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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons received 5,275 calls reporting human trafficking-related cases nationwide from September 2021 to August 2022. The agency also said it secured 36 convictions in nine months. It noted that its partnership with the social media giant, Facebook, in September 2021 opened a new conduit that received…
Community advocates call for more affordable housing to prevent victimization and support survivors LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Sept. 22, 2022) – Louisville is inviting professionals and community leaders, including those working in violence prevention, housing, youth services, social services, healthcare, education and law enforcement, to attend a two-part training series to combat human trafficking and better support…
Joint statement regarding the sentencing of Piper Lewis prepared by the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking and Slavery and Shared Hope International In sentencing child sex trafficking survivor, Pieper Lewis, on September 13, 2022, Judge David Porter stated, “Ms. Lewis, this is the second chance you asked for. You don’t get a third. Do you…
According to the BBC, thousands of people across South East Asia have been trafficked to Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand where they are forced to work in online scam centers known as “fraud factories”. “I knew then I had come to the wrong place” Victims report accepting attractive work offers abroad but having their passports taken…
This past week, world leaders have assembled at the United Nations (U.N.) in New York for the annual opening of the General Assembly. While some diplomats have taken to the podium, many advocates have done the same on the streets and in the media. They have a common message: the U.N. must act on the…
This is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage. Most people don’t believe that it’s going on in their own backyard, human trafficking. The local chapters of two historic sororities have come together to combat the problem in Prince George’s…
Resty Kulabako, a teen from Mbarara was impregnated by a man old enough to be her father. That was after a relative whom she had gone to visit during lockdown married her off because he had got a loan from the said man. The pregnancy was not a welcome idea to her mother and sisters…
A new report on global slavery ranks Uzbekistan and Pakistan among the five worst offenders in terms of the number of people forced into modern slavery. With its forced labor in the cotton fields, Uzbekistan also was estimated to be the world’s second-worst country when ranked by the prevalence of slavery in proportion to the…
BOSTON – A Brockton woman was sentenced on Sept. 15, 2022 in federal court in Boston for her involvement in a conspiracy that involved coercing young women to engage in prostitution. Natashia Bowman, 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Alison D. Burroughs to three years of probation and was ordered to pay restitution…
(Trigger warning: The story describes incidents of abuse.) In 2013, Pallabi Ghosh received a phone call that a young girl was confined in a house in a posh colony in New Delhi and tortured. Pallabi, who was a part of anti-trafficking NGO Shakti Vahini at that time, ignored the call at first because she had…
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