Additionally, even when individuals are aware that human trafficking consists of both labor and sex trafficking, many don't realise that labor trafficking is more prevalent than sex trafficking.
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By getting a better sense of where trafficking is prevalent and who's doing the trafficking, anti-trafficking groups can develop strategies to shut down larger networks — the hubs of human trafficking — as opposed to smaller businesses like massage parlors where some trafficking victims end up.
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Human trafficking takes many forms, including labor and sex trafficking.
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In several goals, we have committed to eradicate human trafficking by 2030, including sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and the use of child soldiers.
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In fact, a much larger proportion of trafficking is labor trafficking.
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Human trafficking and drug trafficking in these communities are closely tied.
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He spoke of the scourge of human trafficking and drug trafficking.
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Rape, human trafficking, and drug trafficking is widespread, the agency says.
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She and Raniere are additionally charged with forced labor conspiracy, attempted sex trafficking, sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy as well as other crimes.
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IHTI: The most common piece of information that we share is that human trafficking doesn't only mean sex trafficking, or sex trafficking of minors.
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Sex trafficking bill The Senate will take up an anti-trafficking bill that would make websites liable for trafficking that occurs on their platforms.
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Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, immigrant survivors of trafficking may qualify for special forms of immigration protection, known as T visas (for trafficking survivors) or U visas (for survivors of certain crimes, including trafficking).
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Human trafficking, especially child sex trafficking, is a horrific crime, and Sens.
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Epstein, for his part, was facing two trafficking charges when he died: sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Today, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 provides federal consequences for trafficking.
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Raniere is charged with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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He faces charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.
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Last year, 7,572 trafficking cases were reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, a rise of 24 percent on 2015, according to the report, with at least 5,550 cases related to sex trafficking and 1,057 to trafficking for forced labor.
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Raniere already faces charges for sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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Human trafficking, and labor trafficking especially, is notable for being under-reported, experts say.
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Epstein was arrested July 6 on charges of sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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Mack has been arrested for sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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"Many violent crimes are driven by drug trafficking and drug trafficking organizations," Sessions wrote.
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Raniere, 58, was found guilty on all seven counts, including racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, forced labor conspiracy, sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and attempted sex trafficking.
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The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives multiple reports of human trafficking in all 50 states each year, according to Polaris, the charity that operates the human trafficking hotline.
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Far more US human trafficking visas are provided to victims of sex trafficking than labor trafficking, even though the latter outweighs the former in sheer number of cases.
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The US Department of State's 2017 Trafficking in Person's report says Cambodia does not fully meet minimum standards for eliminating trafficking, but notes that the Cambodian government has made significant efforts to fight human trafficking, including increasing the number of trafficking convictions.
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U.S. trafficking profile The United States has demonstrated serious and sustained efforts to stop human trafficking by investigating and prosecuting both sex and labor trafficking; providing services to a greater number of trafficking victims and increasing overall funding levels for such services.
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Failed states, complex democratic transitions, demographic transition, which is one of the main challenges facing Africa, it is then the roads of multiple trafficking which also require answers in terms of security and regional coordination, trafficking drugs, arms trafficking, human trafficking, trafficking in cultural property and violent fundamentalism, Islamist terrorism, all this today mixed up, creates difficulties in Africa.
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She walked jurors through the seven crimes he has been charged with: racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, forced labor, sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking and attempted sex trafficking.
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Only by centering and respecting trafficking survivors and experts will we be able to identify potential sex trafficking and integrate this information into finding trafficking victims and prosecuting traffickers.
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The statute that addresses child trafficking — part of the Trafficking Victims law — is designed to reduce the risk that children who are alone will fall victim to human trafficking.
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While the FBI collects data on human trafficking, it doesn't specify where the trafficking occurred.
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" When asked about sex trafficking, Baston replied "I don't even know what sex trafficking is.
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Mack was charged last spring with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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Epstein was arrested on July 6 on charges of sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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He notes that 1,588 trafficking arrests occurred last fiscal year with 1,543 for sex trafficking.
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He was being held on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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Sex-trafficking lawsuits There are new targets in the battle against sex trafficking: hotel chains.
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Thailand denies that trafficking syndicates still flourish, saying it has largely stamped out human trafficking.
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Mack was arrested on sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor charges on Friday.
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"The part of ICE that's gonna survive under Homeland Security is the cross border terrorism, human trafficking, gun trafficking, and drug trafficking," she said, expanding on her view in April.
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The partnership will help educate Uber drivers about some signs of human trafficking and empower them to report any suspected cases of human trafficking to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
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"Women are trafficking women, which is a distinct aspect of this sex-trafficking industry," Keyhan said.
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I actually have had trafficking cases in the past and I didn't recognize it as trafficking.
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He has since been charged with sex trafficking and sex-trafficking conspiracy, and pleaded not guilty.
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But in reality, sex trafficking often doesn't look like the sex trafficking we see in movies.
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He is pleading not guilty the charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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Epstein was arrested last month and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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The anti-trafficking group Polaris, which runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline, also declined its invitation.
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He was charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy in federal court in New York.
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"In fact, what I would do is fund the border security measures that are anti-terrorism, anti-human trafficking, anti-drug trafficking, anti-gun trafficking," she said to CBS in May.
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"We need to be able to fund the part of Homeland Security that's focused on antiterrorism, cross-border crime, anti-gun trafficking, anti-human trafficking and anti-drug trafficking," she said.
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And though it's difficult to know just how many people are involved in sex trafficking in the US, the Polaris Project, a non-profit dedicated to ending human trafficking, received more than 34,000 reports of sex trafficking on its Human Trafficking Hotline between 2007 and 2017.
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He is facing multiple charges, including racketeering, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child and human trafficking.
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More than 5,100 cases of human trafficking were reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline in 2018.
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Some 1.5 million people in the United States are victims of trafficking, according to anti-trafficking groups.
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Raniere, 58, was convicted of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, racketeering, and conspiracy to commit forced labor.
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Raniere has been charged with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, racketeering, and conspiracy to commit forced labor.
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The 11.43-year-old financier was facing federal charges of sex trafficking minors and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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Mack and Raniere have both been charged with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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The Justice Department has alleged that Backpage was a hub for sex trafficking, including trafficking of children.
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" Democrats and human trafficking "Human trafficking is the worst now throughout the world, because of the internet.
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In 22019, Congress approved the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), the centerpiece of U.S. anti-trafficking laws.
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Of the total number of cases, 5,551 reported were for sex trafficking and 1,057 for labor trafficking.
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The nonprofit Polaris operates the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which takes tips on sex and labor trafficking.
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Other sex trafficking cases The deal stands apart from other sex trafficking cases brought under Acosta's watch.
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Prosecutors charged Raniere and Mack with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and conspiracy to commit forced labor.
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Raniere and Mack were charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and forced labor.
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Obama also signed anti-human trafficking legislation in 2015 to provide services and protections for trafficking victims.
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Oriola is an author, human trafficking survivor, and member of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.
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She was charged with trafficking, possession, and delivery of methamphetamine and controlled substance trafficking, among other charges.
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"It's really important for folks to understand that labor trafficking is far more prevalent than sex trafficking," Jessica Emerson, director of the Human Trafficking Prevention Project at the University of Baltimore, told Vox.
