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This December, Human Rights First named Raimi Vincent Parasio as their contemporary abolitionist of the month.
In spite of violence against him and his family, Parasio has continued to fight against slavery in the Congo by cooperatively working with NGOs and government officials to stop sex and labor trafficking in the Republic of the Congo. He keeps exposing wrongs and working with more and more survivors.
On January 30, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released more than 3.5 million pages of documents, alongside 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, related to its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. After years of public pressure, the DOJ released the files, presenting the move as a step toward transparency under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Instead, survivors say the disclosure caused immediate harm. While the files
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