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    What is Human trafficking?
    Human trafficking is modern day slavery. Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor.

    Look Beneath the Surface Report Human Trafficking on the National Trafficking and Referral Line:
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  • Stop Human Trafficking Today Project

    Stop Human Trafficking Today is a project of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Our team educates the community on the issue of human trafficking by providing workshops and presentations to community members, as well as social service providers and law enforcement. We also provide direct outreach to various communities within our service area to help identify victims of modern day slavery.

  • Victims of Trafficking and Their Needs

    There are four general areas of victim needs: * Immediate assistance - Housing, food, medical, safety and security, language interpretation and legal services * Mental health assistance - Counseling * Income assistance - Cash, living assistance * Legal status - T visa, immigration, certification

    Victims of human trafficking are vulnerable human beings who have been subjected to severe physical and emotional coercion. Trafficking victims are usually in desperate need of assistance. They need to know that once they come in contact with social service providers and law enforcement, they are safe and will be protected.

  • Choice

    You cannot make a choice to be a slave.

    Not all victims of human trafficking are undocumented.

    Not all victims have crossed international borders.

Archive for February, 2008

telenovela sobre el trafico de personas

Posted by yabastablog on February 26, 2008

Dentro de unos dias en Buenos Aires se va a estrenar una novela que se llama “Vidas robadas” (con Soledad Silveyra y Facundo Arana), que trata sobre el trafico de personas y robo de identidad.

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Plea deal reached in sex trafficking case for S.A. man

Posted by yabastablog on February 26, 2008

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/crime/stories/MYSA022608.03B.sex_slavery_plea.336471e.html

Guillermo Contreras
Express-News A San Antonio man charged with smuggling girls and young women here from Mexico to make them work at a house of prostitution had a choice between 10 years in prison or life, if convicted.

The decade in prison sounded more appealing to Timothy Michael Gereb.

Gereb, 48, became the latest to plead guilty in San Antonio’s first federal sexual trafficking case, avoiding a trial that could have resulted in the harsher sentence had he been convicted.

Gereb admitted Monday to conspiring to transport undocumented immigrants for commercial advantage and private financial gain, and to a separate count of sexual trafficking of a minor.

The transporting charge carries a maximum of 10 years, while the latter count starts at 10 years and maxes out at life.

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