WASHINGTON, July 16(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Traveling sales crews hawking magazines and coupons door to door are a major form of labour trafficking in the United States, according to a…
The knock at your door may be a trafficking victim, Polaris says
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UK sex work laws turn survival into exploitation, but it doesn't have to
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