human traffickingmedianewspapervictimsThe news media can play a significant role in shaping public perceptions of social problems. One of these, human trafficking, has attracted increasing media attention since the early 2000s. This article builds on earlier work with a content analysis of articles ...
Beginning of article Byline: By Jessica Shepherd A fish and chip shop magnate who headed the British end of an international human trafficking ring has been jailed for four years after admitting breaking immigration controls. Balwinder Singh Chatha (45) was arrested in October 2003 when ...
A human trafficking indictment released on Nov. 22, 2021 on the website of U.S. Department of Justice documents that dozens of workers from Mexico and Central American countries have been smuggled to farms in the southern part of the state of Georgia, where they were illegally imprisoned under...
and Human Traffickers Have Been Warned; It Is the Second-Largest Illegal Trade in the World, Affecting 21 Million People - and It Is Happening on Your Doorstep. So Why Do We Know So Little about Human Trafficking? Clare Hutchinson Reports....
The article reflects on the need of laws in order to prevent human trafficking in the U.S. state Louisiana, as of September 2014. Topics discussed include general information regarding human trafficking in the country, changes to Louisiana's legislative framework made during the 2014 legislative se...
Online news platforms and social media increasingly influence the public agenda on social issues such as human trafficking. Yet despite the popularity of online news and the availability of sophisticated tools for analyzing digital texts, little is known about the relations between news coverage of hum...
The criminalization of human trafficking has been a primary anti-trafficking response by nations around the world. Despite the promise of laws designed to promote the prosecution of human trafficking crimes, global reports indicate small numbers of prosecuted offenders. This chapter examines the numerous...
This was the first occasion when the Court of Appeal has considered the problem of child trafficking for labour exploitation. It has not previously been subject to any close analysis following the coming into force in 2005 of the European Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings ....
and in 2007 enacted the Mexican Law to Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons. Article 10 of this law defined trafficking in persons as “any act or intentional omission of one or several persons to capture, engage, transport, transfer, retain, deliver, receive, or accommodate one or more...
The resolution calls on Myanmar and Bangladesh authorities to tackle forced prostitution, human trafficking, sexual violence, child marriage, partner violence and sexual exploitation and abuse in refugee camps. It also stress the importance of providing adequate education to children living in camps, in...