Human Trafficking Awareness Month

Dr. Kari Johnstone and Tarana Baghirova: Understanding the Evolving Landscape of Human Trafficking
AFC Challenges, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Interviews

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ACAMS Today interviewed Dr. Kari Johnstone, special representative for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, and Tarana Baghirova, programme officer at the OSCE, the world's largest regional security organization with 57 participating states throughout...
AI’s Role in Combating Human Trafficking in the Financial Sector
AFC Challenges, Human Trafficking Awareness Month

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool, offering enhanced capabilities to detect, investigate and disrupt trafficking-related financial crimes. Criminals are just as effectively, and in many cases more adeptly, leveraging these advanced technologies to recruit victims, streamline operations and obscure illicit proceeds from human...
How Human Traffickers Exploit the Financial System for Child Sexual Abuse
AFC Challenges, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, In Focus

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Human traffickers have found an unfortunate and illicit opportunity in child predators. As crimes involving child sexual abuse have reached worldwide endemic levels, crimes like the livestreaming sexual abuse of children, child sex tourism and the production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) have become...
Supporting Survivors: Partnering With Anti-Human Trafficking Organizations
AFC Challenges, Exclusive, Human Trafficking Awareness Month

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Human trafficking (HT) is widely regarded as one of the most undetected and underreported crimes globally. It exploits millions worldwide, stripping individuals of their freedom and dignity. Central to combating this scourge is the unwavering support for survivors, whose resilience and courage inspire the global...
A New Threat on the Horizon AI-Generated CSAM
ACAMS Connection, AFC Challenges, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, March – May 2024

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has opened the gates to a new horrific era in which perpetrators of crimes against children can generate ultrarealistic AI child sexual abuse material (CSAM) at the click of a button. AI-generated CSAM falls within the category of computer/digitally generated CSAM, which...
Erin West: Awareness is Key in Disrupting Financial Crimes
ACAMS Connection, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Interviews, Women in AFC

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Speaking with ACAMS Today is Erin West, deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County, California’s Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team, known as REACT. She focuses on high-tech crimes. In addition, West leads the Crypto Coalition, a group of nearly 1,400 local, state, federal and international...