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Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday was dismayed over the budget cuts to the government’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Enforcement program. “Bilang sponsor ng Expanded Anti Trafficking Act Of 2022, nakakadismaya ang nakaambang budget cut para sa implementasyon nito. Funding the legislation is as important as passing the law,” Hontiveros said in a statement. (As a…
From Aug. 23 to 25, a delegation of U.S. Attorneys, their criminal division chiefs, and Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force chiefs (OCDETF) from eight border districts traveled to Mexico City to participate in a series of briefings and meetings on security cooperation matters, including efforts to combat transnational criminal organizations and efforts to…
Press Releases 09/23/2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Hartford, CT) – The Division of Criminal Justice’s Regionalized Human Trafficking Recovery Taskforce of the Greater Hartford Region is hosting a screening of a new documentary about the rapid rise of “sextortion” crimes across the United States. A special screening of “Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic” will be held at 6 p.m….
Thu, 09/22/2022 – 12:14pm | By: Karelia Pitts Earlier this summer, the Board of Trustees of Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) approved a proposal from The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) School of Social Work to form a Center for Human Trafficking Research and Training (CHRT) – the first center of its kind in…
It is an unsettling statistic. Florida ranks third in the United States for reported human trafficking cases according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — * The video above is from a previous story. It is an unsettling statistic. Florida ranks third in the United States for reported human trafficking cases according to…
In partnership with First Lady Molly Curry’s Educational Art Legacy Project, Rethreaded is hosting a Human Trafficking Panel entitled “Education is the Beginning to the End of Human Trafficking.” …
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEL LINDSAY, also known as “Joey Guapo,” 24, a citizen of Jamaica last residing in East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 135 months of imprisonment for child sex trafficking. According to court documents…
More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses — like stealing a hog — if they committed any crime at all. Women and children,…
Human trafficking is a complex and dynamic crime, federally defined as the use of force, fraud or coercion to exploit other people through sex or labor for financial or personal gain. Recently, national conversation has focused on trafficking within the context of governors sending migrants seeking asylum in this country to Martha’s Vineyard and Washington,…
Bosses in industries such as retail, health care and logistics are reverting to an old tactic and trapping people in miserable jobs by threatening to saddle them with debt if they quit. Workers across the United States in fields ranging from nursing to trucking have been discouraged from leaving jobs they hate or can’t…
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