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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
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In April 2019, Mexican police arrested suspected human trafficker Ignacio Santoyo in a plush area of the Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen after linking him to a prostitution racket extending across Latin America.
An employee is reflected as she cleans the screen of a Bitcoin ATM in a shop in Mexico City, Mexico December 3, 2020. Pictute taken December 3, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero
Yet it was not the 2,000 women Santoyo is alleged to have blackmailed and sexually exploited that ultimately led to his capture, but the bitcoin he is suspected of using to help launder the proceeds of his operations, officials said.
April 10, 2021
DOBSON Unlike COVID-19, no vaccine is available for the roadside litter epidemic but Surry County officials are trying to remedy the problem on multiple fronts.
“We do appreciate any efforts citizens take to help clean up our roadways,” county government spokesman Nathan Walls commented Thursday in conjunction with recent announcements involving four separate initiatives.
This includes the county’s participation in the Litter Sweep program of the N.C. Department of Transportation, which began Saturday and will run through April 24. It is focused on collecting trash along roadways.
Local volunteers are invited to get involved by obtaining cleanup supplies such as trash bags, gloves and safety vests from the DOT’s county maintenance yard office at 1975 Prison Camp Road in Dobson. This can be done from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Question of the Day By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 20, 2020
Drone drug-smuggling has surged so much along the U.S.-Mexico border that the Border Patrol issued a stark plea last week asking residents in southwestern Arizona to step up and help them by spotting and reporting any incursions.
A spokesman for the Border Patrol in Yuma says new border wall construction has disrupted cartels’ normal routes and sent them into the air to try to find new ways to get narcotics from Mexico into the U.S.