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  2. Human trafficking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking is a form of slavery, involving the illegal smuggling and trading of people for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power from a position of ...

  3. Human trafficking - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. It is distinct from people smuggling, which is characterized by the consent of the person being smuggled.

  4. Human trafficking in Florida - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking in Florida is the illegal trade of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor as it occurs in the state of Florida. After California and New York, Florida has the most human trafficking cases in the United States. [1] Florida has had cases of sex trafficking, domestic servitude, and forced labor.

  5. Human trafficking in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    e. Human trafficking in South Africa occurs as a practice of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation among imported and exported trafficked men, women, and children. [1] Generally, South African girls are trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic servitude, while boys are used for street vending, food ...

  6. Sex trafficking - Wikipedia

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    e. Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. It has been called a form of modern slavery because of the way victims are forced into sexual acts non-consensually, in a form of sexual slavery. [1] Perpetrators of the crime are called sex traffickers or pimps —people who manipulate victims to engage in various ...

  7. Human trafficking in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking in Jamaica. Jamaica is a source, transit, and destination country for adults and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. [1] Domestically, most victims are impoverished women and children enticed from rural parts of the country to metropolitan areas by family members or newspaper ...

  8. Human trafficking in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking in Australia is illegal under Divisions 270 and 271 of the Criminal Code (Cth). [1] In September 2005, Australia ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, [2] which supplemented the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. [3]

  9. Bird Flu Detected in Cats: What to Know About Risks, Safety

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    There have additionally been two human cases during the current outbreak, which began in March 2022. ... and we update our articles when new information becomes available. Current Version. May 7 ...