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Instagram Model Forced Followers Into Sex Work, Kept Them As Slaves
Former Brazilian model and US-based wellness influencer Kat Torres has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the human trafficking and slavery of women, after an FBI investigation found that two women living with her had gone missing in 2022.
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14-Year-Old California Girl Arrested For Murder Of Non-Profit CEO's Daughter
The 20-year-old was gunned down while walking in a part of South Los Angeles known for sex work and human trafficking.
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Facebook Sued by Woman Who Claims Site Enabled Sex Trafficking
Facebook said that it works internally and externally to thwart such predators.
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Facebook, Responding To Lawsuit, Says Sex Trafficking Banned On Site
Facebook said on Wednesday in response to a lawsuit accusing it of not doing enough to protect users from human traffickers that it works internally and externally to thwart such predators.
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'Girls As Dessert': Thailand Sex Scandal Exposes Grim Tradition
When senior bureaucrats visited the remote Thai province where local official Boonyarit worked, the routine was often the same: welcome them with the finest food and drink and then bring out the teen girls, often referred to as "dessert".
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Philippines Warns Of Japan Human Trafficking Risk
The Philippines warned its citizens today against illegally travelling to Japan in search of work, saying they risked being trafficked for sex or forced labour.
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Bangladeshi Women Trafficked To War-Torn Syria As Sex Slaves, Maids
Scores of Bangladeshi women have been lured with the promise of a good job in the Middle East and then trafficked to war-torn Syria, where they are forced into domestic or sex work, a senior Bangladeshi police official said.
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Trafficked Into Sex Work, Uganda Women Stunned To Be Duped By Other Women
At first, Sarah Nakintu was grateful to her friend for alerting her to job opportunities in marketing and retail in Dubai.
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How This Former Sex Worker Transformed Her Life
"I had no choice but to do this kind of work," says Maiya in a soul stirring video that traces her journey as a sex worker in Kolkata to working as a supervisor in a soap-making company.
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From Fishing to Sex Work, Trafficked People Badly Abused
From dog attacks, strangulation and rape, to injured fishermen being thrown overboard and left to drown, trafficked people can suffer extreme violence and severe health problems no matter where they end up working, researchers have found.
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Goa police close to busting human trafficking racket
Goa police is working on unearthing an alleged human trafficking racket based on the crucial leads they have received from the girls rescued from two massage parlours in Panaji. Ten girls from Thailand, who were allegedly working as sex workers and call girls in two different massage parlours, were rescued by Panaji police last weekend.
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Ashton Kutcher meets Delhi's 'powerful girls'
Ashton Kutcher, who is on his maiden trip to India for a shooting assignment, met women of a NGO working for the cause of sex trafficking victims.
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Advertisements trick women into sex work in Malaysia
Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda's capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender. Instead many are forced to become "sex slaves" to pay off travel fees and other costs amounting to as much as $7,000. The traffickers brainwash their victims into believing they m...
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Deaf Pak girl allegedly kept in UK cellar as sex slave for a decade
Locked in a cellar where she was allegedly raped and beaten for nearly a decade, a young deaf and mute Pakistani woman told a UK court on Monday how she was trafficked into Britain and forced to work as a virtual slave. The woman, whose age is not known, said she was around 10 when she was brought to the northern city of Manchester as a domestic se...
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Instagram Model Forced Followers Into Sex Work, Kept Them As Slaves
Former Brazilian model and US-based wellness influencer Kat Torres has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the human trafficking and slavery of women, after an FBI investigation found that two women living with her had gone missing in 2022.
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14-Year-Old California Girl Arrested For Murder Of Non-Profit CEO's Daughter
The 20-year-old was gunned down while walking in a part of South Los Angeles known for sex work and human trafficking.
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Facebook Sued by Woman Who Claims Site Enabled Sex Trafficking
Facebook said that it works internally and externally to thwart such predators.
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Facebook, Responding To Lawsuit, Says Sex Trafficking Banned On Site
Facebook said on Wednesday in response to a lawsuit accusing it of not doing enough to protect users from human traffickers that it works internally and externally to thwart such predators.
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'Girls As Dessert': Thailand Sex Scandal Exposes Grim Tradition
When senior bureaucrats visited the remote Thai province where local official Boonyarit worked, the routine was often the same: welcome them with the finest food and drink and then bring out the teen girls, often referred to as "dessert".
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Philippines Warns Of Japan Human Trafficking Risk
The Philippines warned its citizens today against illegally travelling to Japan in search of work, saying they risked being trafficked for sex or forced labour.
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Bangladeshi Women Trafficked To War-Torn Syria As Sex Slaves, Maids
Scores of Bangladeshi women have been lured with the promise of a good job in the Middle East and then trafficked to war-torn Syria, where they are forced into domestic or sex work, a senior Bangladeshi police official said.
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Trafficked Into Sex Work, Uganda Women Stunned To Be Duped By Other Women
At first, Sarah Nakintu was grateful to her friend for alerting her to job opportunities in marketing and retail in Dubai.
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How This Former Sex Worker Transformed Her Life
"I had no choice but to do this kind of work," says Maiya in a soul stirring video that traces her journey as a sex worker in Kolkata to working as a supervisor in a soap-making company.
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From Fishing to Sex Work, Trafficked People Badly Abused
From dog attacks, strangulation and rape, to injured fishermen being thrown overboard and left to drown, trafficked people can suffer extreme violence and severe health problems no matter where they end up working, researchers have found.
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Goa police close to busting human trafficking racket
Goa police is working on unearthing an alleged human trafficking racket based on the crucial leads they have received from the girls rescued from two massage parlours in Panaji. Ten girls from Thailand, who were allegedly working as sex workers and call girls in two different massage parlours, were rescued by Panaji police last weekend.
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Ashton Kutcher meets Delhi's 'powerful girls'
Ashton Kutcher, who is on his maiden trip to India for a shooting assignment, met women of a NGO working for the cause of sex trafficking victims.
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Advertisements trick women into sex work in Malaysia
Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda's capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender. Instead many are forced to become "sex slaves" to pay off travel fees and other costs amounting to as much as $7,000. The traffickers brainwash their victims into believing they m...
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Deaf Pak girl allegedly kept in UK cellar as sex slave for a decade
Locked in a cellar where she was allegedly raped and beaten for nearly a decade, a young deaf and mute Pakistani woman told a UK court on Monday how she was trafficked into Britain and forced to work as a virtual slave. The woman, whose age is not known, said she was around 10 when she was brought to the northern city of Manchester as a domestic se...
