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Fair Trade in Central Florida
The Fair Trade Project is working to Promote Fair Trade Certified as a consumer option and to cultivate Fair Trade Towns and Universities campaignsin the Central Florida region. We are currently working on Fair Trade Towns [...]
Nuns Denounce Human Trafficking Ahead Of Super Bowl XLVI, Educate Indianapolis Hotels’ Workers
The Huffington Post Ileana Llorens While Indianapolis businesses prepare to greet thousands of enthusiastic sports fans, local nuns are working make sure the celebration surrounding Super Bowl XLVI doesn’t include incidents of human trafficking. Eleven [...]
Experts: Super Bowl Festivities Leads to Human Trafficking from Florida
Law enforcement focuses on Super Bowl weekend By: Dan Corcoran PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – While final preparations are being made ahead of Super Bowl XLVI, law enforcement from Florida and elsewhere is honing in on [...]
Cab Drivers Enlisted to Combat Human Trafficking at the Super Bowl
Training is part of plan to show hospitality By MAUREEN HAYDEN CNHI Indiana INDIANAPOLIS — Hundreds of Indianapolis cab drivers being trained in how to show Hoosier hospitality for soon-to-arrive Super Bowl fans are also learning [...]
Indiana Passes Human Trafficking Law in Time for Super Bowl
By Elizabeth Prann Published February 02, 2012| FoxNews.com Indiana lawmakers passed tough human trafficking legislation this week — just in time to prevent an event where thousands of young girls could get bought and sold for [...]
Human Trafficking Bill Advances In Fla. Legislature
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) – The state’s Senate Criminal Justice Committee gave unanimous approval to a bill Tuesday that would increase the penalties for human trafficking and smuggling. Under SB 1880 the penalty for trafficking would increase from [...]
AP: Changes Ahead for Foreign Exchange Program
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: January 31, 2012 at 10:39 PM ET Associated Press Writer Mitch Weiss contributed to this report from Charlotte, N.C. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. State Department is proposing what it [...]
Woman in Ramapo labor-traffic case details sex-abuse allegations
Written by Hema Easley Her voice cracking and her face flushed, the woman who says she is a victim of labor trafficking and sex abuse described her helplessness and humiliation as her father-in-law used his position [...]
Valentine’s Day Campaign: Put some love in Executive Order 13126 | Slave Free Chocolate
In 1999 the US Department of Labor issued Executive Order 13126. “Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor,” was signed on June 12, 1999. The EO is intended to ensure that [...]
iPhone Suicides – Sign the Petition
Tell Apple: Immediately improve working conditions at factories that make iPhones and iPads [...]
