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Forced Labor in U.S. Detention Centers
A private company in the United States is facing a lawsuit claiming it engaged in forced labor with immigrant detainees. Earlier this month a federal judge ruled that a private detention center in Colorado must face a potential class action suit alleging it violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act by forcing immigrant detainees to work for little or no pay. The company that runs the detention center, The GEO Group Inc, had asked the judge to dismiss the claims, but the judge denied their motion.
Why the Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean is Not Human Trafficking
In the mass media coverage about Europe’s migrant crisis, in which an estimated 1,850 people have lost their lives so far this year crossing the Mediterranean, fingers have been pointed at “traffickers”, accused both of amplifying both the scale of the migration flow and being responsible for the most devastating of the humanitarian consequences of the trade. This is a conceptual error.
The Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report- What is it and Why Is it Important?
Soon, the United States Department of State will issue the 2015 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The TIP Report is the …
New Tool for Temporary Migrant Workers Seeks to Reduce Risk for Trafficking
Each year, over 100,000 Mexican workers are brought for work in the U.S. on H-2A and H-2B visas in industries …
Geovisualizations of Trafficking in Persons: Mapping a Clandestine Crime
Due to the urgency to understand the clandestine crime of trafficking in persons (TIP) and where it operates, publicly available …
Child Soldiers and ISIS
Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF claimed that 2014 was the most devastating year ever for children. It is not …
Too Many Men
There are at least 60 million missing women in the world. Naturally this disparity would never occur. Without manipulation, sex …
The “Perfect Victim” Problem
Recently I had the opportunity to hear a prosecutor, and city human trafficking task force member, discuss the process of …
Thai NGOs & Government Balance Anti-Trafficking Efforts
As many of you know, human trafficking in Thailand has been in the news almosteveryday in the past few weeks. …
Blacklisted: An Overview of Brazil’s “Dirty List”
In September 1989, 17-year old José Pereira Ferreira and a coworker tried to escape from a rural farm. At the …