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How Trump’s new tariff push is using a good idea in the worst way

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By Martina E. Vandenberg
| Yahoo Verified
Last week, U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer announced a new round of sweeping tariffs against 60 countries, which collectively account for more than 99.4% of U.S. trade. After the Supreme Court toppled President Donald Trump's original tariff regime, Greer took steps to make sure these tariffs would stick. In launching the investigation that justifies the new tariffs, the U.S. trade representative set a test that countries were doomed to fail.
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Opinion: Rethinking human trafficking Original

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By Martina E. Vandenberg, Kehinde Togun
| CNN Verified
Editor’s Note: Martina E. Vandenberg is the founder and president of The Human Trafficking Legal Center, which she established in 2012. She has represented victims of human trafficking pro bono in immigration, criminal, and civil cases, and has also testified before multiple House and Senate Committees on issues ranging from human trafficking and peacekeeping to forced labor in global supply chains.
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War on the Rocks

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By Ian Urbina, Martina E. Vandenberg, Doyle Hodges
| War on the Rocks Verified
November 23, 2020 For many people, terms like “piracy,” “stowaway,” and “kidnapped” conjure up romantic visions influenced by the literature of Robert Louis Stevenson or C.S. Forester. But as this episode’s guests tell us, these terms actually have deadly serious meanings without much romance and with a great deal of grim reality to them.
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Modern-day slaves are suing the traffickers

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By Martina E. Vandenberg
| WDSU-TV (New Orleans, LA) Verified
Strategic litigation broke the back of the British slave trade. In 1772, James Somerset, an escaped slave brought to England by his owner, Charles Stewart, sued for his freedom. In the case Somerset vs Stewart, the Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, ruled that no slave could be forcibly returned to a colony for sale. Somerset was the first salvo in a series of anti-slavery civil cases brought in British courts. Those cases helped end the transatlantic trade in slaves.
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Modern-day slaves are suing the traffickers

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By Nick Grono, Martina E. Vandenberg
| CNN Verified
Somerset was the first salvo in a series of anti-slavery civil cases brought in British courts. Those cases helped end the transatlantic trade in slaves. Nearly 250 years later, activists are again turning to strategic litigation to fight the modern day slave trade. The dirty secret of today's human trafficking is that almost no one is held accountable. Modern-day slavery, particularly in the transnational supply chains of major international corporations, is too often a risk-free proposition.
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