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New Jersey is facing a Human trafficking problem just like all the other States throughout America. There have been 86 cases noted in N.J. this year up through June 15.
Last year the N.J. count was 155 total. New Jersey has established a human trafficking task force to combat its growing problem. Traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to trap people into modern slavery against their will. Most cases this year involve women and children and both forced labor and commercial sex.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided that the sinking of a migrant vessel in November 2017, which claimed 20 lives and led survivors into Libya’s infamous detention camps, was deemed outside Italy’s legal control. The ruling effectively absolves Italy of responsibility for migrant deaths in the Mediterranean and detention abuses in Libya. This signals a worrying legal precedent that could embolden further evasion of accountability in
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