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In The Press: Advocates Say Bay Area Set Precedent In Florida For Tackling Sex Trafficking

Recent high profile illicit massage parlor investigations have renewed attention to law enforcement efforts to focus on penalizing traffickers in an attempt to eliminate exploitation and support survivors of human trafficking. From the Dallas operation suing the building owners, to the Florida operation that yielded high profile arrests of billionaire John Child’s and New England Patriots…

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PORTUGAL TACKLES LABOR TRAFFICKING ON FARMS BUT RESOURCES SCARCE

Models of behavior used by traffickers to recruit and exploit victims are almost identical across the world. Agricultural labor traffickers in Portugal, for example, fraudulently recruit migrant workers from neighboring nations in the same ways labor traffickers exploit migrant workers here in the United States. A Thomson Reuters Foundation human trafficking reporter recently covered official…

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Is R. Kelly A Human Trafficker?

For most of us, human trafficking conjures images of young women being kidnapped by traffickers like in the movie Taken. But, for survivors of R. Kelly, their parents usually knew where they were, and initially, they met with him with stars in their eyes and high hopes for their careers. So, how could his behavior…

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