ATLANTA VOICE — Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms welcomed a panel of service providers, advocates, and government officials to City Hall to discuss labor exploitation, sexual exploitation and ways to address human trafficking on Sept. 18. […read more]
WASHINGTON, DC (November 7, 2015) – The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Foundation recently announced plans to help victims of human trafficking. During the D.C. Mental Health Counselor’s Association Fall Conference held at Gallaudet University, Kimberly Johnson, the executive director of the NNPA Foundation, gave Read More
(Reuters) – The United States is set to remove Cuba from the bottom tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers, U.S. sources said, in what will be another step in the historic rapprochement between the former Cold War foes. The upgrade would lift Cuba to the so-called “Tier 2 Watch List” Read More
THANYARAT DOKSONE, Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s police chief announced the arrest of a powerful provincial mayor on Friday and said 50 police officers are being investigated in a widening human trafficking scandal spanning four Asian countries. At an urgently called meeting of senior Read More
(Detroit Free-Press) – Law enforcement officials rescued 168 child victims of commercial sex trafficking in a nationwide sweep during the past week and arrested 281 alleged pimps, the FBI said Monday. The recoveries and arrests took place in 106 cities as part of a week-long Read More
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part series on sexual slavery and Black America. It follows a special edition last year that explored the subject. Sex trafficking plagues young Black girls and Read More
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis denounced human trafficking as a crime against humanity Thursday after meeting with four women who were trafficked and forced into prostitution. Francis attended a Vatican conference of church workers, charity representatives and police chiefs from Read More
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News Human trafficking appears to be very much alive and, unfortunately, flourishing across the Caribbean. And that awful fact of life is a reality in countries that range from the largest to the Read More
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