THEME 2022 “Use and Abuse of Technology” This year’s theme focuses on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking. With the global expansion in the use of technology - intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of our everyday life to online platforms -- the crime of human trafficking has conquered cyber space. The internet and digital platforms offer traffickers numerous tools to recruit, exploit, and control victims; organize their … [Read more...]
WORLD DAY AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS – July 30, 2022 International
July 18, 2022 by Team Celebration
HUMAN TRAFFICKING at it’s Worst, FBI reports
January 21, 2013 by Team Celebration
January 2013 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month HUMAN TRAFFICKING ( in the West ) AT IT'S WORST, FBI reports Last month, a Kentucky cardiologist and his ex-wife pled guilty to recruiting a Bolivian woman to work as their domestic servant and holding her unlawfully for nearly 15 years. The couple took her passport, threatened her with deportation, and falsely promised that her wages were being put in a bank account. Trafficking in persons is a widespread form of … [Read more...]
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