes on screen Friday night, as her family awarded a scholarship in Loofe’s name. “I guess I’m just glad that we are able to offer this every year,” Susie Loofe said. Loofe’s parents, George and Susie partnered with The Set Me Free Project for the scholarship. The organization…

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Manchester Iowa Man Sentenced to 45 Years

ByEyes on Trafficking News April 21, 2022March 12, 2023

Click a link below to jump to a particular article or scroll down to read the whole blog post. Iowa Trafficker Sentenced to 45 Years Iowa Human Trafficking Summit: May 10th-11th Urgent Need to Pass Safe Harbor Bill 500 Organizations Join IBAT Ukrainian Refugees at Risk of being Trafficked Grassley Co-Sponsors legislation to Support Human…

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The Current State of Restitution for Survivors of Human Trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News December 30, 2021July 29, 2023

Introduction Survivors of human trafficking face many barriers to rebuilding their lives and avoiding revictimization. One such barrier is the ability to move forward financially. Human Trafficking — “the crime of using force, fraud, or coercion to compel someone to work or to engage in commercial sex”— often enriches the trafficker at the expense of…

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