A yearlong investigation has resulted in the closure of two massage businesses after reports of alleged human trafficking, the Oceanside Police Department announced Monday, Oct. 20.| North Coast Current
New research has uncovered evidence linking hundreds of financially-motivated child sextortion cases to forced scamming compounds in Asia.| Thomson Reuters Institute
New research about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada reveals that human trafficking in a factor in these crimes.| Thomson Reuters Institute
On 14 October 2025, the Home Office published a Statement of Changes to the UK Immigration Rules, introducing a number of important amendments across several immigration categories. A written ministerial statement was also laid before Parliament. The post Personal Immigration Update: October 2025 Immigration Rule Changes appeared first on Richmond Chambers.| Richmond Chambers
The 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report has been released by the State Department of the United States, and Marcel van der Watt (President and CEO at NCOSE) joins Haley McNamara (Executive Director and CSO at NCOSE) and Dani Pinter (CLO and Director of the NCOSE Law Center) to talk about some of the surprises in […]| NCOSE
Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.| Reason.com
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On September 25th, 2025, …| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On August 28th, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum, in partnership with Praeveni Global, hosted a webinar examining the effectiveness of forced labor import bans as tools for corporate behavior change. The discussion, moderated by Duncan Jepson, Director of Strategy…| Viewpoints
New Trump administration policies are illegally stripping away deportation protections, according to the lawsuit.| Articles – Truthout
Combating sex trafficking and exploitation requires a multi-faceted approach, which includes leveraging technology, support & collaboration.| Thomson Reuters Institute
A trafficked boy tied with rope. (Image Source: Photograph by HTWE via Shutterstock; https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/kidnapped-little-boy-tied-rope-tortured-1523488403) By Jeffrey M. Jordan, II Introduction Sex trafficking is often framed as an issue that predominantly affects women and girls, leaving a gap in legal protections and social recognition for male victims. With all the evidence and studies available today, the […]| American University: Journal of International Service
Coercive control can be looked at from the perspective of the manipulator using drugs as a tool to control the victim. There are two spheres where the use of drugs have been used to establish coercion. The post ICSA Annual Conference: Drugs as a Tool for Coercive Control appeared first on Cult Mediation.| Cult Mediation
1. Introduction Today Financial Crime News is publishing a Financial Crime Dashboard (see Annex 1) for Latvia and a summary of the progress made, a week after the new Moneyval report for Latvia was discussed at the joint FATF Moneyval Meeting and is said to be positive. Nevertheless, we will have to wait until Q4 2025 as Latvia is the first country to be assessed under the 6th round of country evaluations so it will go through a full quality check. For the avoidance of any doubt, FCN has not ...| Financial Crime News
Today Financial Crime News is publishing an updated Financial Crime Dashboard on Singapore after spending a few weeks meeting many financial crime leaders in the city state, and just ahead of the FATF assessors coming to town for their 5th round onsite. See: FCN Singapore Dashboard June25Pbd The last full FATF evaluation was published in 2016 with a follow up report in 2019 so a lot has changed since then, both in terms of the threat and the response. See for 2016 & See for 2019: The last FA...| Financial Crime News
The UAE ML/TF Risk Assessment 2024 dropped last week and it’s a very big improvement on those prior NRA extracts reported in 2019 and 2021. The UAE has been through a lot during this period, including being added and then removed from FATF’s Grey List. FCN has reported on the journey the UAE has been on including reporting on improvements made, which suggest where genuine political commitment to make improvements in combatting financial crime and money laundering are real a lot can be ach...| Financial Crime News
UK and Australia are easing surrogacy access despite a UN report calling for a worldwide ban, slavery-like conditions, and $100B industry.| National File
Written by Annabel Simpson. Over the summer of 2022, reports of people being trafficked from overseas and being forced to work scamming others in Southeast Asia began to make their way into Western…| Taiwan Insight
Kirsten Larson, Ph.D. Researcher, Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway – Yesterday marked the release of the joint study “Child Trafficking and Armed Conflict,” conducted by the United Nations (UN) Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (SRSG-CAAC) and the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and… Continue reading UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and U...| Irish Centre for Human Rights
Heute ist Internationaler Tag gegen Menschenhandel. Etwa 50 – 60% des internationalen Menschenhandels betreffen sexuelle Ausbeutung. Die überwältigende Mehrheit der Betroffenen sind Frauen und Mädchen: 92%.| Huschke Mau
And you better believe that the devil is rejoicing at our rebellion.| LifeSite
A federal judge in New York says transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell should not be released.| AP News
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On July 31st, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum, in partnership with Praeveni Global, hosted a webinar on "Faith Leadership and Missions" as part of a monthly series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Palermo Protocol. The panel explored how…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On July 31, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum hosted its fourth "Faith in Action: Reflections" webinar, focusing on "Migration and Refugee Movements, Human Trafficking, and Modern Slavery." The discussion brought together anti-trafficking practitioners and advocates to examine how faith…| Viewpoints
This story was originally published by ProPublica, along with The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga, and Cazadores de Fake News. Republished under ProPublica’s CC BY-NC-N…| Techdirt
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On March 27th, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum, in partnership with Praeveni Global, hosted the first webinar in a monthly series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Palermo Protocol, which will lead up to the G20 in South Africa…| Viewpoints
As the world watches the war in Ukraine unfold, a quieter, more insidious tragedy is happening in the shadows—the mass abduction of Ukrainian children. These are not just stories of displacement or destruction. These are stories of children—many orphaned, disabled, or separated from family—being systematically taken by Russian forces, stripped of their identities, and rewritten […] The post Ukraine’s Stolen Children: A War Crime Against the Most Vulnerable appeared first on The Arch...| The Archibald Project
Right now, the people of Haiti are living through an unimaginable nightmare. Gang violence has overtaken communities, schools have shut down, families are on the run, and hunger is ravaging the country. At the center of this crisis are Haiti’s children—innocent, vulnerable, and enduring the unimaginable. This is not just a crisis.This is a catastrophe. […] The post Haiti is Suffering – It’s Children are Paying the Price appeared first on The Archibald Project.| The Archibald Project
Let that number settle in your heart: 473 million children. That’s not a typo. Right now, nearly half a billion children—one in every six kids on this planet—are living in or near an active war zone. They are not safe.They are not shielded.They are not okay. This Is Their Reality Instead of bedtime stories, they […] The post One in Six: The Children Living in the Shadows of War appeared first on The Archibald Project.| The Archibald Project
Sen. Jonathan Martin (R-Fort Myers) recently filed a bill to tackle human sex trafficking in the state by imposing stricter penalties, particularly against thos| The Floridian
The Marshall Project found nearly 100 people who were punished for the actions of their abusers under little-known laws like “accomplice liability.”| The Marshall Project
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