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Before April 1, 2015, Virginia was the only state in the nation that did not have any standalone human trafficking laws. SB 1188 [220] and HB 1964 [221] were passed on April 1, 2015. They were the first bills in Virginia to define sex trafficking, establish penalties, criminalized child sex trafficking as a Class 3 felony without the need to ...
Human Trafficking is a 2005 television miniseries about an American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent going undercover to stop an organization from trafficking people, and shows the struggles of three trafficked women. Nefarious: Merchant of Souls is a 2011 American documentary film about modern human trafficking, specifically sexual ...
Following the banning of immigrants during the 1920s, human trafficking was not considered a major issue until the 1990s. [ 39 ] [ 29 ] The 1921 Convention set new goals for international efforts to stem human trafficking, primarily by giving the anti-trafficking movement further official recognition, as well as a bureaucratic apparatus to ...
Human trafficking can occur both within a single country or across national borders. It is distinct from people smuggling, which involves the consent of the individual being smuggled and typically ends upon arrival at the destination. In contrast, human trafficking involves exploitation and a lack of consent, often through force, fraud, or ...
Call + Response is a documentary film released in 2008 by Fair Trade Pictures to support human rights activism against human trafficking and slavery on a community level. The film was Justin Dillon's directorial debut and has received worldwide recognition, becoming one of the most important devices in spurring the modern-day abolitionist ...
More than 260 people, most of them women and children, were reported victims of human trafficking in North Carolina at the end of 2020. The actual number of victims and survivors in the state ...
CATLETTSBURG An Ashland man pleaded guilty to the attempted human trafficking of a child in exchange for a seven-year sentence on Friday in Boyd County Circuit Court. Anthony C. Smith, 30, was ...
A man living in a luxurious Brickell condo was sentenced Wednesday to over two decades in federal prison for trafficking firearms from Miami to South America inside compressed air tanks.