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Raniere faces federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child and human trafficking, among others.
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Raniere is facing charges including racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, human trafficking, sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of a child.
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Raniere has been charged with racketeering, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of children, and human trafficking, among other offenses.
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Raniere has been charged with racketeering, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of children and human trafficking, among other offenses.
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The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) was first passed in 2000, establishing human trafficking as a federal crime.
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Last week, federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein with sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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But human trafficking -- sex trafficking, forced labor and other modern forms of slavery -- is not some foreign evil.
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He was held without bail, awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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Mack and Raniere have been charged with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and conspiracy to commit forced labor.
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But while there are fewer people in sex trafficking than in labor trafficking, there's a lot more money.
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"Human trafficking is a problem everywhere, worldwide," Trump said at an anti-trafficking summit at the White House.
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Ray, 60, is charged in an indictment with extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor trafficking, money laundering and more.
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Mr. Unsworth has never in engaged in an act of child sex-trafficking(or adult sex-trafficking). 123.
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Multimillionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was charged in July with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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Speaking on the sidelines of Trust Women, an annual women's right and trafficking conference, trafficking survivor Danuwar said her organization was pushing the government to introduce compensation during its review of anti-trafficking legislation.
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The abolitionists moved into the fight against global labor trafficking in the 1990s, focusing on sex trafficking, though most estimates suggest that the majority of trafficking victims are forced into domestic, agricultural or construction work.
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"The conviction of the first labor trafficking case underscores our commitment to combat human trafficking," said Shirley Lim, a director at Singapore's Ministry of Manpower, adding two other labor trafficking cases were pending in court.
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Lee Busby The border issue I'm talking about is how it's facilitating and supporting human-trafficking and drug trafficking.
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Raniere has pleaded not guilty to charges including racketeering, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child and human trafficking.
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Read: Transgender women at risk of sex trafficking That makes trafficking cases time-intensive for law enforcement, and costly.
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Epstein was arrested on Saturday, related to new federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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Epstein was being held on was being held on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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He provided them with information about drug trafficking, illegal gun trafficking and drug-related slayings, according to the records.
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Second, it was not until 2000 that Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which formally criminalized sex trafficking.
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"These lawsuits demonstrate what we all know: Hotels know about sex trafficking, hotels participate in sex trafficking and hotels make money from sex trafficking," attorney Jonathan Tonge, who represents the four plaintiffs, said in a statement.
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The cult leader was already facing a slew of charges, including sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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The U.S. government's 2014 Trafficking in Persons report documented human trafficking in the fishing and aquaculture sectors of 32 countries.
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Their case was among the 7,621 reported cases of human trafficking reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline in 2016.
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Under Haiti's 2014 anti-trafficking law, those convicted of human trafficking can face from seven years up to life imprisonment.
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January and National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month may be over, but human trafficking happens every day, every year.
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Gravely concerned, sex trafficking survivors and anti-trafficking advocates sent a letter alerting Congress to Big Tech's policy laundering maneuvers.
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It will ensure that survivors of sex trafficking are offered post-conviction relief from criminal charges stemming from the trafficking.
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Human trafficking wasn't illegal until 2000, when the Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed, which made it a federal crime.
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In July, Epstein was charged with one count of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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The new law paves the way for victims of sex trafficking to hold websites accountable for knowingly facilitating sex trafficking.
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Congress recently passed an anti-sex-trafficking bill that holds online platforms liable for hosting content that facilitates sex trafficking.
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Another downside, he says, is it directs funding and responses to sex trafficking, at the expense of overshadowing labor trafficking.
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More than 80% of international human trafficking takes place through official border points, according to the Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative.
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An executive order issued in concert with the summit created a White House trafficking czar position, focused on domestic trafficking.
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The multimillionaire had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Delta said it had trained over 54,000 employees to spot signs of trafficking and pointed to its partnership with anti-trafficking group Polaris, who map all calls to the National Human Trafficking Hotline in the United States.
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It added that Thailand did not "convict officials complicit in trafficking crimes, and official complicity continued to impede anti-trafficking efforts".
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Don't think we're just focused on sex trafficking; we're also going to be very very focused on labor trafficking as well.
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Nxivm founder Keith Raniere is charged with racketeering, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child, and human trafficking, among other offenses.
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The last two decades of the anti-trafficking movement have been a pioneering phase, yielding many proven practices to combat trafficking.
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Jakub Sobik, a spokesman for anti-trafficking group Anti-Slavery International said such cases showed the complexity of dealing with trafficking.
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Both face the same federal charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy and have pleaded not guilty.
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She was arrested in April and pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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Some 1.5 million people in the United States are victims of trafficking, mostly for sexual exploitation, according to anti-trafficking groups.
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He is charged one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.
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Epstein has pleaded not guilty on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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But leading anti-trafficking groups, such as Polaris Project and the International Human Trafficking Institute, say no evidence supports the claim.
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The group's illicit proceeds, which total tens of billions of dollars, are derived from plundering banks, siphoning and trafficking of black market oil, kidnapping for ransom, human trafficking, organ trafficking, and stolen antiquities, according to Western governments and analysts.
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On Wednesday morning, President Trump signed H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which allows victims of sex trafficking to sue companies for allowing content that enables sex trafficking to stay online.
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The number of calls from trafficking victims to the National Human Trafficking Hotline fell 212 percent to 33 last year in Texas, listed by the U.S. government as having the most human trafficking activity alongside New York and California.
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At the Hamilton Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition, Chairwoman Tessa McFadzean welcomed the measure to help break down "systemic" barriers for trafficking victims.
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Epstein is in custody in New York after pleading not guilty Monday to federal charges of sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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Thailand human trafficking The indictment comes months after Thailand received an upgrade in this year's US State Department report on human trafficking.
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Drug trafficking is the 'ndrangheta's most profitable business, relying on deep connections with Latin American trafficking groups such as Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.
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Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical company, reports that you could make twenty times more money from trafficking counterfeit drugs than from trafficking heroin.
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Its passage was immediately met with scrutiny, and sex-trafficking experts said the law negatively impacts both sex workers and trafficking victims.
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Since 2007, the National Trafficking Hotline in the United States has received more than 31,000 reports of trafficking happening in this country.
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Epstein is awaiting trial on one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking.
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In recent years, the number of human trafficking reports have steadily increased, according research and data from the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
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"Human trafficking is pervasive," Fedotov said in prepared remarks ahead of the release of the 333 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons.
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A judge on Thursday denied bail to money manager Jeffrey Epstein, who has been charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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Epstein was arrested in July on federal charges of sex trafficking and sex-trafficking conspiracy, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
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In March, the group's founder, Keith Raniere, was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.
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Human trafficking is chronically under-reported problem that affects at least 20.9 million people globally in both forced labor and sex trafficking.
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Like Hezbollah, other militant groups, drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), human trafficking outfits, and hostile nation-state actors are also competent money launderers.
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In an indictment unsealed on Monday in federal court in New York, he was charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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This happened in the 1980s and '90s as federal officials cracked down on trafficking from the Caribbean; trafficking simply moved to Mexico.
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"The Super Bowl does not increase trafficking, sex buyers increase trafficking," said Nita Belles, founder and executive director of In Our Backyard.
