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Rockford Man Sentenced to 35 Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking

28.10.2024 13:10
Press Release   Monday, October 28, 2024 Share  For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois ROCKFORD — A Rockford man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal...

Sex Trafficker Sentenced to 27 Years in Federal Prison

28.10.2024 13:06
  Share  For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois CHICAGO — A Joliet, Ill. man has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and facilitating the sex trafficking of...

Woman and Her Two Daughters Sentenced to Federal Prison for Labor Trafficking Conspiracy in Chicago Suburbs

28.10.2024 13:00
CHICAGO — A woman and her two daughters were sentenced to federal prison terms today for conspiring to force undocumented West African children to work in the Chicago suburbs. NAWOMI AWOGA and her two daughters, MARINA OKE and ASSIBA LEA FANDOHAN, were convicted last year of conspiring...

HSI Kansas City-led human trafficking operation removes predators from Missouri community

05.05.2023 09:09
Joint HSI, IPD operation nets 22 during 3-day operation   KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City’s acting Special Agent in Charge Taekuk Cho announced the results of an HSI-led human trafficking operation May 3. The operation was initiated by the Kansas City...

DHS Announces Extension of REAL ID Full Enforcement Deadline

03.05.2021 08:17
Release Date:  April 27, 2021 WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is extending the REAL ID full enforcement date by 19 months, from October 1, 2021 to May 3, 2023, due to...

DHS Announces New Guidance to Limit ICE and CBP Civil Enforcement Actions In or Near Courthouse

03.05.2021 08:15
Release Date:  April 27, 2021 Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to place new limits on civil immigration enforcement actions in...

Joint human trafficking operation results in 5 arrests

11.03.2021 18:43
March 9, 2021. Union City TN,. Human Smuggling/Trafficking.  UNION CITY, Tenn. – A two-day joint undercover operation, aimed at individuals seeking commercial sex acts with minors, resulted in the arrest of five Tennessee and Kentucky residents. The investigation was conducted by Homeland...

South Texas stash house discovered by ICE At-Large Team

29.10.2020 11:50
LAREDO – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers encountered a residence in Laredo, Texas used to house illegal aliens, also known as stash houses, resulting in the apprehension of 32 undocumented aliens Thursday. The ICE ERO San Antonio...

ICE, Brazil Federal Police partnership lead to arrest of human smuggler

27.10.2020 16:51
BRASILIA, Brazil – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Brazil assists Brazil Federal Police in the capture of a dual Egyptian-Lebanese national for the smuggling of nine Yemenis nationals. The Brazil Federal Police received an anonymous tip on the...

The business of human trafficking

08.11.2011 11:24
At some point in a company's supply chain, it’s likely they are using products, supplies or services that involve trafficked people, says one senior company executive. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian theguardian Companies often use complex global procurement systems to deny their...

El Salvador To Set-Up Human Trafficking Council

26.09.2011 11:02
Inside CostaRica' Daily English News Source / Sunday 25 September 201 San Salvador - El Salvador will establish a National Council against Human Trafficking to assist the victims of the crime. Manuel Melgar, Minister of Justice and Security, said it is hard to determine the extent of this...

China Steps Up Anti-Child Trafficking Efforts

18.08.2011 11:33
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 at 7:40 am UTC Posted 1 day ago The Chinese government is drafting tighter rules on adopting children to combat the country's widespread child trafficking problem. The China Daily newspaper says only orphanages will be able to offer abandoned infants and...

Mexican Cartels Move Into Human Trafficking:Daily Human Trafficking and Smuggling Report

28.07.2011 12:08
The Salvadoran single mother was hoping to support her children in the United States. Instead, gunmen from the Zeta drug cartel kidnapped her in Mexico and forced her to cook, clean and endure the rapes of multiple men. Now the survivor of this terrifying three- month ordeal is a witness for a...

United Nations GA formally launches Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Person.

04.09.2010 20:24
31 August 2010 – The United Nations today launched a global action plan to combat human trafficking, with senior UN officials urging that governments worldwide take coordinated and consistent measures to try to defeat the scourge. The plan, launched at a high-level meeting of the General...

México, primer país del mundo en campaña de la ONU contra trata de personas

30.06.2010 14:02
México, primer país del mundo en campaña de la ONU contra trata de personas México, 14 abr. (EFE)- El presidente mexicano, Felipe Calderón, y el subsecretario general de la ONU, Antonio María Costa, lanzaron hoy la campaña "Corazón Azul" en contra de la trata de personas en el mundo, con lo...

UNODC Launches Global Review on Migrant Smuggling

24.06.2010 11:20
  10 June 2010 Migrant smuggling has been an issue of increasing concern. The negative consequences of this type of transnational crime include the erosion of state sovereignty and the loss of control over who enters and leaves the territory, the potential security implications of clandestine...

Launch of Human Rights Education on amnesty.org / Lancement de la page internet Education aux Droits Humains sur amnesty.org‏

08.04.2010 15:04
Amnesty International's work in human rights education spans formal, non-formal and informal sectors across all continents. Information about international human rights education is online now. Amnesty International believes that human rights education is fundamental for addressing the...

Council of Europe steps up action to combat sexual violence against children‏

22.03.2010 10:48
Strasbourg, 22.03.2010 – In ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse today, San Marino has cleared the way for the convention to come into force on 1 July this year. Designed to protect children against all forms of...

South Asia: Gateway to the world - UNODC launches its new South Asia website

01.02.2010 13:05
Asia website Today, on 1 February 2010, the Regional Office of the United Nations on Drugs Crime for South Asia is launching its new website. The official launch is taking place at our main office in New Delhi and we have invited several experts and partners, who have been working with us...

UN chief launches campaign in Africa to eradicate male violence against women‏

01.02.2010 11:33
30 January 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the support of African leaders to give new impetus to his campaign to end the violence suffered by women on the continent, which he called the “unsung heroines” of development in the region. “We know African women are often a...
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