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UK anti-slavery bill must focus more on victims, MP says

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 Author: Katie Nguyen

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The British government's proposed law to wipe out modern-day slavery is a landmark piece of legislation but needs to focus more on victims to ensure a higher rate of convictions.

That is the view of Caroline Spelman, a member of a cross-party committee of parliamentarians charged with scrutinising the draft law published last year.

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US laws to stop jailing child sex-trafficking victims expand but funding to help victims falls short

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Author: Stella Dawson

WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)--Over the past five years, 12 states in America have passed laws to stop treating young girls and boys arrested for prostitution as criminals but as victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, a shift that is starting to bring the United States into line with human rights’ norms in Europe.


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Rights activists say Vietnamese trafficking victims forced to grow marijuana in Europe

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 Author: Rachel Browne


 TORONTO
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Vietnamese grandmother doing time
 in an Irish prison is the face of a recent trend in human trafficking, 
human rights activists say.


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Society must pressure govts to stop human trafficking-expert

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Anne Gallagher, a former UN adviser on human trafficking, spoke to Thomson Reuters Foundation this week following her keynote address on the first day of the Trust Women conference in London.

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Banning recruitment fees would help fight against trafficking - expert

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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tackling demand for goods and services produced through slavery, a global minimum wage and the elimination of labour recruitment fees are needed to push ahead the global fight against human trafficking, a leading expert on the issue said on Tuesday.

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Knee-jerk reactions to human trafficking harm lives - academic

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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Panicked policy reactions to human trafficking and an over-emphasis on the issue of sex trafficking can cause more harm than good for human trafficking survivors, academic, author and human trafficking expert, Pardis Mahdavi said.

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