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Feb 2023
39m 6s

Human Trafficking – Our Country, Every C...

Ambassador (Retired) Pete Romero and Writer/Producer Laura Bennett
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Who can become a sex or labor trafficking victim? Anyone. We all need food and shelter; we all need to provide for our children, just to name a few. Traffickers are expert at exploiting our needs. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, Director of the ASU Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research, helps us understand in depth how it is that Arizona, and the rest of the United States, and every country in the world, are impacted, both domestically and through immigration – after all, who leaves their home country? The desperate. And the desperate are exactly the target for traffickers. Watch Dominique’s TedX talk and prepare to be amazed.

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