Why have some states adopted more comprehensive anti-human trafficking laws than other states? This paper answers that question in relation to the adoption of anti-human trafficking legislation over the past decade. Human trafficking is the greatest human rights challenge of our time and is reputed...
State and federal laws now allow survivors of human trafficking to recover from businesses benefiting financially from horrendous acts of sexual and human abuse. A 2008 amendment to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (“TVPRA”) allows survivors to bring civil claims against business...
The human rights situation in the United States, which has notorious records, worsened in 2021. Political manipulation led to a sharp surge in COVID-19 deaths; Shooting deaths hit a new record; Fake democracy trampled on people's political rights; Violent law enforcement made life harder for m...
Region with the highest number of victims Share of victims that were girls in 2020 Convictions, persecutions and laws Number of prosecutions worldwide Number of convictions worldwide Share of countries with no specific anti-trafficking laws as of 2020 Forced labor Region with the highest...
Human trafficking, form of modern-day slavery involving the illegal transport of individuals by force or deception for the purpose of labor, sexual exploitation, or activities in which others benefit financially. Human trafficking is a global problem aff
Behind the everyday bargains we all love -- the $10 manicure, the unlimited shrimp buffet -- is a hidden world of forced labor to keep those prices at rock bottom. Noy Thrupkaew investigates human trafficking – which flourishes in the US and Europe, as well as developi...
DMR’s staff is required to read this statement and commit to alert management if to their knowledge any supplier or client violates the slavery and human trafficking laws; they are also asked to check their suppliers and clients in relation to slavery & human trafficking.DMR...
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The Justice Department’s lead federal attorney, Susan French, has over a decade of courtroom experience with the Human Trafficking Unit of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. But French’s “error” not only blew the Aloun F...
82 law enforcement agencies, along with victim advocacy groups, conducted a statewide operation focusing on the rescue of ‘commercially sexually exploited victims and the apprehension of their exploiters.’LOS ANGELES - An anti-human trafficking operation in California resulted in the arrests of 368 ...