Targeting trafficking

Posted February 9, 2015 2:57 PM

Trakul Winitnaiyapak, attorney general of Thailand, spoke Feb. 6 at a conference on human trafficking at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. The conference drew about 75 attendees. Read the story»

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