Category: Sex trafficking

So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde

Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys?Fair play to Bill Gates’s ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, a woman who...

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Lisa Bloom on the fight for Epstein’s victims: ‘So many powerful men were enablers’

The US lawyer on her fearsome reputation, the criticism she faced for advising Harvey Weinstein, and how 40 years of legal experience did not prepare her for the Epstein filesIf Lisa Bloom had been advising Peter Mandelson or...

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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men,...

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More than 1,500 child trafficking victims in UK feared back with exploiters

Children’s commissioner warns referral mechanism does not offer sufficient protection, after FoI data reveals scale of problemUK politics live – latest updatesThe children’s commissioner for England has warned...

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Home Office U-turns on policy to restrict help for trafficking victims

Rights groups welcome change to Braverman policy that denied support to people with criminal convictionsUK politics live – latest updatesThe Home Office has performed a U-turn on a policy to deprive some modern slavery...

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Rishi Sunak refuses to back Braverman’s widely criticised claim about racial nature of grooming gangs – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest full report on this story here:No 10 denies using dog-whistle politics in grooming gangs crackdownStarmer says he has not talked to Jeremy Corbyn for two and a half years.Q:...

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Rishi Sunak refuses to back Braverman’s widely criticised claim about racial nature of grooming gangs – live

Prime minister says offenders have been protected by ‘political correctness’ as he announces ‘grooming gangs taskforce’ Starmer says he has not talked to Jeremy Corbyn for two and a half years.Q: Is he a...

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Starmer says majority of sexual abuse cases do not involve ethnic minorities after Sunak’s ‘political correctness’ claim – UK politics live

Prime minister says offenders have been protected by ‘political correctness’ as he announces ‘grooming gangs taskforce’ Starmer says he has not talked to Jeremy Corbyn for two and a half years.Q: Is he a...

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