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Associated Press: Donald Tump files suit claiming copyright infringement by a Lithuanian “Mrs. Universe” pageant. “One of the main thrusts of the Lithuanian pageant was awareness of human trafficking,...
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UN LAUNCHES FUND TO ASSIST SLAVERY SURVIVORS UN Announces “Global Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons.” Ten years ago, the UN General Assembly first officially recognized the need to combat...
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Asia One News: China’s gender gap fueling trafficking: “The gender gap has created a situation where there are not enough women of marrying-age for China’s single men…Chinese police have so far freed...
View Article90% of North Korean Defectors Sold to Chinese Traffickers, Advocate Says
Yesterday, Free the Slaves Policy and Research Associate Jody Sarich and I attended a congressional hearing on North Korean human rights violations, in which several NK defectors described being...
View ArticleChina, India Must Do More to Combat Slavery, U.S. Lawmaker Says
Washington, D.C.—At a hearing held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, the State Department’s anti-trafficking Ambassador Luis CdeBaca recommended that slavery eradication efforts take a...
View ArticleChina-Myanmar Border Rife with Trafficking, Report Says
This week, the Global Post published a great article about human trafficking in Ruili, a city on the Chinese side of the border with Myanmar. The article, written Kathleen E. McLaughlin, says that...
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Forced Marriage: a ‘Hidden’ Form of Slavery
Free the Slaves Policy and Research Associate Jody Sarich is featured on Big Think today, speaking about her research on forced marriage and its relation to slavery and human trafficking in China. With...
View ArticleNews Links: China’s ‘Twitter’ Reunites Kidnapped Child with Parents
Here’s a great story about the power of social media. In China, microblogging helped reunite a kidnapped child with his family. Via the BBC: It is estimated that up to 20,000 children in China are...
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Vice President Joe Biden will address modern-day slavery: Human trafficking on agenda for U.S. vice president’s trip to Moldova, Russia: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden plans to address the issue of...
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Loyola New Orleans Blogs About Modern Slavery
Free the Slaves’ college chapter coordinator Laura Murphy has been doing an awesome job recruiting and maintaining the FTS presence in schools. (If you haven’t already, check out our new “students”...
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