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Epstein, 66, pleaded not guilty in July to federal charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking.
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In June 2019, Raniere was found guilty of sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy, human trafficking, racketeering — including sexual exploitation of a child.
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They say that although the president frequently invokes human trafficking, his administration is actively endangering a significant portion of trafficking victims: immigrants.
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The proposal will come near the 22020th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which officially made human trafficking a federal crime.
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It would also impose liability for knowingly assisting and facilitating online sex trafficking, and allow civil suits related to sex trafficking. Backpage.
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January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness and help prevent human trafficking in our communities.
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Sex trafficking is hugely profitable Snyder said investigators had seized at least $22011 million in assets just from the Florida trafficking ring.
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This potential loss of diplomatic leadership on human trafficking is even more worrying given other gaps in our federal anti-trafficking infrastructure.
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According the US State Department's latest Trafficking In Persons report, last year NAPTIP reported 654 investigations, with 23 convictions for trafficking offenses.
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Those efforts include training law enforcement officials to recognize and combat human trafficking, providing victims with assistance and investigating international trafficking rings.
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The National Human Trafficking Hotline received 7,572 reports of human trafficking in the U.S. last year, an increase from 5,85033 in 2015.
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This happened in the 21995s and '000s as federal officials cracked down on trafficking from the Caribbean; trafficking simply moved to Mexico.
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In 2016 the United States removed Thailand from its list of worst human trafficking offenders, known as Tier 3, following efforts by the military government to fight trafficking in response to international criticism, including through reforms of its anti-trafficking laws.
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Instead, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act requires proper screening of children's asylum and trafficking claims to make sure they are not sent back to gangs or trafficking cartels, said Jennifer Podkul, policy director for Kids in Need of Defense (KIND).
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Bradley Myles of Polaris, the organization that runs a human trafficking hotline, (888) 373-7888, notes that the number of T visas, which are given to trafficking victims, has also dropped, and a housing program for trafficking survivors has been canceled.
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The two sides discussed their security priorities and among other topics, they "talked about cooperation in arms trafficking, money laundering, international drug trafficking and how to deal with transnational crime and international drug trafficking," Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement.
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Other funding supports agencies such as the newly-established Department of Health and Human Services Office on Trafficking in Person, which provides support for trafficking survivors as they escape from their perpetrators, and legal resources to prosecute their trafficking cases.
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EST: President Trump speaks at the White House Summit on Human Trafficking: The 220006th Anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2202.
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Lastly, their Human Trafficking Intervention Court Project provides immigration screenings to potential victims of trafficking who have been arrested for prostitution-related offenses.
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He was charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Epstein was charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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In fact, a jury found Raniere, who was arrested last year, guilty of sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking, forced labor, racketeering, and conspiracy.
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Epstein has pleaded not guilty in the federal criminal case, where he is charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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We must completely overhaul how we identify, investigate, and prevent trafficking so that we can actually reduce the amount of trafficking taking place.
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Epstein is charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Epstein, 66, was indicted this month on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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Human trafficking Trump also repeated one of his regular false claims about how human trafficking cannot be conducted through legal ports of entry.
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Facts First: Many human trafficking victims do indeed come through ports of entry, according to experts on trafficking and according to international data.
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Enacting the END Wildlife Trafficking Act would continue the U.S.' legacy as a global leader in ensuring security against transnational crime and trafficking.
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Sixty-seven victims of trafficking holding J-1 visas called anti-trafficking group Polaris' national hotline from 2015 to 2017, the research said.
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Epstein will remain in custody awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Epstein, a billionaire financier and sex offender, was charged earlier this month with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
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Epstein was arrested on July 6 and charged with one count of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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In July of this year, Epstein was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking.
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The third-term congressman in the last Congress offered the Transnational Drug Trafficking Act, which aimed to further restrict cross-border drug trafficking.
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In the United States nearly 32,000 cases of human trafficking have been reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline in the last decade.
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When the actress was arrested last year, she was also charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and forced labor.
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Epstein was indicted in July on one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors and one count of sex trafficking minors.
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Though US figures can be hard to pin down, 7,255 sex trafficking victims were identified in 2017 by the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
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Numbers meant to look like human trafficking data are circulated, as unverified calls to hotlines are cited, incorrectly, as confirmed cases of trafficking.
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"Adoptions are forbidden in Bangladesh, since a child trafficking scandal in the 80s," explains Arun Dohle, who heads the NGO Against Child Trafficking.
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Jordan is also working on amendments to its anti-human trafficking law and the penal code to strengthen sentences for human trafficking violations.
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"You can find people that practice human trafficking, and they are not conscious that what they are doing is human trafficking," Thelot says.
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Fears about human trafficking, and sex trafficking in particular, were weaponized against sex workers in 2018, when Congress passed the SESTA/FOSTA package.
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This bill breaks new ground by allowing survivors of trafficking the legal power to sue websites that were used to facilitate human trafficking.
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Gifts to help victims of sex trafficking start new lives Experts say there are thousands of sex trafficking victims in the US alone.
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Several prominent anti-trafficking organizations will skip a White House event on fighting human trafficking organized by Ivanka TrumpIvana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpLive coverage: Senators query impeachment managers, Trump defense Trump to ask for M to fight human trafficking, help victims: report Prominent anti-human trafficking organizations to boycott White House event MORE on Friday, citing opposition to the administration's policies.
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Last spring, with support from abolitionists and conservatives (the same coalition from the days of the Bush administration), Congress passed the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, which makes the crime of buying sex from a trafficking victim equivalent to sex trafficking itself.
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The biggest expense in the anti-trafficking movement is victim services, says Pam Strickland, the founder of Eastern North Carolina Stop Human Trafficking NOW.
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In 2016, the Administration convened the first U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, made up of 11 human trafficking survivors appointed by President Obama.
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He has been charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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See, for instance, the yearly "national sex trafficking crackdown" that last year yielded exactly zero sex trafficking arrests, but 473 arrests for soliciting prostitution.
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Though many people immediately think of sex trafficking when they hear human trafficking, forced labor is far more common — and that includes child labor.
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In April, the former Smallville actress was arrested in a case against the organization involving sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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We see a convergence of wildlife trafficking and human trafficking because you have the same people in the middle who move things across borders.
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He has pleaded not guilty to one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.
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Epstein is charged there with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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In the United States, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center said it got reports of more than 4,000 cases of sex trafficking last year.
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Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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The businessman is charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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A major human-trafficking trial in Thailand involving 91 defendants allegedly involved with smuggling gangs that were trafficking Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis, is underway.
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Since Bill Clinton's Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, vast public resources have been made available to groups loosely claiming an "anti-trafficking" agenda.
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The term "trafficking" is innately confusing, and human trafficking is not the same as "human smuggling," which means illegally moving someone across a border.
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Human trafficking is particularly rife in poverty-stricken slums, said Kissmart Bakra, a musician from Mathare and an anti-trafficking ambassador for HAART Kenya.
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Only five percent of the cases and about 100 victims involved labor trafficking, according to the Human Trafficking Institute, a legal and research group.
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This week, the United States kept Thailand on a trafficking watch list saying it did not meet the minimum standards to end human trafficking.
