trafficking

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The 47-year-old lawyer promised to build supermax prisons in the Amazon while reinforcing the army to smash trafficking groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Federal authorities charged a Daly City man in an international trafficking plot to smuggle nearly 300 poached loggerhead musk turtles from Florida to Taiwan.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

He urged "a law that clearly establishes the principle that the crimes of trafficking and slavery have caused lasting historical, cultural, social, economic and psychological harm".

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

The judgement as to how far a victim can also be termed an accomplice is nuanced, says Bridgette Carr, professor of clinical law at Michigan University, who has worked extensively with victims of human trafficking.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende