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U.S. plans stepped up efforts to combat human trafficking
In June 2013, the State Department will issue their ranking of every nation on the issue of human trafficking. And the United States has already started increasing efforts to reduce human trafficking both in the United States and abroad....
Sex trafficking of women has nexus in Queens borough of New York City
Every year, thousands of women between the ages of 14 and 19, are smuggled through the small town of Tenancingo, Mexico, into the United States and forced into sex work. Many of these women end up in Queens, the new epicenter of prostitution in New York City. ...
Protecting children from sex trafficking continues to be elusive goal
Underage sex trafficking is in the news again after Washington state enacted a law requiring websites like backpage.com to maintain documentation proving the age of escorts advertising on the site. Some argue that escort websites are better than the alternative, but, there does not yet appear to be a model for ending child prostitution....
The Whistleblower: Military contractors, human rights and sex trafficking
Nebraska police officer Kathryn Bolkovac went to Bosnia in 1999 and discovered western officials were involved in trafficking of young women....
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