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Lawsuit Says Community College Program was Human Trafficking
The lawsuit accuses an Iowa community college, a recruitment company, a pet food manufacturer and a packaging company of human trafficking and involuntary servitude.
Jan 15th, 2021
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Eleven students from Brazil and Chile have filed a federal lawsuit accusing a northwest Iowa community college, a recruitment company, a pet food manufacturer and a packaging company of human trafficking and involuntary servitude.
The lawsuit filed Monday in the Northern District of Iowa says Western Iowa Tech Community College and J&L Staffing, both in Sioux City, lured the students to Iowa in 2019 under a work- and study- based visa exchange program only to push them into factory jobs that had no educational value and were unrelated to the field of study.
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DES MOINES Eleven students from Brazil and Chile have filed a federal lawsuit accusing a northwest Iowa community college, a recruitment company, a pet food
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To mark National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to launch the revised Policy on Countering Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP). The updated C-TIP Policy adds new victim-centered, trauma-informed, and survivor-informed approaches, and promotes the intentional integration of efforts to end modern slavery across the Agency’s humanitarian and development programs.
The evil of modern slavery affects an estimated 25 million people around the world, including adults and children subjected to sexual exploitation or bound in domestic servitude; children forced to join armed groups; and victims trapped in forced labor in sectors such as fishing, construction, and agriculture. Since 2001, USAID has invested more than $340 million in 88 countries and regions to fight human trafficking as a high priority. Tailored to vulnerable and marginalized local populations, programs build local capacity in gover