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Saturday, August 1, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Outcry as Malaysia's human trafficking record brings praise from US | US news | The Guardian
"The United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centres, US sources said on Wednesday, a move that could smooth the way for an ambitious US-led free-trade deal with the south-east Asian nation and 11 other countries."
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
The “Perfect Victim” Problem | Human Trafficking Search
"This focus on the “perfect victim” is a problem for the identification of victims and prosecution of perpetrators for any crime. However, it is especially problematic for sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in part because of the stigma that exists around sex work."
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Ohio salon employees taking required course in human trafficking - WOWK 13 Charleston, Huntington WV News, Weather, Sports
"Salons are not necessarily a hotbed for human trafficking, but are among the industries where labor trafficking specifically can be found, according to the Polaris Project, a non-profit that researches and informs about human trafficking in the United States."
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Olson hosts human trafficking summit - Your Houston News: Living
“There’s a lot of work that needs to be done to end this culture, to make it scary to buy girls and to make sure law enforcement and prosecutors do everything they can to make sure Houston does stay this hub for human trafficking.”
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Friday, January 9, 2015
Thailand’s Sex Trafficking Figures Suspect? - Asia Sentinel
Few issues in Thailand are as emotive as sex trafficking, which activists say is a growing problem despite the millions of dollars spent on tackling it each year.
At least 80,000 women and girls are supposedly trafficked into Thailand’s sex industry annually, some claim, with children as young as eight locked up in brothels and forced to service up to 20 men a day. Poor hilltribe families in the north are said to frequently sell their daughters into the flesh trade, seeing this as “a quick way to obtain material goods that designate social status.”
The problem, however, is that the figures simply don’t add up, nor do the horrifying, heart-wrenching stories stand up to scrutiny. Critics say anti-trafficking activists often have a “white savior complex,” are self-serving, routinely inflate statistics, deliberately conflate the separate issues of trafficking and prostitution, and in general do far more harm than good.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Few charged with human trafficking end up behind bars | Canada | News | Calgary
LONDON, Ont. - Arrests in recent years for human trafficking have made for exciting front page headlines. The withdrawal of charges have happened without notice.
The low success rate in human trafficking charges is raising questions about the way those laws are being applied.
"It is really tricky. There are a lot of grey areas," said Karlee Anne Sapoznik, head of the Alliance Against Modern Slavery, a Canadian non-profit advocacy group. "If you look at the difference between Canada and the United States, it's quite shocking the success rates for convictions for trafficking."
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
How Brazil Shames Companies That Enslave People - Business Insider
Brazil has embraced an aggressive approach to combating modern-day slavery, including making supply chains more transparent, according to the new Global Slavery Index.
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Friday, October 24, 2014
New data offers an inside look at labor trafficking in the U.S. - The Washington Post
Many foreign-born victims of labor trafficking actually came to the United States legally, according to a study released Tuesday that provides an in-depth look into forced labor.
The study from Urban Institute and Northeastern University draws upon a trove of data, including closed records of 122 victims, as well as interviews with people who had been forced into work, along with police and advocates.
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Friday, October 17, 2014
South Florida man traveled to Colombia for sex with underage girls, feds say - Sun Sentinel
Federal agents have arrested a South Florida man they said made several trips to South America to have sex and make child pornography videos with underage girls.
Dennis DeJesus, 45, of North Lauderdale, was arrested at his home Saturday on child "sex tourism" allegations. He was caught in a major international undercover investigation in Colombia and the U.S. that resulted in the weekend arrests of 11 Colombians on child sex-trafficking charges.
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Florida teacher in Belize child-sex sting faces life - Orlando Sentinel
TAMPA — Trying to persuade a 13-year-old girl in Belize to have sex with him, Pasco County middle school teacher David Wendel Thompson used a tactic officials say is common among adults wanting to exploit impoverished children.
"But u need help," he said in an online conversation last December. I want u to have a better life."
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U.S., Colombian authorities break up sex-trafficking ring with underage boys and girls | Fox News Latino
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – In a joint operation between the United States and Colombia, in recent days authorities broke up a major sex-trafficking ring that used drugs to force underage boys and girls into prostitution.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Study: Human Trafficking Cases Rarely Result in Restitution | Legal Times
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Human-trafficking cases—while mandated by law to award money to forced-labor and prostitution victims—rarely result in restitution payments, according to a study published Tuesday.
About 36 percent of 186 federal cases from 2009 to 2012 awarded restitution to victims, the study found. Among them, forced-labor victims received more restitution, at about $77,000 more per case compared to sex-trafficking victims.
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
Of millions spent to fight trafficking, victims get little | Reuters
A recent issue of Anti-Trafficking Review, an annual journal by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), challenges the effectiveness and efficiency of funds spent on anti-trafficking by the UN, governments and private groups.
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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.
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http://www.polarisproject.org/what-we-do/policy-advocacy/national-policy/state-ratings-on-human-trafficking-laws
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
This Is What Modern-Day Sex Slavery In America Looks Like | Business Insider
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The New York City mayor’s office recently helped launch a program to give legal assistance to victims of sex trafficking, and a woman in her 40s who endured years as a virtual slave appeared at its news conference.
That woman, who now goes by the name Kika Cerpa, survived an ugly crime that has started to get attention in America only in recent years. While many survivors come from impoverished circumstances, others, like Cerpa, had jobs before falling prey to sex traffickers. Some victims come from the U.S., while many others come from overseas. Their stories vary, but traffickers use some of the same tactics to control their victims.
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