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The US State Department identified a rapidly growing and troubling trend of forced labor as a result of cyber scam operations, as it launched its annual human trafficking report, US Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Cindy Dyer said Thursday.Traffickers have leveraged pandemic-related economic hardships, increased global youth unemployment, and international travel restrictions to exploit thousands of adults and children in a multi-billion dollar industry over the last two years in these schemes, she said at a State Department briefing.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Asylum seekers facing removal to Rwanda can appeal against Home Office decisions over alleged errors in the consideration of whether relocation poses a risk to their human rights, a judge has ruled.

Ms Begum, 23, fled Britain to join Islamic State (IS) in 2015 as a teenager but has since argued that she is stateless and not a threat to the UK.Ms Begum's barristers Samantha Knights KC and Dan Squires KC said at a hearing last year that she was "recruited, transported, transferred, harboured and received in Syria for 'sexual exploitation' and 'marriage' to an adult male".

Shamim Begum believes any public anger she faces is actually intended towards Isis, the former convert has told a new podcast.The former British national, who was stripped of her citizenship, said she understands the public now see her as a danger and potential risk to them, to their safety, to their way of living.

All asylum seekers who have been trafficked or are victims of modern slavery would be sent back to the countries they left, under hardline plans put forward by 50 Tory MPs.The group  led by former cabinet ministers David Davis, Liam Fox and Esther McVey  claims the move would be a common sense solution to the crisis of small boats crossing the Channel.

Rishi Sunak has been urged by more than 50 Tory MPs to change modern slavery laws with emergency legislation in a bid to reduce small boat crossings of the Channel.The Prime Minister was pressed by the group, including former cabinet ministers, to rapidly implement a simple change in the law to help tackle the issue.