The Latest Breaking News from Trafficking

Kash Patel Faces Brutal Senate Grilling Over FBI Decision To Drop Bestiality From Automatic Hiring Disqualification

FBI Director Kash Patel defended revised hiring rules before senators, saying the removal of bestiality as an automatic disqualification would prevent trafficking victims from being unfairly rejected.

International Business Times UK · Sep 16

FBI Bestiality Hiring Rule Explained: Why Kash Patel Scrapped Automatic Ban and Senators Are Alarmed

FBI Director Kash Patel defended revised hiring standards before senators, saying they could prevent trafficking victims from automatic exclusion while lawmakers questioned the policy's wording, risks and approval process.

International Business Times UK · Sep 16

Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners

Tory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave trade

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15

California’s Infamous “Racist Karen” Finally Faces Karma As She’s Arrested In San Jose

The infamous San Jose “Racist Karen” was linked to several incidents around the city.

Bored Panda · Sep 14

Trafficking Risk Spurs Vigilance: NGOs, officials step up checks on flood-hit children; over 1,200 in camps

DEHRADUN:The risk of child trafficking has risen sharply in flood-hit Nepal, where at least 1,283 children are living in relief camps and 102 have no family members with them, prompting anti-trafficking groups to plan road checkposts, identify vulnerable children and monitor camps in areas devastated by the Aug 26 flash…

The Times of India · Sep 14

The London hospital funded by donors who invested in the slave trade

Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14

Slavery was not a footnote to British history. It helped shape the nation

Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14

The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14

Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain’s slave-trading past

Exclusive: New research identifies thousands who profited from trafficking enslaved Africans and traces some financial links to institutions still operating today

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14