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The fifth Annual Concordia Summit will focus on Labor Trafficking…
The Summit in New York City, will explore solutions involving global challenges and public-private partnerships. Many of the discussions focused on labor trafficking and the estimated 20.9 million human trafficking victims worldwide. It is estimated that most–68%–are victims of forced labor. Much profit is gained in this crime and at low risk. There were surprisingly only 4,443 global convictions last year.
A Libyan coast guard vessel donated by Italy and funded by the EU fired “hundreds of bullets” at a rescue ship in international waters. The European Commission has called the incident “a worrying development.” That said, it continues to support Libyan authorities under the EU’s migration cooperation deal. Armed violence against humanitarian workers The Ocean Viking, operated by SOS Mediterranee, had just rescued a group of migrants when a
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