The Washington Times: Portland’s dark world of child sex trafficking
Portland, Ore., is widely featured as a young, green, hip city; it also has gained a reputation as a national hub for child sex trafficking.
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USA TODAY: Airbnb expands pledge to fight human trafficking amid hospitality industry struggles
Airbnb is expanding its commitment to fight human trafficking with anti-trafficking nonprofit Polaris as the hospitality industry faces a series of lawsuits claiming it’s not doing enough to curb the crime.
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PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: The Research on Child Sex Trafficking
Worldwide, there are over 40 million people in slavery. Never before in human history have this many people been enslaved. Modern day slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry generating an estimated $150 billion annually.
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THE WEEK: Councillors and police ‘had sex’ with Rotherham abuse victims
Sordid allegations emerge as council is branded ‘not fit for purpose’ by inspectors
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Only the exploiter is guilty, not the child or his parent: Davit Tumasyan
On February 11 the Constitutional Court on Armenia will decide on the issue of compliance with the Constitution of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Violence signed in Lanzarote.
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IC RA: Preliminary Investigation of Criminal Case initiated on Trafficking of Two and more Persons with Prior Agreement Completed
In the result of comprehensive investigation conducted in the Department of Investigation of Crimes on Human Trafficking, against Sexual Immunity of Juveniles and Illegal Turnover of Drugs of General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee circumstances of trafficking of two and more persons committed with prior agreement were found out. Charge was pressed against two residents of Yerevan – spouses.
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CBC: Don’t mix up sex work and sex trafficking, advocates for workers say
‘Sex work is consensual. Human trafficking is not,’ one advocate says․
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NBC News: U.N. Report: Vatican Policies Allowed Priests To Rape Children
The United Nations heavily criticized the Vatican on Wednesday for what it said was a systematic adoption of policies allowing priests to rape and sexually abuse tens of thousands of children.
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REUTERS: Trump signs law to punish websites for sex trafficking
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at penalizing website operators that facilitate online sex trafficking and chipping away at a legal protection for the technology industry.
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International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2 December
Facts and figures:
- An estimated 40.3 million people are in modern slavery, including 24.9 in forced labour and 15.4 million in forced marriage.
- There are 5.4 victims of modern slavery for every 1,000 people in the world.
- 1 in 4 victims of modern slavery are children.
- Out of the 24.9 million people trapped in forced labour, 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture; 4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation, and 4 million people in forced labour imposed by state authorities.
- Women and girls are disproportionately affected by forced labour, accounting for 99% of victims in the commercial sex industry, and 58% in other sectors.