"In an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case, Boies, Schiller & Flexner and Legal Momentum argue that Congress never intended for the Communications Decency Act to permit a website operator to deliberately create a forum for, and profit from, criminal activity, especially the sex trafficking of minors. The brief was also filed on behalf of a coalition of organizations and individuals that provide support to survivors and educate the public on the harm caused by sex trafficking, including Cindy McCain, Florida Abolitionist, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, the Organization for Prostitution Survivors, Rising International, Sojourner Center, StolenYouth, StreetLightUSA, and the YWCA of Silicon Valley."
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Human trafficking activists welcome supreme court ruling on compensation | Law | theguardian.com
Human trafficking activists welcome supreme court ruling on compensation | Law | theguardian.com:
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
Campaigners against human trafficking have welcomed a supreme court ruling that victims are entitled to compensation for mistreatment even if their entry into the UK was illegal.
The unanimous judgment overturns a decision by the court of appeal that had deprived a young Nigerian woman of an employment tribunal award against her former employer.
Read: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jul/30/human-trafficking-campaigners-supreme-court-ruling-compensation
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