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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?

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We Needed a Vote to Abolish Slavery. On the Resolution’s 75th Anniversary, It’s Skyrocketed Instead.

The United Nations passed an anti-slavery resolution on December 2 in 1949. Since then, humans owned by others have skyrocketed to 50 million worldwide. What will it take to stop this scourge?

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USCIRF Releases Report on Worldwide Oppression of Jehovah’s Witnesses

From the deprivation of rights to imprisonment, heavy fines, harassment, unemployment, disruption of religious services, forced labor and torture, Jehovah’s Witnesses too often pay a terrible price for their peaceful beliefs.

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United States Scores a Miserable “D” for Human Rights Record

University of Rhode Island’s Global RIghts Project ranked 195 countries; 62 percent failed outright, and only 20 percent scored an "A" or "B." Global respect for people’s fundamental rights is in decline.

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Scottish Police Smash Thai Sex Trafficking Ring

Couple trafficked Thai women to Scotland, burdened them with huge debt and forced them into prostitution to “pay it back.” The perpetrators face years in prison.