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The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
12-17-2014
Keywords
Human trafficking; Shut Out Trafficking; Campaign; Community-awareness; Slaves; Sex trade; People of color; Organized crime; Florida Abolitionist
Introduction
You may have read in early December that 61 people were arrested across Florida in a four-day human-trafficking sting operation. If you haven’t followed the dramatic increase in stories about human trafficking in the United States, this news may have caught you by surprise.
Subjects
Creator (Linked Data)
Lapchick, Richard Edward(VIAF); Lapchick, Richard Edward(LC)
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
Source
https://today.ucf.edu/cant-keep-eyes-closed-human-trafficking-around-us/ (UCF Today: UCF Forum)
Type
article
STARS Citation
Lapchick, Richard (2014). No longer can we keep our eyes closed to human trafficking all around us. UCF Today, 2014-12-17. Retrieved from https://today.ucf.edu/cant-keep-eyes-closed-human-trafficking-around-us/
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