TEAMWORK – Multi-agency co-operation what is working

Labour Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery, Training in THB / By

Labour Trafficking and Multi Agency Cooperation TEAMWORK! A recent report from the Netherlands just out – TEAMWORK – is a comprehensive tool kit, designed to strengthen multidisciplinary cooperation against trafficking for labour exploitation in the EU. The report was developed in co-operation with a panel of experts gathered from Luxembourg, Slovakia and Malta, (countries which …

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A year in focus – March 2015-2016

Legislation, Migration, Modern Day Slavery, Smuggling of Human Beings, Supply Chains, trafficking, trafficking for labour exploitation, trafficking in human beings / By

A Year in Focus – March 31st 2016 – Transparency, Supply Chains, and the Modern Day Slavery Act 2015.   The year in focus in this instance is based on the anniversary of March 2015. For in this particular month – on the 26th March 2015, the UK government initiated through legislation, a deviation from …

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Some Tips for the TIP report

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Earlier this year, before Olympic fever spread across the globe, the United States Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons released the 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report (‘TIP Report’). The Report, issued in June each year in accordance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, sets out to provide a …

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South African life imprisonment for child trafficker

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Our thanks to Advocate Beatri Kruger who works in at the Free State University in South Africa for the following update on South Africa where the legislature is developing its response to Human Trafficking – she informs us about the following news released yesterday. Human trafficker Adina dos Santos was sentenced to life imprisonment at …

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Texas gears up to Superbowl and trafficking risk

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There is a “looming potential explosion of human trafficking around the Super Bowl,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott was reported as saying by Newsweek yesterday. Certainly there is strong evidence that during the Superbowl when over 100,000 fans descend on the designated city, cases of super-exploitation within the sex industry arise, and within that mix …

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Major legal aid provider hit by slow Government payments.

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On the 15th June 2010 – yesterday the Trustees of Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ) signed papers to place the charity into administration as a result of a cash flow problem created by late payment of legal aid by the Legal Services Commission. The administrators, BDO, will this afternoon on the 16th June 2010 assume …

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