American Gaming Association Initiates Program to Combat Human Trafficking
The American Gaming Association (AGA) has developed a programme to combat human trafficking indoors commercial-grade and tribal casinos across the nation.
The same calendar week that Ghislaine James Clerk Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years inward prison for her role inward trafficking underage girls inward component part of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long scheme, the AGA unveiled its number one Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force. The committee’s 1st point of byplay is publishing what it calls a unexampled resource tailored toward bolstering the gaming industry’s efforts to disembarrass casinos of being used for human trafficking.
The AGA, our members, and the full gaming manufacture are committed to stamping out all forms of human trafficking,” said AGA President and CEO Bill Miller. “Through the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, we testament go along to bring the industry together to defeat this evilness and pervasive human rights offense.”
The AGA Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force seeks to build on efforts already initiated inward the gaming and hospitality industries. The commission will process with non-profit-making partners such as the pole star Project, as wellspring as the US Homeland Security, Justice, and Treasury departments.
What is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking involves the enjoyment of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some typewrite of drudge or commercial-grade gender act. Every year, millions of men, women, and children are trafficked world-wide — including right wing hither inward the United States. It can occur inward any biotic community and victims tin can follow of any age, race, gender, or nationality. Traffickers might use violence, manipulation, or untrue promises of well-paying jobs or romantic relationships to enticement victims into trafficking situations. — US State Department
Five-Point Action Plan
The American Gaming Industry’s Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force says it testament focussing on education, empowerment, and prevention. The task thrust is dictated to ameliorate civilize both gambling casino workers and patrons regarding what constitutes human trafficking, the risks it poses to the industry, and how anyone can buoy potentially intervene.
The AGA grouping plans to also increment training programs made uncommitted for casino workers to facilitate prevent such trafficking from occurring inward and around casinos. The industry swop group adds that patch to the highest degree of its fellow member gambling casino operators already have in-depth anti-trafficking protocols in place, the task force testament supplement those safeguards.
“While many gaming companies already have robust anti-human trafficking policies, this draw will help as an essential tool for the industry to assess and beef up its electric current protocols,” explained Alex Costello, AGA’s vice chair of government relations.
Casinos Targeted
Commercial and tribal gambling casino floors hold for decades been prime of life venues for felonious networks seeking to traffic humans.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says traffickers typically direct people who are vulnerable and desperate. And unfortunately, such people shoot down on their chance put up often be found inwards and around casinos.
Within cassino gaming establishments, the sex trafficking facet of human trafficking is the to the highest degree usual take shape of this crime. Casino crowds and co-located lodging facilities — coupled with the transient nature of sexual urge trafficking — supply convenience and underwrite for gender traffickers,” explains the polar star Project.
The US State Department adds that California, New York, and Texas are to the highest degree prostrate to human trafficking activity.