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Overlooked for Too Long: Boys and Human Trafficking.

Boys represent the fastest-growing segment of identified human trafficking victims. UNODC’s 2022Global Report on Trafficking in
Persons, released in January 2023, notes that the percentage of boys identified as victims of human trafficking more than quintupled between 2004 and 2020—a much larger increase than for men, women, or girls. The same report notes males (including boys and men) account for 40 percent of all identified victims of human trafficking. While women constitute about twice the percentage of identified trafficking victims as men (42 percent to 23 percent), the percentage of trafficking victims who are boys and girls is almost identical (17 percent and 18 percent, respectively).

The growing awareness of boys exploited in human trafficking is fairly recent. While male trafficking victims are receiving more attention than in years past, “social and health services as well as legal and advocacy frameworks still predominantly focus on female victims of sexual exploitation,” according to the UNODC report. Media and civil society groups alike consistently refer to boys and adolescent male human trafficking victims as “unseen and unhelped,” a “silenced minority,” “invisible,” or “secret victims.”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on January 11^th, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) reintroduced a package of four bills to combat human trafficking, including the SAVE Girls Act, National Human Trafficking Database Act, End Child Trafficking Now Act, and PRINTS Act. Read more about this legislation below.  

Good morning, Warriors.

We are devastated for all of the people and communities impacted by the California fires. We thank the firefighters, first responders, National Guard and all of the organizations working to house and feed people.

Please keep your eyes and ears open during this horrific time in the LA area. If you see or hear anything, like displaced kids or teens, something just does not seem right, please don’t hesitate to step up. Call 911 immediately, and since resources are strained, please just ask someone if they are ok. You might make all the difference.

Please join the Warriors in supporting our fellow Americans. Do what you can. Imagine losing everything. Incomprehensible. The children must be scared. Families scared. Let us pray for everyone.

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The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Friday morning on whether to overturn or delay a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S. in the coming days.

The law is set to take effect on Jan. 19, nine months after it swiftly passed Congress with bipartisan support and was signed into law by President Biden. It requires the widely popular app to cut ties with its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or lose access to app stores and web-hosting services in the U.S. The law also gives the president the ability to grant a 90-day delay in its implementation if a sale is in progress.

The case pits the First Amendment’s right to free speech against what the federal government and lawmakers say are threats to national security posed by TikTok. The Supreme Court moved with extraordinary speed in considering the case, agreeing to take up the dispute just two days after lawyers for the platform sought its intervention on an emergency basis.

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Dramatic video footage showed an alleged pedophile doctor being arrested by a fleet of police while driving with his stunned wife and mother-in-law.

Dr Stephen Andrew Leedy was arrested December 19 over claims he got children to sent him sex images and helped one girl kill herself, with bodycam footage of that apprehension shared Tuesday.

Officers had been on the look out for the 59-year-old palliative care specialist after a warrant for his arrest was issued in his home state of Florida.

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The Republican-led House passed its first bill of the new Congress on Tuesday — a strict border measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student whose murder last year by an immigrant in the country illegally became a flashpoint in the presidential campaign.

The 264-159 vote to pass the Laken Riley Act puts pressure on Senate Democrats to support the legislation when Republicans, who now control the upper chamber, bring it to the floor for an initial vote Friday, which would have been Riley’s 23rd birthday.

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