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More than 45 community advocates, law enforcement officials and other professionals gathered on campus this summer for free training offered by the Western New York Human Trafficking Task Force. The training on July 29, sponsored by the ILR School Outreach Division, was facilitated by Professors Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau of the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Basu and Chau have conducted related research on transnational trafficking of women and children. Kerry Battenfeld, a community educator and advocate at the International Institute of Buffalo, offered an overview of human trafficking in Western New York. She described the often overlooked "red flags" of trafficking - dependence on a "friend" or co-worker to answer questions, emotional trauma symptoms and untreated injuries. Battenfeld acknowledged that recognizing trafficking can be difficult for a variety of reasons. "Victims tend to be isolated, so they're not in places where you might come into with them..
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