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Last month, the United States kept Thailand on a trafficking watch list, saying it fell short of the minimum standards to end human trafficking.
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About 500 cases of human trafficking involving New York were reported in 2018 to a national hotline run by the anti-trafficking group Polaris.
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President Trump focused on narcotics trafficking and human trafficking as the main issues, characterized in general as 'border security' in his various public announcements.
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Research suggests that legalization would increase the incidence of sex trafficking, and law enforcement officials have no doubt that it would hamper trafficking investigations.
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The above is only a snapshot of our 32-page Global Collaboration Against Human Trafficking Report: Fourteen Principles for Working with Human Trafficking Victims.
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A 2014 study of sex trafficking by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, found 71% of labor trafficking victims entered the US legally.
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Epstein was arrested last month and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking over allegations involving girls as young as 14.
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Epstein pleaded not guilty in the nearby federal court on Monday to one count of sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking conspiracy.
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Domestic work makes up a large percentage of that, and is the largest industry of labor trafficking reports to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
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Online sex trafficking: The House is expected to consider bipartisan legislation on Tuesday that would allow the prosecution of websites that facilitate sex trafficking.
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The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program aims to help coordinate federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement in areas with high drug trafficking.
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Over the last several years, more anti-trafficking groups have spoken out against laws targeting online sex work in the guise of fighting trafficking.
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Governments worldwide carried out 11,096 trafficking prosecutions in 2018 and won 7,481 convictions, according to the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report.
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TMZ broke the story ... LAPD raided his crib back in April in connection with an investigation into human trafficking and trafficking of exotic animals.
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About 11,000 prosecutions of human trafficking were recorded around the world last year, according to the U.S. State Department's most recent human trafficking report.
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The indictment charged Epstein with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Several federal efforts to combat human trafficking in the U.S. have slowed under the Trump administration, according to government data and human trafficking advocates.
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China eased its one-child policy in 2016, but anti-trafficking campaigners say the impact on trafficking and forced marriage will not be immediate.
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Jness is a company founded by Keith Raniere, who along with Mack, is facing charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.
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While we are seeing more efforts in the United States to address sex trafficking, more needs to be done to address labor trafficking as well.
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Some states took just one trafficking case to a final judgment that year, according to the data from the Inter-Ministerial Commission Against Human Trafficking.
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The group's co-founder Keith Raniere was arrested in Mexico in March on federal charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.
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Truckers, survivor fight to combat human trafficking A non-profit group of truckers and human trafficking survivors are raising awareness by placing stickers on trucks.
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Mack has been released on a $5 million bail while she awaits trial for charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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He is charged in New York with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.
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"In Ecuador, there's primarily internal trafficking," said Tomas Guayasamin, the head of the government's anti-trafficking and migrant smuggling prevention group at the interior ministry.
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The 217-year-old is awaiting trial on one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking.
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Epstein, 66, pleaded not guilty to one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Trafficking survivors deserve a fresh start and a future full of possibilities and potential, without the stigma and pain of human trafficking haunting them forever.
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In America, the National Human Trafficking Hotline recorded 7,20153 human trafficking cases reported in 2016, the most -- 1,323 -- coming from my home state of California.
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Last month, Congress passed legislation that makes it easier for state prosecutors and sex-trafficking victims to sue website operators that facilitate online sex trafficking.
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"He was told that he would be taken to jail and they were going to charge him for human trafficking and sex trafficking," Galaxia said.
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In Phoenix, another of the top trafficking jurisdictions in the US, it was estimated that 40% of sex trafficking victims in 2015 were Native American.
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Epstein was arrested last month on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, which prosecutors allege involved girls as young as 14.
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Epstein was charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in July, and had been held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
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He has repeatedly bragged about his work to combat trafficking locally, having served on the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force for a few years.
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Online sex trafficking The House is expected to consider bipartisan legislation on Tuesday that would allow the prosecution of websites that facilitate sex trafficking sales.
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Modern slavery has become a catch-all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, forced marriage and other slave-like exploitation.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigeria's anti-trafficking agency has launched an app called iReport that allows people to report cases of human trafficking in the country.
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Lydia and Judith both strongly encourage people to learn more about domestic labor trafficking and donate to organizations leading the fight against domestic labor trafficking.
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A new Council on Foreign Relations report on the security implications of human trafficking outlines how trafficking can fuel conflict, drives displacement and undermines stability.
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The businessman had been charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Many of them had been accused of crimes such as arms trafficking, drug trafficking and robbery after participating in a large-scale uprising last year.
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Sex trafficking Perhaps the most imminent headache for the tech behemoths is an anti-sex trafficking bill that has garnered bipartisan support in the Senate.
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The Trafficking in Persons annual report cited progress but also problems across the region, especially weak enforcement of protections against trafficking and slave and child labor.
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The most common form of human trafficking in Argentina is women and girls forced into the sex trade, according to the government's anti-trafficking agency, PROTEX.
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Mack pled guilty earlier this month to racketeering conspiracy charges but is still charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and forced labor.
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Lauren Miller, a trafficking expert at the University of Minnesota, reviewed 55 academic papers on the subject and found there was a spike in sex trafficking.
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Arrest warrants were issued Tuesday for Kendra Bey, 27, and Samaria Williams, 23, who face charges of trafficking of a child and receiving compensation for trafficking.
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"There's a crisis right now - ivory poaching and trafficking are really out of control and something has to be done to crackdown on trafficking," Lieberman said.
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The truth is that human trafficking occurs in communities all over the US. Since 2010, January has been designated National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
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Epstein, 66, was arrested in early July after a grand jury in Manhattan indicted him on charges of sex trafficking, and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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The 66-year-old was arrested in early July after being indicted on charges of sex trafficking of underage girls, and conspiracy to commit such trafficking.
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The bottom line: The State Department's anti-human trafficking watchdog has stated that Beijing has not met its minimum standards for the prevention of human trafficking.
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The U.S. State Department said in its latest human trafficking report more work was needed to combat sex and labor trafficking, particularly in Ecuador's coastal cities.
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Of these, the Department of Justice initiated just 282 federal investigations involving human trafficking, and ultimately opened just 266 prosecutions for charges predominantly involving sex trafficking.
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Sex-trafficking: Supporters of a Senate anti-trafficking measure that would create more legal liability for services that post user generated content online are pushing forward.
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The National Human Trafficking Hotline shows most reports of human trafficking are from the border states of California (1,323 in 2016) and Texas (670 in 2016).
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There has been a "complete vacuum in the research space on trafficking and child marriage," said Adrian Phillips of the anti-trafficking group Justice and Care.
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Advocates want to see politicians continue to educate themselves about the difference between sex work and sex trafficking, and acknowledge that decriminalization would not exacerbate trafficking.
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Brexit could hamper Britain's anti-trafficking efforts in myriad ways - from European law enforcement cooperation to child trafficking from France - according to the police and activists.
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At least five civil or criminal trafficking cases involving J-1 workers have been documented in recent years by the Human Trafficking Legal Center, it said.
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Most police, anti-trafficking groups and advocates for sex worker rights agree that victims of sex trafficking and other forms of violence never should be criminalized.
