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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Thursday, the 9th of February, 2023. Thanks for listening to WORLD Radio today! Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown. MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. First up on The World and Everything in It: human trafficking. Estimates are that more than 27 million people endure forced labor around the world. To…
Several foreign embassies – all of them Asian – warned their citizens of the risks associated with traveling to this country and the United States dropped Cambodia to the lowest ranking on its annual Trafficking in Persons Report for failing to “meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.” Many of those scam operations were established by Chinese criminals who decided not to…
Mizzima/Shankar KumarIn China is a troublesome bugbear not only because of its avoidable territorial designs against its neighbours but also because of its human trafficking syndicates who lure away hundreds of people from Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand on the pretext of providing them decent jobs but force them to work in…
Beijing [China], February 3 (ANI):In southeast Asian region, Chinese human trafficking syndicates operate in nexus with local authorities in countries for luring away hundreds of people on the pretext of providing them decent jobs but are forced to work in the illegal cryptocurrency business, brothels, and massage parlours, Mekong News reported. According to Mekong News,…
This year’s Miss Universe is a strong advocate for the environment. R’Bonney Gabriel is a model, sewing instructor, and environmentally friendly fashion designer, according to CNN. Gabriel, who recently won the Miss Universe pageant, first made headlines last year when she became the first Filipino American Miss USA. She’s also a force for change in…
Editor’s note: while this doesn’t specifically call out trafficking, the resources for the EV market are an important anti-trafficking battleground. This is supplied for your research. The artificial mound covers a radioactive pond from when the town covertly processed uranium for the Soviet nuclear industry until 1989. Today, the adjacent facilities are home to oil…
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s record of 38 years in power is currently exceeded by only three African despots. The presidents of Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and Uganda, Théodoros Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Paul Biya, and Yoweri Museveni, have all held power for longer than Hun Sen. Like him, they are political fossils who have done…
January 30, 2023 published at 12:00 PM Cellebrite and The Exodus Road Continue Combatting Human Trafficking in Brazil In 2022, nine operations resulted in the direct intervention of 152 survivors and arrests of 20 perpetrators of human trafficking Globe Newswire January 30, 2023 PETAH TIKVA, Israel and TYSONS CORNER, Va. and COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan….
Author: Kearrin Sims, James Cook University Laos experienced compounding social and economic pressures in 2022. The headline news story of the year was the country’s dire external debt. 2022 was also significant as it marked the 10th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone — a community development worker who provided successful alternatives to…
The revelations of a report prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) titled, “Trafficking in Persons 2022,” are chilling and concerning. According to it, only one person was convicted in a human trafficking case in Bangladesh in 2020, illustrating a shockingly low conviction rate in the country for such an egregious…
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