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It’s been 15 years since a universal treaty was adopted to fight human trafficking. What’s happened in that time? Here is a timeline…
A lot has transpired from 2000 when the United Nations passed, at the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons…to this year–2015–when we saw two important initiatives–both Britain’s Modern Slavery Act and the United Nation’s adoption of 17 Sustainable Goals.
In a major campaign win, the US state of Maine just passed legislation to ban marriage for those under 18 years of age, reports WGAN. The new legislation closes a dangerous legal loophole that allows parents or a judge to push 17-year-olds into child marriage with no requirement for consent. Marriage before 18 is “human rights abuse” In 2020, Maine raised the legal age for marriage to 16. Prior to that, the law in Maine allowed a parent to
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