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The TIP Report on a map based on 2021 data The number of trafficking victims in EU countries in 2022 The Trafficking in Persons Report , or the TIP Report , is an annual report issued since 2001 by the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons .
At just 13 years old, Sara Kruzan became a victim of the human trafficking industry ― forced to be a slave to her abuser, G.G. Howard. Three years later, she killed Howard to escape her plight.
Human trafficking is the modern form of slavery, with illegal smuggling and trading of people, for forced labour or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power of a position of vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation.
The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives calls regarding reporting of human trafficking cases or general questions. In its annual report for 2018, the National Human Trafficking Hotline claims that there were 790 cases of human trafficking in California, which is the highest among all states, with sex trafficking being the leading form ...
Last month, Maj. Michael Stockin, an Army anesthesiologist, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual misconduct stemming from allegations made by more than 40 patients between 2019 and 2022.
Before April 1, 2015, Virginia was the only state in the nation that did not have any standalone human trafficking laws. SB 1188 [220] and HB 1964 [221] were passed on April 1, 2015. They were the first bills in Virginia to define sex trafficking, establish penalties, criminalized child sex trafficking as a Class 3 felony without the need to ...
More Sex & Tech News. Idaho's "abortion trafficking" law can mostly take effect. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has reversed a lower court decisions that blocked enforcement of the law.
Polaris is a nonprofit non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent sex and labor trafficking in North America. The organization's 10-year strategy is built around the understanding that human trafficking does not happen in vacuum but rather is the predictable end result of a range of other persistent injustices and inequities in our society and our economy.