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The 1921 Convention set new goals for international efforts to stem human trafficking, primarily by giving the anti-trafficking movement further official recognition, as well as a bureaucratic apparatus to research and fight the problem. The Advisory Committee on the Traffic of Women and Children was a permanent advisory committee of the League.
Not My Life is a documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery.It addresses many forms of slavery, [1] including the military use of children in Uganda, involuntary servitude in the United States, unfree labor in Ghana, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse.
The 114th Congress quickly and vigorously took up the issue of human trafficking, generating twelve bills in the first couple weeks of the new session. [2] The JVTA incorporates provisions from ten of those twelve bills: H.R. 159 (Stop Exploitation of Trafficking Act of 2015), [3] H.R. 181 (Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015), [4] H.R. 246 (To improve the response to victims of ...
Child slavery and human trafficking are global public health concerns with profound risks to life-course trauma and health. Globally, over 50% of child trafficking victims are recruited by family and friends, and children account for 27% of all human trafficking victims happening worldwide, with two out of every three child victims being girls.
Slavery Footprint, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, that works to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery [23] Stop Child Trafficking Now, an organization founded by Lynette Lewis, an author and public speaker [24] Stop the Traffik, a campaign coalition which aims to bring an end to human trafficking worldwide
The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) is a multi-stakeholder initiative providing global access to expertise, knowledge and innovative partnerships to combat human trafficking. [1] UN.GIFT was conceived to promote the global fight on human trafficking, on the basis of international agreements reached at the UN.
Trafficking in Women, Forced Labour, and Slavery-like Practices [3] (1997) - the first worldwide investigation of human trafficking in the context of prostitution, marriage, and domestic labour Human Rights Standards for the Treatment of Trafficked Persons [ 4 ] (1999) - a collection of human rights standards that can be used to protect ...
Trafficking of women and children (and, more rarely, young men) for prostitution is a violation of human rights, but labor trafficking is probably more ´´widespread´´. [ citation needed ] Evidence can be found in field studies of trafficking victims across the world and in the simple fact that the worldwide market for labor is far greater ...