Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL), calling on Democrats to help reveal who worked with Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking ring.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a 54-count indictment that charges 24 individuals, many illegal aliens, with operating a “modern-day slavery” scheme that utilized the H-2A visa program to traffic foreign workers into United States farm jobs — raping, kidnapping, and threatening them in the process.
The Black Lives Matter supporting fast-fashion giant Boohoo and its suppliers are facing an import ban from the United States over allegations that the British-based company employs slave labour.
The former leader of the Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, said that the Chinese coronavirus exposed the scourge of modern-day slavery in the Labour Party stronghold of Leicester and other locations throughout the United Kingdom.
White House Adviser Ivanka Trump on Thursday marked the State Department’s 20th year in fighting human trafficking — an issue she has personally worked to elevate within the administration.
A takeaway boss jailed for enslaving white men has been ordered to pay back the £275,000 he made from his crimes.
Theresa May’s modern slavery bill is being abused by allowing criminal migrants to claim they are under 18 and the victims of trafficking in order to avoid arrest, according to an investigation by the Sunday Times.
London police have arrested eight people suspected of being part of an international human trafficking gang with ties to Romania.
On the same day a puffy public relations piece about Amazon’s pampering of 6,000 dogs made the rounds through our compliant media, so did a report about warehouse employees being forced to urinate into bottles in order to keep up with their respective work quotas without sanction.
Eastern European modern-day slaves have been collecting clothing donated by the public to charities, police believe.
Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani claimed this week that an alleged reference to “shithole countries” by President Donald Trump, referring to Haiti and some African nations, would usher in “an epoch of modern savagery.”
Nigeria has begun to pull out thousands of citizens from Libya following reports that Libyan smugglers and authorities have forced hundreds of them into slavery.
Some Nigerians who were sold, leased, and used as slaves after being detained by Libyan authorities shared their horrific ordeal, telling the BBC that captives are often beaten, starved, raped, and even killed by prison guards.
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation designating January 2018 and National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
Twelve men have been arrested as part of an investigation into rape and slavery in England. Appearing in court, one of the defendants used an interpreter due to his poor English.
