Alberta pledges $4M for office to help fight human trafficking | 24CA News

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Published 28.07.2023
Alberta pledges M for office to help fight human trafficking  | 24CA News

The Alberta authorities is partnering with neighborhood teams and placing up $4 million over two years to create an workplace to fight human trafficking.

Public Safety Minster Mike Ellis says the workplace is to supply helps to these victimized by human trafficking whereas elevating public consciousness of the issue.

The province says it includes a number of areas reminiscent of intercourse trafficking, labour trafficking and the trafficking of organs.

It says within the final decade or so, greater than 3,500 circumstances of human trafficking have been reported throughout Canada.

The majority of victims are girls and ladies, and one quarter of them are below the age of 18.

It says Indigenous girls and ladies are essentially the most affected.


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