With new US law, trafficked children no longer need to testify in court

Under a United Nations measure known as the Palermo Protocol, children do not have to prove they were trafficked, said Romina Canessa, a trafficking expert at the rights group Equality Now. Elsewhere in the US, Alabama last month lifted its requirement for coercion or deception to be proven in cases of child sex trafficking.

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