humantrafficking
Moral panic about sex work leads to law enforcement practices that reach far beyond anyone engaged in or with erotic labor. The latest example comes from San Diego County, California, where cops are putting up a creepy surveillance tower under the auspice of stopping sex sellers and sex buyers from meeting. The prostitution surveillance tower, stationed along National City's Roosevelt Avenue, will record video of anyone who happens to be in the area. Normalizing Warrantless SurveillanceA supporter of the surveillance tower told a local CBS affiliate that it will help reduce prostitution by rec...
Reason
Project Rescue Children (PRC) claims to have rescued hundreds of children around the world from human traffickers. But an intensive investigation by the BBC casts major doubts on this claim. Reporter Hayley Mortimer found that multiple PRC stories—including one involving a baby "saved from traffickers"—appear to have been false and that several of the rescue centers it was supposedly fundraising for didn't exist. PRC called the BBC's allegations "completely without merit, misleading and defamatory." But the BBC's story appears deeply reported, with Mortimer having physically traveled to allege...
Reason
By Waquar Hasan Arun Kumar, an unemployed youth from Gopalganj in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district, was desperate for a job to support his family after the death of his parents. As the sole breadwinner, he faced mounting pressure. This is when he came across social media influencer Balwant Kataria, popularly known as Bobby Kataria, on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Kataria, with his promises of lucrative job opportunities in countries like the UAE, Canada, and Saudi Arabia, seemed to be a beacon of hope. When Kumar contacted Kataria, he was asked to visit Kataria’s office in Gurgaon. On Fe...
BOOM Live
Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson participated in a meeting of the EU Network of National Coordinators and Rapporteurs, on trafficking in human beings - the last meeting of her mandate. High on the agenda was the European Union's approach to human trafficking, in which she declared "impunity is over" for those guilty of trafficking. "Last year, traffickers generated over 200 billion dollars worldwide. We are now countering the culture of impunity with a new asset recovery rule that I put forward. We'll take away the fast cars, big houses and mountains of cash from the criminals" sa...
Euronews (English)
America isn't alone in its moral panic over sex trafficking, as an Argentinian case against a self-help center called the Buenos Aires Yoga School (BAYS) suggests. Prosecutors are trying the school's 85-year-old founder, Juan Percowicz, and a number of its members, alleging that the school was really a cult engaged in brainwashing and sex trafficking. Authorities raided the group's headquarters and the houses of 50 members two summers ago, accusing the group of being a front for an international sex slavery ring. Seventeen people, including Percowicz, were arrested and jailed on suspicion of h...
Reason
Four mainland Chinese residents were arrested in Hong Kong while illegally working as cleaners in the city, the Immigration Department has announced. After noticing some mainland Chinese companies promoting their cleaning services in Hong Kong on social media, the Immigration Department said it had investigated one company suspected of arranging illegal cleaners in the city. Posing as a potential customer, staff from the department reached out to the company, leading to the four arrests. A 28-year-old who was in charge of the company and three illegal workers were apprehended while providing c...
Hong Kong Free Press
By Anuja In a first for a parliamentary legislation, the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) Bill, 2023, introduced in the Indian Parliament last month, recognises offences related to trafficking in people and ‘human trafficking for prostitution’ as ‘organised crime’. This bill repeals the Indian Penal Code, 1860 or the IPC which is the principal law on criminal offences in the country. The move is significant because while the nature of crimes related to human trafficking in India have been often been organised, officially recognising it as one could strengthen the investigation process and help in ...
BOOM Live
A new report from the Freedom Fund, on how to prevent modern slavery and win sustained, long-term liberation for formerly trafficked persons. The report studied on-the-ground conditions for people freed from slavery in India, to find out what helped keep people out of slavery once liberated. It found that freedom from debt bondage; teaching people about their labor rights; offering NGO support; improving worker protections; and providing essential services like healthcare, are all instrumental in ensuring people stay free after modern slavery.Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreExe...
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