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In 2007, the Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons was formed in British Columbia, making it the first province of Canada to address human trafficking in a formal manner. [4] In 2010 came the biggest human trafficking case in Canadian history, which involved the dismantling of the Dömötör-Kolompár criminal organization. [5]
When Joy Smith proposed the implementation of an anti-human-trafficking national action plan to the House of Commons (pictured) in 2007, the motion was passed unanimously.. In 2004, the Interdepartmental Working Group on Trafficking in Persons (IWG-TIP), the working group responsible for coordinating the Government of Canada's efforts against human trafficking, was mandated to create a ...
Human trafficking in Canada; A. ACT Alberta; An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of ...
A new report that looks at the human trafficking transportation corridors throughout the country also reveals that Canadian women are most commonly the victims.
The town of North Preston has a population of approx 800 to 1000, [5] and is located just northeast of Metropolitan Halifax. [3] Benjamin Perrin, a University of British Columbia faculty member who is involved with human trafficking research and activism, wrote extensively about NPF in his 2010 book Invisible Chains, [6] calling North Preston "a place of Shakespearean irony" because of the ...
Timea Nagy (born 1977) is a Canadian activist who has spoken on behalf of victims of human trafficking. She founded Walk With Me, a Toronto-based organization that aids survivors of trafficking. Nagy was featured in an anti-trafficking campaign by the Salvation Army in 2009. Her activism has drawn upon her own experience of forced prostitution ...
Schiller sought a stiffer penalty against Calero, describing her as the organizer of the human-trafficking operation and noting that she was free on bond at the time of her arrest for a case in ...
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of eighteen years) [1] (French: Loi modifiant le Code criminel (peine minimale pour les infractions de traite de personnes âgées de moins de dixhuit ans)) was a private member's bill that was enacted on June 29, 2010, by the 40th Canadian Parliament. [2]