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For 25 years, the State Department has had an office tracking the scope of human trafficking and working to combat it. In ...
Human trafficking has been reported in all 50 states. To use New York as an example, ... graphs and heat maps, to track trends and recognize risk factors. Ultimately, ...
A key office charged by Congress with coordinating the federal government’s work against human trafficking was gutted July 11 ...
According to the graph, the number of human trafficking arrests per year ranged from 300 to 1,952 during the Obama presidency, and then skyrocketed after Trump became president, to 3,213 in 2017 ...
A newly released study estimated that more than 500,000 people were exploited in labor trafficking and 200,000 in sex trafficking in Florida over the last year.
In August 2022, 141 adult victims of human trafficking, 84 minor victims of child sex trafficking and 37 missing children were found during the two-week operation. Featured Weekly Ad.
Human trafficking cases have risen 185% compared to this time last year, one human rights organization says. LOS ANGELES -- As COVID-19 cases surge, another hidden issue is taking its toll on our ...
Commenting on the data, Northeastern University Professor Amy Farrell told Newsweek, "Overall, we know human trafficking is under identified, under investigated and under prosecuted and some ...
New report details government's efforts to prosecute human trafficking 06:30. The majority of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases in the U.S. last year took place on Facebook ...
And in the U.S., federal human trafficking convictions decreased by 48 percent between 2019 and 2022. Considering the impunity that traffickers unfortunately enjoy, ...
Over time, the problem has worsened. According to data from the National Human Trafficking Hotline, Washington state had 194 identified victims of human trafficking in 2015.