This hearing was called by the Committee on Financial Services of the  U.S. House of Representatives and focused on illicit financial flows and the key role of the banking industry in combating human trafficking.

This hearing examines how financial institution’s monitor, review, and verify depository relations with a payment processor. In particular, the Subcommittee seeks to better understand potential problems and long-term challenges that exist, including examples of how human traffickers avoid detection.

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10 Countries Most Afflicted By Modern Slavery
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This documentary talks about the ten countries with the most people in modern slavery (victims of human trafficking), based on data and findings of the Global Slavery Index 2016. Video researched, written, narrated, and directed by Bryce Plank. ...Read More

TAGS: Global
Webinar: Safeguarding Human Rights Defenders
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The Investor Alliance for Human Rights hosted this webinar to inform how institutional investors can be connected to harmful impacts on human rights defenders through their investments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI3GGOMTkEk ...Read More

Cybercrime and Human Rights
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When: April 8, 2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

On the 8th April, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime co-hosted a webinar with the UN Global Compact on 21st Century cybercrime threats and the challenges they present to human security and human rights. The panel featured the following speakers drawn...

Human Trafficking and the Illicit Cigarette Trade: Global Consequences
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When: May 17, 2018 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

The illicit trade of cigarettes has become a multi-billion dollar business today and has taken centre stage in the global debate in the last few years. There are various ways in describing the illicit cigarette trade: contraband, counterfeit, illicit whites,...

TAGS: Global