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Minors made up less than 20 percent of 249 domestic and international trafficking victims identified in 2017, said Ecaterina Berejan, head of Moldova's anti-trafficking agency.
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While investigators were focusing on illegal human trafficking, the prosecutor for Kraft's case conceded there was no evidence to substantiate their suspicions that human trafficking occurred.
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Epstein, 66, was arrested last month on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, which prosecutors allege involved girls as young as 14.
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Passing the Abolish Human Trafficking Act inspires a community of compassion for victims of human trafficking—and justly punishes those who coerce and torture the innocent.
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There is no court dedicated to hearing human trafficking cases, and little public education about trafficking and where people should go to report it, said Kandiwal.
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" The resolution asks the Government Accountability Office to "determine the scope of illegal trafficking in tribal cultural items and identify steps required to end such trafficking.
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The U.S. State Department's 2019 Trafficking in Persons report put Malaysia in its penultimate rank - out of four categories - for measures undertaken to fight human trafficking.
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He was charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors, and he had pleaded not guilty to the charge.
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Trafficking hub Nigeria is a source, transit and destination point for many criminal trafficking networks operating in Africa, and the majority of their victims are women.
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However, the Trump administration says this is not an indication of a rise in trafficking but shows that more people are willing to report trafficking cases.
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"Many violent crimes are driven by drug trafficking and drug trafficking organizations," he wrote in a March 8 memo that underscored his scrutiny of the issue.
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McCain has been a longtime advocate for the victims of human trafficking and is currently the co-chair of the Arizona Governor's Council on Human Trafficking.
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It is apparent that this mandate was intended to protect UACs who are trafficking victims, and UACs who come here seeking asylum are not trafficking victims.
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" The aid -- again according to Trump's State Department -- "goes toward fighting crime organizations, drug trafficking, gang violence and human trafficking, while strengthening borders and enhancing security.
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He is expected to be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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Although the indictment does not charge the defendants with sex trafficking crimes — sex trafficking, which involves the prostitution of children and forced prostitution of adults, is legally distinct from prostitution more generally — the official said the case was part of the government's larger efforts to combat trafficking.
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TVPA also created other mechanisms to protect victims of trafficking and target traffickers, including the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP), which produces the report every year, and the T visa, which grants U.S. residency to trafficking victims and their families.
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"The EU has a strong legal framework to fight human trafficking and, together with the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, we work to improve coordination between EU institutions, agencies and States as well as non-EU countries and international actors to prevent and fight trafficking," she said.
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"Organ trafficking is often overlooked in our sector but this heinous crime needs more attention and affects us all," said a spokesman for the Human Trafficking Foundation.
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Vietnam is a major source of human trafficking victims into Britain, the second-highest after Albania, according to Britain's ambassador to Vietnam and anti-human trafficking organizations.
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Epstein, 66, was charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York said.
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"We still see that Nigerians coming to Europe are very vulnerable for human trafficking; in particular women," said Suzanne Hoff of European anti-trafficking charity La Strada.
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Mack has been living at her parents' California home since late April, when she was arrested on sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy charges.
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The judge said that while the case was "not an archetypal sex trafficking action, the allegations plausibly establish" that Weinstein violated the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
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It rakes in an estimated $150 billion worldwide every year, coming in as one of the largest illegal trades alongside drug trafficking, arms trade and wildlife trafficking.
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That means criminals weren't being arrested, child predators weren't being arrested, victims of child trafficking and sex trafficking weren't being rescued, drug traffickers weren&apost being arrested.
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According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the most common form of human trafficking (79%) is trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation.
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Malaysia is fighting human trafficking with programs to identify and prevent trafficking, prosecute those responsible, and by protecting those who are brought to our country under duress.
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Operated by the Washington-based anti-trafficking group Polaris, the hotline provides support for survivors and last year handled nearly 8,800 reported sex and labor trafficking cases.
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Any time a person is exploited for labor — which can mean anything from sex trafficking to domestic servitude — through force, fraud, or coercion, that's considered human trafficking.
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Read: Vets hunt child predators Read: Trafficking survivor who smashed triathlon record Read: Transgender women at risk of sex trafficking "This represents everything for me," Delgado said.
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The U.S. Congress this year passed two bipartisan anti-trafficking bills aimed at making it easier to prosecute owners and operators of websites that facilitate sex trafficking.
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"One of the things the anti-trafficking legislation has done is bring federal money under the anti-trafficking laws," explains sex worker and CUSP activist Maxine Doogan.
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Cogan instructed the jurors that if a drug cartel member was murdered for "wholly personal" reasons unrelated to drug trafficking, it was not a drug trafficking crime.
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Last year Uruguay updated its anti-human trafficking law and action plan, and formed a new national committee this year as part of its anti-trafficking efforts.
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Epstein is now being held without bail on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
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Due to our state's shared border, critical issues including economic growth, cartel drug trafficking and illicit firearms trafficking, and immigration were at the forefront of our discussions.
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Ecpat-USA and Altruvistas have run two similar anti-trafficking advocacy trips to Thailand, home to a vibrant sex market fed in large part by human trafficking.
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Susan Munsey escaped from a life of sex trafficking and in 2009 started GenerateHope, a group that provides housing, therapy and more to survivors of sex trafficking.
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Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges earlier this month after being accused of leading a sex trafficking operation shuttling underage girls from 2002 to 2005.
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The House this year passed legislation known as the Put Trafficking Victims First Act, which would direct the attorney general to study issues relating to human trafficking.
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Financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday on charges of sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy, and he pleaded not guilty in court in New York on Monday.
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She was rescued in 2016 by the Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF), an anti-human trafficking group, after two years of isolation and abuse.
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Regulatory enforcement actions often feature specific language indicating that banks aided and abetted terrorism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking by failing to detect and report illicit activity.
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Concerns about trafficking are exactly why there are special provisions in the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which was a bipartisan law signed by a Republican president.
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Jamie Christopher St. Denis, 38, already pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine, trafficking a firearm, and possession of an illegal firearm, and has been sentenced to seven years.
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Using the app, citizens can alert local authorities on human trafficking incidents, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said in a statement.
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The group estimates that the nationwide number is in the hundreds of thousands when estimates of adults and minors and sex trafficking and labor trafficking are aggregated.
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Conflating prostitution and sex trafficking "results in actual policies and legislation that impact workers in very negative ways, in the guise of anti-trafficking laws," he said.
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Although women and girls make up the majority of trafficking victims, women comprise nearly 30 percent of convicted perpetrators of human trafficking, according to the United Nations.
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According to reports, Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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She became a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador to Combat Human Trafficking in 2009 and has traveled globally to push for laws against human trafficking and support for survivors.
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It also calls for the Indian government to increase prosecutions and convictions for all forms of trafficking and fully resource anti-human trafficking units in all districts.
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The National Human Trafficking Hotline estimates that about 8,500 cases of human trafficking were reported in 2017, an increase of nearly 1,000 cases from the year before.
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He had been accused of running a sex trafficking ring of underage girls and had pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking of minors.
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About 80 percent of human trafficking victims passed through official ports of entry, according to a decade's worth of data collected by the Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative.
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State Attorney Dave Aronberg of Palm Beach County, whose office leads a human trafficking task force with the F.B.I., said trafficking foreigners to work in places like massage parlors can be more difficult to root out than trafficking, for example, American girls who are recruited in person or online.
