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3rd January: Weekly News Roundup

Featured Reports

Featured Reports

The White House: A Proclamation on National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2025, 30/12/2024

USA Department of Defense: U.S. Recognizes Child Soldiering as Human Trafficking, 02/01/2025

USA Administration for Children and Families: : Connecting the Dots. Strengthening Communities. Preventing Trafficking, 02/01/2025

Psychology Today: Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect Human Trafficking, 27/12/2024

Reuters: Technology and human trafficking: Fighting the good fight, 02/01/2025

The Conversation: Modern slavery is endemic in global supply chains. Companies should be praised – not shamed – for detecting it, 02/01/2025

Catholic Herald: The quiet work of liberating trafficked women from slavery, 03/01/2025

United Kingdom and Ireland

The Headlines

BBC: Tate brothers human trafficking case sent back by Romanian court, 19/12/2024

Travers Smith: UK Modern Slavery Act 2015: to reform or not to reform – that remains the question following latest position from Government. 20/12/2024

The Big Issue: Modern slavery is still rife in the UK – where do we go from here?, 31/12/2024

Europe

  • Belgium: Fugitive members of small boat people smuggling network who transported thousands and sexually abused migrants arrested. Read more.


  • Montenegro: Let’s Fight Together: Raise Awareness for Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Read more.


Africa

  • Kenya: Ethiopian couple arrested in Nairobi over alleged human trafficking. Read more.


  • Morocco: Morocco will acquire more drones to step up the fight against drug trafficking and human trafficking. Read more.


  • Nigeria: 10 Kano human trafficking victims handed over to NAPTIP. Read more.


Asia and Oceania

  • India: Climate change linked to poverty, trafficking in the Sundarbans. Read more.


  • Iraq: ‘Modern slavery’: Trapped in Iraq, Nigerian women cry out for help. Read more.


  • Pakistan; Pakistan Govt Officials Found Involved In Human Trafficking; 35 Suspended By FIA, Read more.


  • Pakistan: PM Shehbaz orders punitive action against human traffickers. Read more.


  • Philippines: 13 Filipino surrogate mothers return home after royal pardon in Cambodia. Read more.


Latin America

  • Brazil: Brazil views labor violations at BYD site as human 'trafficking'. Read more.
  • Guatemala: Guatemalan Officials Raid Compound of Jewish Sect and Remove Dozens of Minors. Read more.


North America

  • Canada: : Traffickers used Canadian study visas to smuggle Indians into US. Read more.


  • Florida, USA: From shadow to light: The stories of two survivors of human trafficking | Opinion. Read more.


  • Georgia, USA: FBI working to lower human trafficking in Georgia. Read more.

INTERPOL: Inside INTERPOL’s probe into cyber-enabled human trafficking

UNODC: Global report on Human Trafficking: 25 per cent increase of detected victims and more children being exploited

UN News: Poverty, conflict and climate fuel spike in trafficking victims: UN report

CSIS: To Combat Modern Slavery, Incentivize Innovation by Funding the Development of Diverse Supply Chains

Reuters: Human trafficking rises sharply after dropping during pandemic, UN says

The Conversation: What it’s really like to be ‘rescued’ from modern slavery

United Kingdom and Ireland

The Headlines

Legislation.gov.uk: Online Safety Act 2023

OFCOM: Time for tech firms to act: UK online safety regulation comes into force

Free Movement: Recent changes to the policy on granting leave to survivors of trafficking

EIN.org: ICIBI report raises concerns over quality of Home Office’s modern slavery decisions

BigIssue: I was forced to work unpaid and never let out of the house. Modern slavery is all around us in the UK.

Regional Stories

England

  • Bedfordshire: Man bailed over suspected human trafficking. Read more.


  • Luton: Dunstable man arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and modern slavery offences. Read more.


  • Manchester: Man City lawyer claims human rights issues would ‘distract’ football watchdog. Read more.


  • Merseyside: Three men jailed for more than 24 years following investigation into modern day slavery and drug supply offences. Read more.


  • Suffolk: Suffolk Police sees rise in reports of modern slavery and human trafficking offences. Read more.

Wales

  • West Glamorgan: Illegal nail bar jobs offered despite clampdown. Read more.

Europe

  • EU: Millions of Pakistanis in slave-like conditions. Read more.


  • Council of Europe: Explanatory Report to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. Read more.


  • Romania: Tate brothers human trafficking case sent back by Romanian court. Read more.


  • Serbia: The Exploitation of Refugees and Migrants Hidden Struggles Along Migration Routes Read more.

Africa

  • AFRICOM: AFRICOM Takes Steps to Combat Human Trafficking and Child Soldiering. Read more.


  • Democratic Republic of Congo: Congo lawyers say Apple's supply chain statement must be verified. Read more.


  • Liberia: Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. Read more.


  • Liberia: Liberia urged to prevent trafficking in human. Read more.


  • Nigeria: NIDO-Africa launches anti-human trafficking campaign today. Read more.


  • Uganda: Govt intervenes as human trafficking cases surge in eastern Uganda. Read more.

Asia and Oceania

  • Afghanistan: Poverty, unemployment drive human trafficking in Afghanistan, survey finds. Read more.


  • Australia; Australian Government responds to review of the Modern Slavery Act. Read more.


  • Australia: Australia outlines changes to anti-slavery law. Read more.


  • Australia: What is the Modern Slavery Act Australia and how to comply? Read more.


  • China: Chinese court upholds death sentence of child trafficker after rejecting final appeal. Read more.


  • India: Exploited, stigmatised: Survivors of human trafficking recount horror stories in Bengaluru. Read more.


  • India: Key accused in Laos human trafficking, cyberfraud case held from Hyderabad: Delhi Police. Read more.


  • Philippines: Mary Jane Veloso, Filipina nearly executed in Indonesia, arrives home. Read more.

Latin America

  • Bolivia: Bolivia prosecutor seeks ex-president Morales' arrest over 'trafficking' of minor. Read more.


  • Colombia: As billion-dollar webcam industry booms, models suffer at hands of Colombian studios. Read more.


  • LATAM: Tracking the Exploitation of Illegal Gold, Human Trafficking, and Government Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Spanish. Read more.

North America

  • Canada: Canada to introduce new law to address forced labour risks in global supply chains. Read more.


  • Ohio, USA: Ohio athlete’s Olympic dreams shattered after he says trainers sex trafficked him. Read more.


  • Pennsylvania, USA: Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention. Read more.


  • Pennsylvania, USA: I’m a former assistant DA who works with survivors of sex trafficking − here’s why a recent Philly sting marks a shift in how Pennsylvania confronts the commercial sex industry. Read more.


  • South Carolina, USA: University of South Carolina Alumna finds niche as advocate for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. Read more.


  • Vermont, USA: Omegle Shakes Child Sex Trafficking Claims in Eleventh Circuit. Read more.