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Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY One of Utah’s top business leaders is joining the fight against human exploitation.
This week, Salt Lake Chamber President and CEO Derek Miller was appointed to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Task Force to Eradicate Human Trafficking. The assignment highlights a nationwide effort by business and industry to prioritize ongoing efforts in the fight for freedom for those impacted by the illegal practice of human trafficking, he said.
“There’s not always really obvious connection between human trafficking and business,” Miller said. “Really, the connection, our focus, is on making sure that businesses understand best practices in their supply chain, meaning sometimes there’s not transparency between where a business may be getting its products and where it may be getting their goods manufactured. Unfortunately, the reality is that sometimes products are made with forced labor, sometimes even child
Bella’s experience is not rare; it was part of an organized criminal enterprise that systematically trafficked children for forced labor, according to Hounakey, who is now an advocate for trafficking survivors. More than 20 children worked alongside her, forced to provide services, such as braiding, in a hair salon operated by her traffickers.
Hounakey’s story is emblematic of the global trafficking of child laborers between countries thousands of miles apart. Yet children are trafficked every day in their own countries as well.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Affairs (ILAB) works to put an end to these serious abuses around the world. We use a three-pronged approach, employing cutting-edge research and reporting, engagement with foreign governments and other stakeholders, and technical assistance projects.
WATERTOWN — Nearly six years after Haley J. Recor was first targeted, her mother anguishes over the certainty that her daughter is still caught up in the world of human
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Fotis Dulos on Thursday filed a motion seeking to have charges of tampering dismissed. The motion, which doesn’t address a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, focuses on police evidence that Troconis accompanied Fotis Dulos in dumping bags of items, some of which were later found to have
Jennifer Dulos’s blood, at receptacles around Hartford. The body Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five who went missing May 24, 2019, has never been found. In New Canaan, rocks painted in her memory with the message “Justice for Jennifer” continue to be placed around and inside the
Stacie Petter
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month, highlighting a complex problem that challenges communities close to home and around the world. Stacie Petter, the Ben H. Williams Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics, uniquely applies her discipline to combat trafficking and slavery. In this Baylor Connections, Petter shares information systems’ role in that fight and explains how a grant from the National Science Foundation will help equip law enforcement with resources to identify and prosecute trafficking in their area.
Transcript
Derek Smith:
Hello, and welcome to Baylor Connections, a conversation series with the people shaping our future. Each week, we go in depth with Baylor leaders, professors and more, discussing important topics in higher education, research and student life. I m Derek Smith and our guest today is Dr. Stacie Petter. Dr. Petter serves as the Ben H. Williams Professor of Information Systems and Busines