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Phoenix-based FBI agents located 17 victims of human trafficking last week as part of a nationwide enforcement campaign, authorities said.

Two men from Yarmouth, N.S., are facing dozens of charges related to human trafficking in a case police say involves multiple victims.

Iforma Okeke, aka Mama Blessing, a 33-year-old hairdresser and head of Nigerian prostitutes in Ayamfuri in the Central Region, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. This was after Iforma was found guilty on charges of human trafficking, failure to register with nearest Immigration and…

Significant efforts on the part of the Government to eliminate human trafficking in Barbados have resulted in a marginal upgrade in status to Tier Two on the US Department of State’s 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report.However, the country has not met the minimum standards in several key areas, including providing penalties commensurate with other serious crimes, according to the report which focused on the progress made to prosecute perpetrators, protect victims and prevent trafficking.Barbados previously appeared on the Tier 2 Watchlist in the 2021 list, narrowly avoiding a further downgrad...

SELMER – An undercover operation by special agents with the TBI Human Trafficking Unit, McNairy County Sheriff’s Office, Selmer Police Department, Adamsville Police Department, Tennessee Human Trafficking Task Force, Department of Human Services – Homeland Security Investigations, and in cooperation with the Office of 25th District Attorney General Mark Davidson has resulted in the arrest…