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Polaris, which runs the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, said its study was based on the largest amount of data gathered on human trafficking in the United States.
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It is estimated that human trafficking generates many billions of dollars of profit per year, second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable form of transnational crime.
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Brexit could hamper Britain's anti-trafficking efforts in myriad ways - from fair wages in global supply chains to child trafficking from France - according to the police and activists.
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In states like Alaska, which passed sex trafficking legislation in 2012, most prostitution charges have become felonies, and sex workers have even been charged with essentially trafficking themselves.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Smallville actress Allison Mack was arrested on Friday in connection with a case involving sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy.
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Fiorini joined forces with Deborah Sigmund, founder of a nonprofit organization that fights child exploitation and human trafficking, to educate airline employees and create a human trafficking hotline.
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Their claim was based on the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which applies to anyone who "knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value" from human trafficking.
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In an email to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Colombia's interior ministry, tasked with combating human trafficking, said there were "concerns" that Venezuelan women could become victims of trafficking.
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The president will address the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, a Cabinet-level entity charged with monitoring the government's efforts to prevent trafficking.
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They not only are involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking, prostitution, they commit murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, any penal law crime you can figure out they&aposve committed.
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More cases of human trafficking were reported in California than in any other U.S. state last year, according to data from the National Human Trafficking Resource Center's hotline.
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Normally, a sex trafficking case would be prosecuted only by the Human Trafficking Coordinators, who are part of the Violent and Organized Crime Unit that I once supervised.
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And this is because drug trafficking networks have the same hierarchies as human trafficking networks: Men occupy the highest levels, and women are exposed to the judicial system.
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Wearing dark blue jail scrubs, Epstein entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman to one count of sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking conspiracy.
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Sexual exploitation is the most commonly identified form of human trafficking (79% of cases or 4.5 million people), according to a UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons.
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One fact sheet shows that, between 2007 and 2015, there were 1,434 documented incidents of hotel-based trafficking, finding that 92 percent of cases involved sex trafficking specifically.
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"It means the trafficking victim doesn't have to take the stand and testify about the horrific experiences," said Dorchen Leidholdt of Sanctuary for Families, an anti-trafficking group.
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This month, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced important new federal legislation, The Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2016, to expunge the records of survivors of sex trafficking like Macy.
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Becca Stevens: Fighting human trafficking Nearly 20 years ago, Becca Stevens set out to help the women of Nashville who have been scarred by prostitution, addiction and trafficking.
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Epstein was found dead in an apparent suicide two days earlier while being held in federal jail on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, was placed on suicide watch after he was found unconscious with bruises on July 23.
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He has pleaded not guilty, and is charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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The campaign then spoke with anti-trafficking lawyers and representatives of trafficking victims who agreed that the law was ultimately harmful to those the bills seek to protect.
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The crackdown at Tumblr is partly because of FOSTA-SESTA, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Stop Online Sex Trafficking Act, passed by Congress in March.
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Countries across Latin America are shutting down borders and preventing air travel, which is likely to significantly disrupt criminal economies like drug trafficking, contraband smuggling and human trafficking.
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Prosecutors file motion to dismiss indictment Epstein had been charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking.
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He had pleaded not guilty in the case, where he faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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The charges were later upgraded to rape and human trafficking, according to the Tamaulipas state's attorney's office, in order to prosecute Miranda under Mexico's 2012 human trafficking law.
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Still, wildlife trade is a big business, and the seller CNN spoke with was likely part of a larger trafficking ring, according to law enforcement and trafficking experts.
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Lawyers and campaigners said the conflation of smuggling and trafficking meant some state resources intended for trafficking victims were being spent on migrants who had not been exploited.
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Bradley Myles, chief executive officer at the Polaris Project, which tracks trafficking in the U.S., argued that full decriminalization would not act as an effective deterrent for trafficking.
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"The success of our awareness program against trafficking was astounding," said an official who declined to be named from West Bengal, a common destination for Indian trafficking victims.
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But this year, most of the country's major anti–human trafficking groups, including the largest network of organizations that directly serve survivors of trafficking, were not in attendance.
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Right now, U.S. diplomats are meeting with countries in the lead-up to the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, which ranks countries on their anti-trafficking efforts.
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In its TIP report last month, the State Department said Thailand did not "convict officials complicit in trafficking crimes" and official complicity continued to impede anti-trafficking efforts.
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"For the first time it moved away from just sex trafficking and recognized trafficking for labor, begging and marriage as offences," said Nair, who helped draft the legislation.
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The US National Human Trafficking Hotline found hotels and motels to be a common venue for sex trafficking, with nearly 10 percent of known trafficking cases reported to them in 2016 taking place in a hotel or motel -- although Polaris, which operates the hotline, believes the real figure is much higher.
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Last month, President Obama appointed me to the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, which is tasked with reviewing and recommending policy and programs on human trafficking, reporting to senior administration and agency officials, and submitting a report to the President's Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
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In central Africa, the report warned the "lack of an inter-ministerial coordinating body and low understanding of anti-trafficking laws among government officials continued to hinder countrywide efforts to address internal trafficking and sex trafficking from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries" into the Republic of Congo.
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"You go back 6900,2628 years, where you think of human trafficking, you go back 28503 years, 22019 years, 100 years, human trafficking, they say — think of it, what they do — human trafficking is worse now, maybe, than it's ever been in the history of this world," Trump said last July.
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This means that online platforms would be criminally liable when they do not actually know that sex trafficking is going on—much less intend to assist in sex trafficking.
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He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children, three counts of sex trafficking of children and one count of sexual exploitation of children.
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Victoria L. Everett, 34, owner and operator of "Tori's Playhouse," was charged with trafficking in marijuana by possession and trafficking in heroin by possession, among other charges, police say.
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You know this just as I do, they do so much great work on sex trafficking, human trafficking, they assist in the breaking up of these cartel, narcotics operations.
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While the recommendations cover all forms of human trafficking, three specifically target the Department of Labor's (DOL) approach to combating labor trafficking -- the form of modern slavery I endured.
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Removing barriers The report's second labor trafficking-related recommendation calls on the U.S. Congress and the DOL to remove barriers that keep trafficking survivors from accessing employment assistance programs.
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In recent years, groups like Truckers Against Trafficking have taken steps to train truckers on how to identify and report truck stop prostitution, which often entails trafficking underage girls.
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Yet, the voices of those who have experienced some of the worst abuse - trafficking victims - have not been heard, said Sunitha Krishnan, founder of the anti-trafficking charity Prajwala.
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However, according to the 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, governments and other sources only reported identifying 85,85033 victims of trafficking in 2018 — significantly less than the UN estimated.
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Our organization takes a holistic approach to combating human trafficking, so at any given time we are working to address both labor and sex trafficking both domestically and abroad.
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With no convictions since amending its anti-trafficking law in 2169, the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons report last year downgraded Ireland from Tier 2172 to Tier 212.
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There are more slaves today than any other time in human history: Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world, second only to drug trafficking.
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Trafficking fears Many primates arrive at private Middle East zoos through illegal means, said Cress, whose organization now plans to carry out an investigation into trafficking in the region.
