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It’s worth mentioning that our investigation into the Chinese fishing fleet is far from finished. In fact, next week we release Season 2 of the Outlaw Ocean Podcast (with the CBC), which will be an 8-part anthology that delves further into this and other topics:

.The Human Trafficking Legal Center congratulates Outlaw Ocean on CBP Office of Trade's new #importban on a Chinese fishing vessel for #forcedlabor. We were proud to support Ian Urbina & the Outlaw Ocean team’s 4-year investigation and join in filing the WRO petition. Read:theoutlawocean.substack.com/p/federal-auth…

Thank you to Sara Benowitz, Bet Tzedek Low-Income Tax Initiative Director, for leading an excellent "Know Your Rights" webinar for #traffickingsurvivors. The seminar provided key information on the U.S. tax system. See The Human Trafficking Legal Center tax issues guide: htlegalcenter.org/wp-content/upl…

.CBP Office of Trade issued an #importban on seafood from a Chinese-flagged vessel, Zhen Fa 7. Outlaw Ocean Project found evidence of #forcedlabor in China’s distant water squid fishing fleet. The Human Trafficking Legal Center partnered with Ian Urbina to petition for the ban. seafoodsource.com/news/supply-tr…

📢 New Report: In 2024, #traffickingsurvivors filed a record-breaking 280 federal civil trafficking cases—the most in any year to date. Our 2024 Civil Litigation Data Update breaks down the numbers, trends, & impact: $940M+ in damages over 21 years. Read: htlegalcenter.org/wp-content/upl…

Check out Above Ground's piece over at the @policyalternatives where we talk about what shifts in US international forced labour policy mean for Canada's forced labour import ban. Now is the time for Canada to step up and finally end the import of products made with forced labour.

Thank you to The Adelante Project (Brigham and Women's Hospital, BIDMC) for inviting The Human Trafficking Legal Center Advocacy & Survivor Leadership Director Evelyn Chumbow to join advocates Simphiwe Maqubela & Jose Alfaro to present on trauma-informed healthcare services for #labortrafficking survivors.

This Pride Month, we honor the strength and resilience of LGBTQIA+ trafficking survivors. We stand beside these survivors as they courageously fight for justice and advocate for equality for all. Their voices belong at the center of the movement to end #humantrafficking.

In 2024, nearly 138 million children were engaged in child labour. Though progress has been made since 2020, millions are still being denied their right to learn, play and and simply be children. UNICEF and International Labour Organization are urging governments to take action. unicef.org/press-releases…

Today, nearly 138 million children are in child labour worldwide, down from 160 million four years ago. Let’s speed up efforts to #EndChildLabour! Read the latest @ILO & UNICEF Child Labour report. 👉 ilo.org/childlabourest…

Today is #DomesticWorkersDay! Did you know that 1 in every 22 employees globally is a domestic worker? Join us in raising awareness to #RatifyC189, for rights, dignity, and protections! 🙌 Take part in the social media challenge to show you care fully: ow.ly/OWi050Wa071

Trafficking survivors cannot rebuild their lives without legal status. Processing times for T Visas—a critical protection for #traffickingsurvivors—have climbed to 22.5 months. This leaves #traffickingsurvivors in limbo. USCIS should invest resources to end this harmful delay.

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. were freed—two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This day reminds us that the fight for freedom is an ongoing struggle. Drum Major Institute

French trial exposes human trafficking among champagne workers bbc.in/4jRRHSJ

OUT NOW: The Freedom Fund June Slavery Research Bulletin: 🔍Kenyan workers face coercive working conditions in Saudi Arabia 🔍100+ global brands linked to #Uyghur forced labor in China 🔍A global analysis of the prevalence of sexual violence against children freedomfund.org/news/slavery-r…

Thank you Paralegal Association of Florida (Paralegal Association of Florida, Inc.) for inviting Harriet Tubman Fellow Denisse Amézquita Gamboa & The Human Trafficking Legal Center's Martina Vandenberg to present on T Visas & trauma-informed legal services for #traffickingsurvivors. And thank you for all the excellent questions!

Really lucky to have worked with the Human Trafficking Legal Center. Kudos to them for this recent success story. mailchi.mp/htlegalcenter/… The Human Trafficking Legal Center

We also have a version of this piece up on our website now, under a different title. Thanks again to the @CCPA for having us author this piece for their site. aboveground.ngo/with-or-withou…

Trafficking survivors need T visas, a lifesaving form of immigration relief. New data show that USCIS, for the first time in history, denied more T visas than it approved in a quarter. USCIS approved just 430 T visas & denied 497 applications. The data: uscis.gov/tools/reports-…

.The Human Trafficking Legal Center is grateful to Sal Gonzalez, Josh Toll, & the King & Spalding team for generously providing space & support for our Harriet Tubman Fellowship Advocacy Week. Your dedication to #probono service makes a profound impact. Thank you for standing with #traffickingsurvivors.