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New Documentary “The Slave in Your Backyard” Chronicles Pervasiveness of “Everyday Trafficking”

By exposing the sex trafficking that goes on everywhere, these filmmakers are advocates for the kind of change that can only start with awareness.

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Six Convicted for Trafficking Migrants Into Forced Labor on UK Cannabis Farms

“Debt bondage” victims found themselves kidnapped and enslaved on illegal cannabis farms, servicing a pot industry that is booming in the UK.

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Scottsdale, AZ Police Arrest Over 200 in Human Trafficking Operation, Including Football Coach

Child sex trafficking, prostitution, luring a minor for sexual exploitation, possession of narcotic drugs and felony flight are among the charges.

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Virginia FOIA Law Strangled by Legislators Who Claim to Advocate Transparency

Nine thousand dollars for a school bus video? That’s the price of government transparency in Virginia. Legislators killed a bill that would have brought costs in line.

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“This Is Not a Threat But a Promise”—Hundreds Arrested in California Anti-Trafficking Sting

More than 100 law enforcement agencies across the state helped rescue nearly 180 individuals believed to be victims of human trafficking.

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Tennessee Moms Outraged by Illegal Solitary Confinement of Kids

Behind the locked gates of Richard L. Bean juvenile prison in Knoxville are shackled kids, no privacy and Bean’s favorite sadism: children in solitary confinement, often for days at a time.

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Two-Thirds of UK FOIA Requests Unanswered as Lawsuits Pile Up

The government spent over $1.1 million in 2023 fighting lawsuits filed by citizens for Freedom of Information Act disclosures. They are following the US tradition of secrecy.

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National Human Trafficking Prevention Month Calls Attention to Horrors of Sexual Exploitation

Undercover operatives work tirelessly to break up forced labor and sex trafficking networks, confronting “things that cannot be unseen.”

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Reuters OnlyFans Investigation Uncovers Porn, Rape and Slavery

OnlyFans claims they prohibit illegal content and moderate what gets posted on their site. The evidence tells a different story.

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Slavery Up 25 Percent in Three Years, as the Exploitation Epidemic Grows

For sexual exploitation or forced labor, slavery continues—not only unabated, but growing to as many as 65 million victims worldwide.

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New $215 Million Victims Fund Will Help Survivors Sex Trafficked on Backpage

The owners were jailed and the website assets confiscated, but the role of Tony Ortega—Backpage’s notorious sex trafficking champion—remains to be fully explored.

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Greek Sex Trafficking Ring Dismantled—But It’s a Drop in the Bucket

Over and over, sex trafficking and blackmail rings traffic women to centrally located Greece for forced prostitution and other sexual exploitation. Why isn’t the government doing more?