By host on 2/4/2010 10:35 AM

The government in the Philippines as stopped giving visas to women who want to work in South Korean bars near to American military bases. Reports that many of the women are forced into prostitution if they cannot sell enough drinks have lead to this renewed crack-down. It is reported, however, that women from Russia and other countries are quickly filling the gap. To read more about this story, please click here.

By host on 2/3/2010 11:19 AM

Police in the UAE Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah have arrested eight men who allegedly ran a human trafficking ring. The trafficking activity was discovered when a 20 year old woman who had arrived for domestic work was kidnapped and raped. One of her attackers left his mobile phone in the apartment where the woman was being held and she managed to phone her family who contacted the police. To read more about this case, please click here.

By host on 2/2/2010 12:51 PM

Police in Mexico City have arrested 26 suspects on charges of trafficking and prostituting women against their will. It is alleged that they forced 28 women into prostitution in hotels and parking lots. To read more about this, please click here.

By host on 1/28/2010 2:25 PM

Two trafficked girls aged 10 and 14 have been rescued in Cambodia, when a motocycle driver offered to arrange girls for the director of operations of the Australian anti-trafficking organisation The Grey Man. The man was taken to a hotel and showed the two young Vietnamese girls. The police were then contacted and working with International Justice Mission, the girls were rescued. To read more about this subject, please click here.

By host on 1/22/2010 10:46 AM

Two workers in a hotel in the Muraqqabat area of Dubai are accused of forcing dancers in the hotel night club to have sex with clients. One of the accused was in charge of bringing the women from India and had oversight of them in the hotel. The second defendent is a waiter at the hotel who is accused of driving the women to clients. The case continues. For more information, please click here.

By host on 1/5/2010 10:35 AM

Three Oregan residents have been charged with sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. The police believe that they took pictures of the underage girls and posted them on the internet before renting local hotel rooms and forcing them to have sex with clients.To read more about this incident, please click here.

By host on 12/23/2009 10:33 AM

Police have arrested Ravinder Kaur for allegedly running a brothel inside the Abhishek Hotel in the Kahnpur area of Ahmedabad. It is alleged that Ravinder brought girls to the hotel from outside the state to engage them in prostitution. Ravinder Kaur has been charged under the Immoral Trafficking Act. To read more about this, please click here.

By host on 12/11/2009 8:41 AM

Police have arrested Shankar Kumar Mishra, the manager of Delhi's Dreamland Hotel, along with a Russian woman allegedly being forced to prostitute herself, after a raid in Rajkot. Investigations are ongoing, but both have been charged under the Immoral Traffic Act. To read more, please click here

By host on 12/11/2009 8:16 AM

Brandon Thompson, 28, and 30-year-old Megan Hayes could face life in prison having being charged with trafficking minors and forcing them to have sex in the Motel 6 in Sioux Falls. The couple allegedly advertised the services as South Dakota Escorts. The age of the girs has not been disclosed by the court. To read more, please click here

By host on 11/22/2009 9:54 PM

The US State Department has issued new guidelines saying no diplomat below the rank of minister can bring any domestic servants without proof the diplomat can pay a prevailing wage. This is in part in response to 42 documented allegations of diplomats engaging in human trafficking, many in the Washington, D.C. area, according to a Government Accountability Office report. To read more, click here.

By host on 11/16/2009 1:00 AM

A young Moldovan woman who was trafficked into Israel almost 10 years ago is fighting to stay in Israel rather than being deported. Click here to read her story.

By host on 11/16/2009 12:55 AM

The British government's most recent anti-trafficking push, Operation Pentameter Two, has been more of a push against prostitution rather than trafficking and all that it encompasses, according to The Guardian. To read more on their opinion, click here.

By host on 11/16/2009 12:45 AM

The United Nations recently estimated that there are around 270,000 victims of human trafficking living in the European Union today. Many more victims are simply not known about, and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime estimate that as many as 30 times more people are affected. To read more, click here.

By host on 11/16/2009 12:42 AM

Three people in Manchester, UK were arrested for selling virgin girls between the ages of 14 and 23 for up to 50,000 pounds. To read more, click here.

By host on 11/16/2009 12:37 AM

The Buy Responsibly campaign is running television ads showing exploited workers trapped under upside-down shopping carts. It encourages consumers to understand where the goods they purchase come from and how they were developed. The International Organization for Migration points out that exploited workers provide cheap labor in "construction, agriculture, fishing, textiles and other sectors whose products end up on rich-country shop shelves." To read more, click here and visit www.buyresponsibly.org.

 

By host on 11/16/2009 12:27 AM

A gang of 13 was convicted of human trafficking in Oman and sentenced to seven years and a fine. Thirteen women were brought into Oman before being trafficked into Bahrain for prostitution by this ring. To read more, click here.

By host on 11/16/2009 12:18 AM

Despite recent changes in legislation and other new resources, victims of human trafficking in Israel continue to go undetected and without help said Ilan Cohn, senior program officer for the Center for International Migration and Integration (CIMI). To read more about the seminar, click here.

By host on 11/15/2009 11:58 PM

Police officers in Missouri, USA spoke out about their initial difficulty recognizing victims of human trafficking as victims and not as criminal prostitutes. They used their forum to encourage other police officers to identify and act on the difference. To read more, click here.

By host on 11/15/2009 11:54 PM

Police busted a human trafficking ring in Pandan Perdana, Malaysia that had been sending women and girls to Australia and forcing them into commercial sexual exploitation. Nineteen people have been arrested for human trafficking in Malaysia this year. Click here to read more.

By host on 11/15/2009 11:45 PM

In a recent study by the Indian National Commission for Women, more than half of the 612 provinces in India serve as an origin point for human trafficking. The south and east are especially affected. The report also said that at least 2.4 percent of the entire female population has been affected by commercial sexual explotation. To read more about the report, click here.