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The purpose of this agreement was to protect women, young and old, from being involved in "white slave traffic." White slavery referred to forcing or deceiving a white woman or girl into prostitution.
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two major studies were conducted, one in the West and one in the East, in an attempt to find out the real status of trafficking in these areas.
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The women were housed in what were known as "comfort stations." The conditions in these stations were atrocious, with each woman detained in a small cubicle
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Many of the arrests that were made were for sex workers due to soliciting, and they ultimately lost everything.
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enforcing international conventions on trafficking and human slavery, address the factors that encourage trafficking, set up effective law enforcement and institutions who would work to eliminate trafficking both nationally and internationally
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non-profit working to stop human trafficking Their key developments include a national, toll-free hotline where they receive information or reports regarding human trafficking
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There were 67 survivors of the journey, and they told of how they had hopes of finding work in Thailand, but conditions in the lorry suddenly became unbearable.
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They were discovered by the National Immigration Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. A total of 74 suspects from the trafficking ring were brought in for investigation ("Largest").
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On this day, various individual, as well as group events took place in an attempt to increase awareness about human trafficking among the general public.
