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  • Jharkhand Has Highest Conviction Rate For Human Traffickers: What Is It Doing Right?

    September 06, 2023 |

    The Logical Indian |

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    Response Location: India, Jha

    Jharkhand, India, created an awareness campaign about the laws related to human trafficking that reached all the ranks of the police department, the judiciary, and other relevant state departments. Now, the state has the country’s highest conviction rate for human trafficking.

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  • The money wives in Cross River State

    June 30, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    The Basic Rights Counsel Initiative in Cross River State, Nigeria, teaches women who were forced into marriage and slavery as young girls the skills necessary to start their own businesses and support themselves and their children.

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  • Trafficking Victims Get Help Where It's Needed Most

    May 18, 2023 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Prague

    The L’Chaim initiative consists of a group of volunteers who visit women working in prostitution to build relationships to help these women prevent sex trafficking and to help victims find a way out. During visits, volunteers educate women on their rights, raise awareness of sex trafficking, and help them understand they may be victims and then connect them with appropriate resources, serving as a liaison between “victims” and “rescuers.”

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  • Putting a stop to labor trafficking!

    October 11, 2022 |

    Solutionaries |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The Equal Justice Center helps people who have experienced issues in the workplace like wage theft, labor trafficking and discrimination get justice against their employers.

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  • Domestic Workers in Lebanon Are Making a Dramatic Escape

    January 07, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Lebanon

    Ethiopian domestic workers stuck in Lebanon can now rely on help from an organization started by Ethiopian women who were once in their shoes. Victims of labor exploitation have a hard time escaping abusive situations, leaving them stranded in Lebanon without a place to stay or a means to get home.

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  • The Unlikely Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor and the Instagram Account That Saved Her Life

    August 04, 2021 |

    ELLE Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Greeley, Colorado

    One woman's use of an Instagram account in her personal journey from sex-trafficking victim to sociology researcher enabled new sources of research, teaching, and victim aid. Megan Lundstrom's community of fellow sex workers formed through Instagram became the source for qualitative research into the experiences of sex workers, without being filtered by authorities. That led to the first peer-reviewed journal article of its kind, a new university program in sex trafficking, and the creation of a nonprofit, The Avery Center, aiding victims and collecting data on the industry.

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  • Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations

    May 31, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Alexandria, Virginia

    The Virginia Theological Seminary is giving cash to descendants of Black Americans forced to work there during slavery and Jim Crow. Annual payments, taken from a fund set to grow at a sustainable rate, will go to the closest direct descendant of each Black worker. Fifteen descendants have received payments so far, but that number will likely grow as genealogists continue to search through records. The payments, along with efforts to build relationships with the families, are the Seminary’s way of acknowledging their role in the exploitation and recognizing the contributions of those forced to work there.

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  • Human trafficking operations surrounding the Super Bowl result in dozens of arrests for prostitution

    March 04, 2021 |

    WFTS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Tampa, Florida

    Law enforcement and a private organization, Rahab's Daughters, attacked human sex trafficking at the 2021 Super Bowl in Tampa by tracing leads from tens of thousands of advertisements for sexual services. While the private group says it provided housing, food, and clothing to 40 women, and the police said they identified six trafficking victims and connected them with needed protection and services, far more women were arrested on prostitution charges, along with a handful of men on trafficking charges. Critics say the harm from those arrests can overshadow the benefits from looking for actual victims.

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  • How new technology is helping to identify human rights abuses in the seafood industry

    February 25, 2021 |

    The Counter |

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    Response Location: Ghana

    A growing number of governments, companies, and nonprofit organizations are working together with new technology and data to identify fishing vessels that are breaking laws and engaging in human rights violations. Using satellite imagery and tracking signals, for example, a philanthropic company and a nonprofit worked with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to help the Ghanian navy arrest four vessels for illegal fishing practices. Technology by itself won’t stop forced labor and unregulated ships, but it can be helpful for cash-strapped governments looking to increase oversight of their fisheries.

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  • Anti-human trafficking apps were meant to save lives. They're failing

    February 16, 2021 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

    Since its April 2018 founding in Malaysia, the Be My Protector app has enabled interventions in 120 cases of suspected human trafficking, sparked by anonymous reports that its app enables. In about a third of those cases, which mostly involved migrant workers in South and Southeast Asia, the victims were able to return to their homes, while others were offered counseling. But, like the more than 90 such apps available around the world, Be My Protector has struggled to make a big impact. Many such apps capitalize on a trendy subject without a clear focus on improving conditions and helping victims.

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