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Showing posts with label Contemporary slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contemporary slavery. Show all posts
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: A Closer Look at U.S. Citizen Victims | Polaris | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery
Check out this issue brief recently released by POLARIS:
Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: A Closer Look at U.S. Citizen Victims | Polaris | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery:
Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: A Closer Look at U.S. Citizen Victims | Polaris | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery:
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Monday, May 18, 2015
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Commission Meeting Focuses on Sex Trafficking and Foster Childre - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather
Officials gathered at the General Assembly Building in Richmond on Tuesday for a meeting of the Commission on Youth. They say foster kids are at a higher risk to become victims of sex trafficking.
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Commission Meeting Focuses on Sex Trafficking and Foster Childre - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather:
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Commission Meeting Focuses on Sex Trafficking and Foster Childre - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather:
Friday, May 8, 2015
Clausen: Modern-day slavery a troubling reality
"Undocumented workers brought illegally to Rochester and other parts of the country to work as part of the underground labor trafficking industry is happening locally — and in plain sight, according to union leaders and others taking part in a recent panel at the Rochester Police Locust Club."
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Monday, April 13, 2015
Do successful prosecutions constitute success in the fight against modern-day slavery? | Human Trafficking Search
But over the years we came to ask ourselves a very important question: Is it truly “success” to have brought those already-existing operations to justice? We helped pioneered the worker-based, victim-centered, multi-sector approaches to investigations, collaborating with law enforcement. We know the work is urgent and essential. Actual success, however, is getting to the point where the “Slavery in Fields” is history, not 21st century headline news.
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Friday, April 10, 2015
Why Southeast Asia struggles to tackle modern-day slavery | Asia | DW.DE | 09.04.2015
In a DW interview, Annette Lyth, Regional Project Manager at the United Nations Action for Cooperation against Trafficking in Persons, explains how widespread forced labor is across Southeast Asia and why the governments in the region are struggling to put an end to the practice.
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Monday, April 6, 2015
CNN Enters New Phase in CNN Freedom Project to Expose Modern-Day Slavery – CNN Press Room - CNN.com Blogs
CNN is bringing viewers a renewed series of reporting and programming about modern slavery in the ground-breaking and award-winning editorial initiative, CNN Freedom Project.
Throughout 2015, CNN will air stories that uncover and expose modern-day slavery including human trafficking, child labour and the sex trade. There will be a focus on turning engagement with CNN Freedom Project into action, with an emphasis on education and harnessing the passion of young people to make a difference.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Vatican announces a Day of Prayer against human trafficking | Crux
ROME — Building on one of Pope Francis’ top social and political priorities, the Vatican has presented plans for a first-ever “International Day of Prayer and Reflection against Human Trafficking” to be held Feb. 8.
Trafficking in human beings is an illegal industry estimated to affect 36 million people around the world and to generate $150 billion in annual profits. It’s been a matter of concern for Francis from his time in Argentina, and has emerged as a core preoccupation of his papacy.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
2014 In Human Trafficking | International Political Forum
The pressure of unprecedented globalisation has meant that human trafficking and modern day slavery are inescapable realities of our political system. From Pope Francis declaring human trafficking as a “crime against humanity” to forced labourin Thailand’s seafood industry, the issue of human trafficking has been contemplated in 2014 in a way that it has not been before. Contemplation, however, does not effectively tackle the unfavourable issue of human trafficking; neither does it halt thegrowing vulnerability of migrants in a period of brisk economic change. A new year entails a new direction, and a contemporary approach to a perennial issue.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Activists, executives advise Thailand how to tackle trafficking | Reuters
"BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thailand must empower victims of trafficking and forced labor to complain and must crack down on corrupt officials if it wants to tackle its human trafficking problem, activists and food industry executives say."
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
U.N. Report Shows an Increase in Child Trafficking - NYTimes.com
One in three human trafficking victims is a child, most victims are female, and traffickers operate with wide impunity, the United Nations said Monday in a report on modern-day slavery.
The 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, also found that the proportion of children among victims appeared to be rising. Its first report, in 2012, said the proportion had been closer to one in four.Read more
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Saturday, October 25, 2014
BBC News - 'Modern day slavery' farmer David Doran jailed for four years
A horse farmer who forced a "terrified" vulnerable man to work unpaid for 13 years in "modern day slavery" has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
David Daniel Doran, 42, pleaded guilty midway through his trial to making Darrell Simester, from Worcestershire, perform forced or compulsory labour.
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Saturday, September 20, 2014
2014 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws | Polaris | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery
2014 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws | Polaris | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery:
Polaris has rated all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on 10 categories of laws that are critical to a basic legal framework that combats human trafficking, punishes traffickers and supports survivors.
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http://www.polarisproject.org/what-we-do/policy-advocacy/national-policy/state-ratings-on-human-trafficking-laws
Polaris has rated all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on 10 categories of laws that are critical to a basic legal framework that combats human trafficking, punishes traffickers and supports survivors.
Read more:
http://www.polarisproject.org/what-we-do/policy-advocacy/national-policy/state-ratings-on-human-trafficking-laws
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Roskam: Fighting human trafficking in the foster care system | mySuburbanLife.com
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For too many children in the foster care system, their lives have been filled with instability, abuse, and neglect. Often these children are passed from home to home not knowing how long they will stay in one place or who they can trust. The psychological toll of such an environment makes it all too easy for human trafficking rings to target vulnerable foster care youth and force them into what can only be described as modern day slavery. That is why lawmakers, community leaders and law enforcement agencies are joining forces to prevent the estimated 104,000 children in foster care from becoming victims of physical and psychological abuse.
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Monday, July 21, 2014
'Thailand 'on trial' over food industry exposé victimisation' - Andrew Drummond
'Thailand 'on trial' over food industry exposé victimisation' - Andrew Drummond:
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has described Thailand as being ‘on trial’ for allowing a company to prosecute a human rights defender who exposed modern day slavery in its canned fruit and fishing industry.
Read Andrew Drummond's article:
http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2014/07/thailand-on-trial-over-food-industry.html
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has described Thailand as being ‘on trial’ for allowing a company to prosecute a human rights defender who exposed modern day slavery in its canned fruit and fishing industry.
Read Andrew Drummond's article:
http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2014/07/thailand-on-trial-over-food-industry.html
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Investors welcome federal bill calling for corporate disclosures on trafficking and slavery risks | ICCR (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility)
Source: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
June 12, 2014 -- The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of 300 investors with assets under management of over $100 billion, Calvert Investments and Christian Brothers Investment Services, commend Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) on the introduction of The Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act of 2014 (H.R. 4842). The new bill calls on corporations to strengthen their commitment to end human trafficking and modern day slavery by requiring them to disclose the policies and management systems they have in place to better identify and eradicate these violations within their global supply chains.
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http://www.iccr.org/investors-welcome-federal-bill-calling-corporate-disclosures-trafficking-and-slavery-risks
June 12, 2014 -- The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of 300 investors with assets under management of over $100 billion, Calvert Investments and Christian Brothers Investment Services, commend Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) on the introduction of The Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act of 2014 (H.R. 4842). The new bill calls on corporations to strengthen their commitment to end human trafficking and modern day slavery by requiring them to disclose the policies and management systems they have in place to better identify and eradicate these violations within their global supply chains.
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http://www.iccr.org/investors-welcome-federal-bill-calling-corporate-disclosures-trafficking-and-slavery-risks
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