Our View / End exploitation; learn to spot sex trafficking
From the editorial: No one should be pressured to exchange sex acts for a warm place to stay, for a bite to eat, to feed a drug addiction, to avoid a beating, or because they feel they have no other option. Sadly, that s what s happening, though. And yes, here in the Twin Ports. Every day.
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News Tribune Editorial Board | 10:00 am, Jan. 12, 2021 ×
Sexual exploitation and the buying and selling of children and vulnerable others happens here in Duluth every day, a leader of the Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault, or PAVSA, once said in an interview with News Tribune Editorial Board members.
Sex trafficking could spike near Enbridge pipeline project, Minnesota warns Native women particularly vulnerable to trafficking as Enbridge builds new Line 3. January 8, 2021 9:23pm Text size Copy shortlink:
DULUTH – Among the thousands of pages of documents filed in the Enbridge Line 3 permitting process, state regulators made a striking conclusion about construction on the pipeline: The addition of a temporary, cash-rich workforce increases the likelihood that sex trafficking or sexual abuse will occur.
Advocates, law enforcement, the company and unions are working to ensure that isn t the case as work on the $2.6 billion pipeline across northern Minnesota enters its second month of construction.
Is sex trafficking inevitable along Enbridge pipeline route? Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune
DULUTH Among the thousands of pages of documents filed in the Enbridge Line 3 permitting process, state regulators made a striking conclusion about construction on the pipeline: The addition of a temporary, cash-rich workforce increases the likelihood that sex trafficking or sexual abuse will occur.
Advocates, law enforcement, the company and unions are working to ensure that isn t the case as work on the $2.6 billion pipeline across northern Minnesota enters its second month of construction. This is a very real problem that affects all walks of life, all colors, males and females, though we do see higher levels in Indigenous communities and in communities of color that tend to be lower-income, said Sheila Lamb, a youth advocate and member of the state Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force. I think the best thing we can do as community members is to assum
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DULUTH Among the thousands of pages of documents filed in the Enbridge Line 3 permitting process, state regulators made a striking conclusion about construction on the pipeline: The addition of a temporary, cash-rich workforce increases the likelihood that sex trafficking or sexual abuse will occur.
Advocates, law enforcement, the company and unions are working to ensure that isn t the case as work on the $2.6 billion pipeline across northern Minnesota enters its second month of construction. This is a very real problem that affects all walks of life, all colors, males and females, though we do see higher levels in Indigenous communities and in communities of color that tend to be lower-income, said Sheila Lamb, a youth advocate and member of the state Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force. I think the best thing we can do as community members is to assume this is rampant and to take a stance that we will do anything in our