Human traffickers may face life sentence under Britain’s tough new slavery bill
Human traffickers may face life imprisonment under a British law passed designed to crack down on modern-day slavery, one of a raft of measures designed to lead the way in combating the $150bn-a-year industry. Read More
What’s lacking in New York’s Anti-Trafficking Legislation?
On October 16th New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into legislation a bill that would protect young victims of trafficking by granting two primary protections: a sealing provision of victim’s records and a decriminalization status of teens who had previously been convicted of a crime as a direct result of being trafficked. The bill has two major oversights: a lack of protection for adults and a lack of consideration of victims and survivors of labor trafficking. Read More
11 years for trafficking charges of the minor girl
Armen (faked name for the prosecuted young man) has been charged eleven years of imprisonment without deprivation of property in compliance to 2nd, 4th and 7th parts of the Article number 132.2 of the criminal code of R.A.
Ignorance or purposely? Both options are unacceptable
An unscheduled session of working group of RA Council for fighting with human trafficking took place on the 7th of April.