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Epstein, 66, was indicted earlier this month by a federal grand jury in New York City on charges of child sex trafficking, and conspiracy to commit child sex trafficking.
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There tends to be less public awareness in the United States of labor trafficking, such as cases involving child laborers or domestic workers, than of sex trafficking, Bouchard said.
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As of September 2015, the latest data available, Polaris' National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received 16,678 tips regarding potential trafficking victims; of those, 4,20153 cases have been verified.
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A jury convicted him of drug trafficking and engaging in multiple murder conspiracies as the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's largest, most violent drug-trafficking organizations.
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Of the 621 preliminary cases of human trafficking brought forward in Mexico in 2014, only 156 resulted in a conviction, which means many trafficking victims do not get justice.
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We believe that anti-trafficking efforts must be comprehensive in their scope, addressing labor and sex trafficking of all workers regardless of their nationality, gender, age or sexual orientation.
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Roberts is one of more than 80 women to accuse the financier of sexual abuse and sex trafficking, as he was charged last week with sex trafficking and conspiracy.
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This raises concerns of government participation in potential child trafficking or other abusive situations, and would likely constitute a violation of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.
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The FBI has ruled out human trafficking after Hawaiian Airlines flight attendants reported three young girls on a recent flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu as potential trafficking victims.
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As a prosecutor, she aggressively targeted sex workers, and as senator has promoted anti-trafficking legislation critics say conflates trafficking with sex work and infringes on the First Amendment.
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In Tennessee, where Cyntoia Brown and I both live, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation identified sex trafficking in 2018 as the second fastest growing crime (just behind drug trafficking) .
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In July, Epstein was charged with one count of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, accused of abusing underage girls as young as 14.
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Faced with international outrage — and the lowest ranking on the State Department's 2015 Trafficking in Persons report — the Thai government suddenly cracked down on trafficking rings in the region.
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Like the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which passed last year and immediately started hurting sex workers, this bill is written under the guise of combating human trafficking.
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The National Human Trafficking Hotline, which is operated by Polaris, maintains what is considered one of the most extensive data sets related to human trafficking in the United States.
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With estimated total revenues of up to $22008 billion a year, wildlife trafficking is now considered the world's fourth-most-profitable criminal trade after drugs, weapons and human trafficking.
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"I would say that the people that are advocating to decriminalize the full sex trade have not meaningfully consulted with sex trafficking organizations or sex trafficking survivors," he said.
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Madre de Dios has had 22 convictions for human trafficking since 2017, mostly involving the sexual exploitation of children, according to Saavedra, who has about 100 trafficking cases pending.
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Yet, how can we ask other countries to make policy changes and fund implementation of anti-trafficking programs if we can't even reauthorize the cornerstone U.S. legislation on trafficking?
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The legislation calls for special courts to expedite trafficking cases, and a rehabilitation fund to provide victims with legal aid, counseling and quick repatriation in cross border trafficking cases.
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Elaine Andino, a spokeswoman for United Against Human Trafficking, which works with Houston-area groups to end human trafficking, said that echoed what she had heard from the authorities.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department's annual human trafficking report released on Thursday demoted Saudi Arabia and Cuba to countries that failed to meet minimum U.S. anti-trafficking standards.
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Abbi Tenaglia, the founder of an anti-trafficking organization, Transforming Hope Ministries, further notes that South Carolina would be spending money in order to earn money for anti-trafficking efforts.
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That means criminals weren&apost being arrested, child predators weren&apost being arrested, victims of child trafficking and sex trafficking weren&apost being rescued, drug traffickers weren&apost being arrested.
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The very people who keep our country safe -- ICE has been directly responsible for stopping human trafficking, stopping -- saving some of these kids that are being exploited from human trafficking.
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Bangladesh was recently downgraded to a Tier 2 "Watch List" country in the U.S. State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, reflecting increased concerns about government efforts to combat trafficking.
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Despite these efforts, there are just two prosecutors working on sex trafficking cases across the country, and the number of trafficking convictions in Guatemala remains low, the U.N. report said.
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Those changes include clarity that criminal charges are based on violations of federal human trafficking law and that a standard for liability requires a website "knowingly" assisting of facilitating trafficking.
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The website also criticized the U.S. State Department&aposs Trafficking in Persons Report 2018, which included North Korea among the tier 3 countries with the worst standards in human trafficking.
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Epstein, who was a former friend of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, was accused by federal prosecutors in New York of sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking conspiracy.
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The Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 203 would have made gun trafficking and straw purchases — buying a firearm with the intention of giving it to someone else — a federal crime.
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Don't worry about the actual name, the "ST" in both acronyms stands for "sex trafficking", and the law makes online firms liable if users are engaged in sex-trafficking crimes.
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Authorities arrested 56 suspected traffickers and carried out 52 anti-trafficking operations in 2016, up from 10 in 2015, according to the U.S. State Department's 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report.
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"We need to be proactive and focus on prevention to break the cycle of trafficking," said Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, the founder and head of the Manila-based anti-trafficking charity.
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The U.S. State Department upgraded both West African nations in its 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, which sorts countries into three tiers based on their efforts to fight trafficking.
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From 2001 to 2010, almost $1.5 billion US taxpayer dollars went to the global anti-trafficking fight, and in 2014 the government distributed $18 million to groups fighting sex trafficking.
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Yet trafficking shelters are not entitled to this cash, and any violence shelter that takes in a trafficking victim can have its funding taken away, according to several shelter directors.
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"Ride sharing services like Uber have a significant role to play in disrupting human trafficking and helping survivors to find freedom," said Bradley Myles, head of anti-trafficking organization Polaris.
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In another high-profile case, Alaskan sex worker Amber Batts was convicted of running a sex trafficking ring and sentenced to five years for sex trafficking in the second degree.
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Return to the epicenter The CNN Freedom Project first spoke with Sephak in 2013, along with other child trafficking victims, as part of a documentary on sex trafficking in Cambodia.
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"The common enemy is drug trafficking and that's why the idea is to fight drug trafficking not just with closer security but also socially," Peace Commissioner Miguel Ceballos told journalists.
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Allegations of trafficking for 'money and medals' The lawsuit seeks relief under Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act, which includes the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
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This legislation will allow prosecutors to bring charges against entities who violate the existing federal trafficking statute, and will also permit victims of trafficking to bring actions for civil remedies.
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Most other trafficking survivors do not receive even a fraction of the critical support and care I've received, but looking at trafficking through a public health lens could change that.
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Girls account for 226% of all trafficking victims detected globally, according to the 22018 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, produced by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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Since 2007, more than 49,000 cases of human trafficking in the US have been reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which receives an average of 150 calls per day.
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While immigration benefits —T visas for trafficking victims and U visas for victims of violent crime — exist for victims of trafficking and violent crime, these are increasingly out of reach.
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New York financier Jeffrey Epstein appeared in court Monday after his arrest Saturday night on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
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"My life's calling is to help end human trafficking, and I'm so proud that it was Heidi Heitkamp's law that shut down the trafficking websites," Jude says in the ad.
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Giuffre's allegations against Andrew resurfaced over the summer after Epstein was arrested and charged in New York in June with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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" It led to "this supreme hypersexualization, and all this funding being put into sex trafficking … and putting labor trafficking aside as this undesirable thing, because mostly we see undocumented folks.
