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Last week as we wrapped up the historic celebration of Juneteenth, the day Union soldiers announced the ending of chattel slavery, in Galveston, Texas, the exploitation of human beings is still in existence, and resources to help remedy the situation continue to stall. The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022…
In Niger today, tens of thousands of people are enslaved, trapped in generational cycles. Slavery remains deeply entrenched in Niger despite efforts to eradicate these practices through legislation to officially criminalize the practice. Wahaya Wahaya is one of the common forms of bondage in the country, where girls are bought to perform domestic work and…
ECPAT International endorses the Brave Movement Press Release of June 24 – 2022 A new report ranking G7 nations on their efforts to protect children from abuse shows that global leaders are failing – with progress woefully inadequate to end childhood sexual violence The U.S.A, France, Japan and Italy are the worst performers, having made very…
At a time of distressing furore on social media and the streets against the near-total bans on abortion in the West, India’s generous stance on the termination of pregnancy is a comforting sanctum. Coupled with the moratorium on commercial surrogacy and the proposal to equalise men’s and women’s ages at marriage, India is positioned securely…
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims has said Ghislaine Maxwell used her ‘femininity to betray us’ like she was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’. Virginia Giuffre had no involvement in the 60-year-old British socialite’s trial, at the end of which she was convicted of sex trafficking and other crimes but has become one of Epstein’s most…
Human anti-trafficking campaigns rely on the “three p’s” of prevention, protection and prosecution. But a fourth one – preemption – has now resulted in a thorny controversy. A new book titled “Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria’s Campaign to End Human Trafficking” reveals how government agents have stopped thousands of women during the past 20 years from traveling out of…
MYRTLE BEACH — The “mastermind” of a multistate child sex trafficking conspiracy was sentenced to federal prison on June 23 along with three related conspirators. The 26-year-old ringleader, Hart William Grow of Surprise, Arizona, was convicted of running a trafficking scheme that involved at least two minors from South Carolina. He is also alleged to…
A 33-year-old Winnipeg man who was arrested last year after a two-year police investigation into human trafficking has now been sentenced to three years in jail — one of the first lengthy sentences for the charge in Manitoba, Winnipeg police say. The investigation began in 2019 into a person who police believed was recruiting young women to…
Modern day slavery, or human trafficking, is more prevalent than many realize. Here we will give you a guide to understand human trafficking in your area.
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When first hearing about human trafficking, many people ask this question: “if people being trafficked are not physically restrained, why don’t they just leave?” The answer requires a compassionate and nuanced understanding of the multi-faceted nature of exploitation. Although the majority of trafficking survivors have not ever been chained up or kept locked in a…
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