BBC: Human trafficking: Modern-day slaves ‘within plain sight’
By Gwyneth Rees, BBC Wales News
The rugged landscape of north Wales is not a place usually associated with modern-day slavery.
Yet for some victims, its remote location has become a refuge.
Sophie – not her real name – has a tragic but not unique tale.
The world has 21 million slaves – and millions of them live in the west
Between 2003-2011, 2,700 charcoal camp workers in Brazil were liberated from conditions akin to slavery. Seven percent of slaves live in North America or the EU, but the problem is global. We must invest in protocols that work to fight trafficking and exploitation.
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10 ways to recognize modern slavery
One of the biggest obstacles to tackling modern slavery is that it’s often hiding in plain sight. To better understand how that happens, here is a list of ten situations, whish suggests 50forfreedom.org blog to recognize that people are in forced labour.
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Child trafficking: what are we really talking about?
The moral panic over child trafficking detracts from important questions about children and childhood, the state, and immigration. We worry about child trafficking, but what exactly is it? Read More
The scars of modern slavery: trafficked people with severe mental illness
The phenomenon of human trafficking, the exploitation of one human by another, takes place across the globe and predominately targets women and children, writes an NIHR Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry and a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry in the department of Children’s Psychological Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Mina Fazel, who presented recently a research “Characteristics of trafficked adults and children with severe mental illness: a historical cohort study” to the #AntiSlaveryDay (This Day falls on 18th of October in UK as another opportunity to host events aimed at drawing attention to the issues of human trafficking and slavery). Read More
Trafficking in Human Beings in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situation – CARITAS Research
The research action titled “Trafficking in Human Beings in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations” has been carried out by Caritas France/ Secours Catholique through its international partner organizations’ network including “Armenian Caritas” BNGO.
Superior Honour Award to Maritsa Hovhannisyan for significant contribution in the fight against trafficking
On September 23 International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Program Team hosted a reception to celebrate Armenia’s counter- TIP achievements and encourage the TIP Working Group to continue its vigorous fight against this evil.
America’s Child Sex Trafficking Victims Would Be Safer Testifying Against the Mafia a State of Emergency
In recent years, street gangs have taken control of America’s child sex trafficking, reports HuffingtonPost. Read More
IOM, Police College train Ethiopian human trafficking investigators
IOM and the Ethiopian Police University College (EPUC) have jointly organized a five-day training of trainers on the investigation of human trafficking cases in Ethiopia. Read More