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Federal prosecutors initiated only 171 human trafficking cases last year, substantially fewer than the 241 in 2017 or the 223 in 2016, according to the Federal Human Trafficking Report series.
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However, trials are often drawn out and trafficking survivors' rights to benefits like cash compensation, housing, and free education for children are often ignored or denied, say anti-trafficking activists.
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And for Spellman, candidates who want to fight trafficking should be backing policies, like a universal basic income, that help people meet their needs so they aren't vulnerable to trafficking.
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The television station said Mr. Epstein was arrested under a sealed federal indictment and charged with one count of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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The television station said Mr. Epstein was arrested under a sealed federal indictment and charged with one count of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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Yes, but: Trafficking convictions are still rising — although that could include some cases that began during the Obama administration, said Susan French, a former federal prosector for human trafficking cases.
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DOJ "continues to prioritize fighting violent crime, including human trafficking," , and remains "deeply committed to securing restitution for victims and survivors of human trafficking," DOJ spokesman Peter Carr told Axios.
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The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project has published a critical report on West Asian antiquities trafficking taking place more or less out in the open on Facebook.
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Below are some of the good, bad and ugly stories on human trafficking from 2016: Law enforcement agencies identified labour trafficking as their biggest challenge, shifting focus from victims of sex trafficking to the labour agents cheating tens of thousands of men and women and sending them to work in abusive environments.
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It marked the beginning of her nearly two-year service as de facto head of U.S. anti-trafficking efforts—only in late 2018 did someone finally fill the highest anti-trafficking position in federal government, the ambassador-at-large to monitor and combat trafficking in persons, which is mandated by the TVPA.
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Washington (CNN)The Senate voted Wednesday to approve an anti-sex-trafficking bill that would allow victims of sex trafficking to seek justice against online platforms that knowingly facilitate the act, a move that prosecutors, victims and anti-trafficking activists are heralding as an essential step in cracking down on the crime.
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North Korea has remained at the report&aposs lowest ranking, tier 3, for years due to its use of forced labor and state-sponsored human trafficking and "negligible" anti-trafficking efforts.
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The 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report said Thailand reported more investigations, prosecutions and convictions of trafficking cases but it did not demonstrate "increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period".
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Some 1,496 potential trafficking victims are being held in nine government shelters, awaiting trial or repatriation, according to the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, which oversees anti-trafficking efforts.
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Raniere, 58, is on trial in Brooklyn federal court facing charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, racketeering, and conspiracy to commit forced labor, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
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He later began trafficking drugs across the US border and gradually built a profile in a trafficking group known as the Sinaloa federation for his brutal use of violence against rivals.
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"I knew that street gangs, prison gangs and cartels took over drug trafficking in the 1980s and then they took over sex trafficking at the turn of the century," said Travers.
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The United States has plenty of existing laws targeting sex trafficking, but we fail to consistently enforce them, such as when courts fail to mandate financial restitution to sex trafficking victims.
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Kokunre Eghafona, a professor of sociology at the University of Benin who researches human trafficking, said the Oba's curse was not stopping but just changing patterns in the sex trafficking trade.
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Daniela shared her harrowing account in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, where Raniere is standing trial on charges including racketeering, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of children and human trafficking, among other offenses.
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"The DOJ already has all the power and permission it needs to prosecute trafficking sites and other bad actors like notorious sex trafficking website Backpage," NetChoice said in a press release.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has stepped up prosecutions for human trafficking and hopes its status will be upgraded in the annual U.S. Trafficking in Persons report, the foreign minister said on Thursday.
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Prosecutors in New York recently charged Jeffrey Epstein, the multi-millionaire fund manager with ties to elites across politics, finance, and media, with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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Trump said on July 9 that he "wasn't a fan" of Epstein, who was arrested on July 6 on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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SENATE COMMERCE TAKES ON SEX TRAFFICKING BILL: The Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday took up a controversial online sex-trafficking bill, hearing testimony from victims' families who urged lawmakers to act.
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Her mother is also the chief executive of Counter Human Trafficking Compliance Solutions, a company in New York that helps corporations ensure that they are following regulations to impede human trafficking.
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"It's not just involving separating the families -- we're trying to secure our borders to stop the drug trafficking, the sex trafficking and I think it goes a little deeper," she said.
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Despite the administration's occasional rhetoric about protecting survivors of trafficking, the brutal fact is that indiscriminate targeting of undocumented immigrants, including trafficking survivors, has sown chaos and fear in immigrant communities.
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January 8, 2018: S.1532 - No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act This law permanently disqualifies those who have committed a felony involving human trafficking from operating a commercial motor vehicle.
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Beyond Enforcement and Removal Operations is the lesser-known Homeland Security Investigations, which pursues criminals and terrorists involved in drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, human trafficking, cybercrime, financial crimes and identity fraud.
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Advocates for the bill—a mashup of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA)—claim that it will help curb sex trafficking online.
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Earlier this year former Smallville actress Allison Mack, another senior member of the organization, was arrested and charged with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy, as was Raniere.
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I've done human trafficking ... I did a human trafficking story in Cambodia and Fox put it on the Fox Business Channel, which I'm grateful for, and the viewers don't watch it.
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After a series of critical Miami Herald stories, Epstein was charged last month with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking.
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They are among a number of social media, tech and e-commerce companies joining the WWF's Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online, pledging to reduce online trafficking by 80% by 2020.
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According to Polaris, a nonprofit organization that operates the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, 10,949 cases of human trafficking were reported in 2018, a 25 percent jump from the year before.
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Katariina Rosenblatt, a sex trafficking survivor who was held captive between the ages of 13 to 17, now assists law-enforcement agencies and works to free other victims of human trafficking.
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In 2015, the police broke what they called the biggest antiquities trafficking case since 1949, arresting 175 people across six provinces for stealing and trafficking objects worth an estimated $80 million.
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Governments around the world carried out 803,096 trafficking prosecutions in 2018 and won 7,481 convictions, according to estimates compiled in the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report by the U.S. State Department.
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While there are no official law enforement statistics, in the United States nearly 853,000 cases of human trafficking have been reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline in the last decade.
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Speaking at a joint Thomson Reuters-Atlantic Council conference in October, Big Data, Bad Actors, leaders in the anti-trafficking space warned that systematic data about trafficking remains a significant challenge.
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The other measure, the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act, would create an advisory committee on the issue and designate a "human trafficking prevention coordinator" at the Department of Transportation.
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To this effect, it is clear that any anti-trafficking advocate who opposes this legislation is misguided, as decriminalizing sex workers will undoubtedly bring sex trafficking victimizations out of the shadows.
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The lawsuit came months after the U.S. Congress passed the bipartisan anti-trafficking bills called Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, collectively known as SESTA-FOSTA.
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Just last year, lawmakers passed a bill aimed at stopping online sex trafficking, dubbed FOSTA-SESTA for short, which made tech companies liable for "knowingly" promoting sex trafficking on their platforms.
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The lawsuit came months after the U.S. Congress passed the bipartisan anti-trafficking bills called Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, collectively known as SESTA-FOSTA.
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" After they keep walking, Lohan says, "They're trafficking children.
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