The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Friday urged member-nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to help stamp out the $32-billion global human trafficking.Speaking during the forum of ASEAN national human rights institutions (NHRI) in Mandaluyong City, CHR Chairperson ...
In most countries,resources to fight human traffickingare woefully inadequate. Agencies strive to use them as effectively and efficiently as possible, and often find themselves fighting for scarce funding and support. A government, for example, may need to decide how best to fund or schedule labor...
A new weapon in the fight against human trafficking was unveiled yesterday in Mississauga. An online training resource established, in part, by the Women’s Trucking Federation of Canada (WTFC) is being provided to truckers who travel the 400-series highways and QEW in Mississauga, in addition...
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“Our research with child sex trafficking survivors has shown that many of them use text as their primary form of communication and that, when under the control of their trafficker, they were in need of more accessible, discrete forms of communication to seek help,” said Julie Cordua, Ex...
Google is one of several prominent tech firms contributing pro-bono to the fight against human trafficking. TheMicrosoft Digital Crimes Unit, alongside more conventional work fighting malware and offering assistance to institutions facing cyberattacks, assists stakeholders tocreate tech solutions to ...
Human trafficking is a serious, widespread problem but one we can all help to identify and do our best to prevent. Through awareness, monitoring, and reporting, compliance professionals and their companies will be better placed to make a difference in the global fight against this illi...
“We’ll never give up on the fight,” said Julie Stuckey, Managing Consultant atAdvitoand a member of BCD’s Human Trafficking Awareness Committee. “BCD is committed to educating people and creating awareness every chance we get. Every watchful traveler brings us closer to ending this exploita...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered a ban on online gambling operations in July, saying they have mocked Philippine laws and committed crimes including financial scams, human trafficking, torture, kidnappings and murder. China has banned gambling, but most of the clients of ...