By host on 3/30/2005 1:18 PM

Salgaa in Kenya used to be a truck stop with a reputation for mud and prostitution. Now due to investment in hotels, bars and restaurants it has grown to a population of 50,000. It still has hundreds of women working as prostitutes. With prices as lo Read More »

By host on 3/30/2005 9:25 AM

Asker Mammedov, 31, formerly of Azerbaijan has been accused of running a prostitution and trafficking ring in Brooklyn, USA. FBI agents accused him of importing women from Azerbaijan and forcing them to work for little or no pay as prostitutes. He is Read More »

By host on 3/30/2005 8:48 AM

San Diego is a major target for human traffickers and with more than 17,000 women children and men being trafficked into the US every year, the county has received a federal grant of US$450,000 to help to deal with the problem. Situated directly on t Read More »

By host on 3/29/2005 4:30 PM

Large scale poverty in Uzbekistan has lead to approximately 600,000 Uzbeks seeking work illegally in Russia and Kazakhstan. With the average monthly wage in the cities at less than US$30 per month and in rural areas US$10, it is not surprising that p Read More »

By host on 3/29/2005 11:54 AM

Bhagyaraj used to have a kiosk selling utensils until the Tsunami washed it away. Now he is trying to get a middle man to take his 14 year old to the city to work as a domestic. It has become too hard to feed her at home. He lost two other daughters Read More »

By host on 3/29/2005 11:35 AM

Despite recent efforts by the authorities in the UAE, the trafficking of young boys into the Arab state to be used as camel jockeys is still a major problem. John Miller, the director of the US office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons said Read More »

By host on 3/28/2005 7:22 PM

“I think there has not been emphasis on rich destination countries probably maybe subconsciously there was more emphasis on source countries, poorer source countries …. In this coming report we are going to focus more on destination countries and dem Read More »

By host on 3/28/2005 9:51 AM

Human trafficking is a huge problem in Columbia, with approximately 50,000 Columbians having been trafficked into forced prostitution and forced labour. Often people will migrate from rural areas into the city to find work and so become vulnerable to Read More »

By host on 3/28/2005 9:25 AM

The governments of Sweden and the US will provide assistance to 12 Eastern European countries in their fight against human trafficking, a human rights abuse which is rife in the area. The two governments will provide $US 330,000 each to finance non-g Read More »

By host on 3/25/2005 12:22 PM

India may face sanctions from the US over its failure to deal seriously with the problem of trafficking of women and children. The US pointed particularly to the lack of prosecutions in Kolkata and Mumbai, two cities which have a major problem with t Read More »

By host on 3/25/2005 11:01 AM

Police investigating brothels in Chicago started to notice something was strange. Many of the women were from abroad and spoke little English. They had one suitcase that they lived out of and they had airline tickets for travel all over the United St Read More »

By host on 3/25/2005 10:34 AM

The first eastern Africa conference on trafficking in people was held in Kampala last week. The delegates claimed that many foreign adoptions were in fact a cover for trafficking into domestic service and sex slavery. Ugandan police chiefs claimed th

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By host on 3/24/2005 11:51 AM

Soy Phalla lost her job in a Cambodian garments factory. The $45 a month that helped her survive has now disappeared. Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh admits that 26,000 workers have already lost their jobs this year - around 10 percent of the entire g Read More »

By host on 3/24/2005 11:00 AM

Between 3,000 and 5,000 women have been trafficked to Israel according to a report by the Knesset sub-committee on trafficking in women released on Wednesday. The women are sold to pimps for between $8,000 and $10,000 and work 14 to 18 hour days, 7 d Read More »

By host on 3/24/2005 10:35 AM

Three mutilated bodies have been found in Croatian waters in the last week. Police believe that they may be linked to human trafficking from Albania to Italy. Autopsies revealed that the bodies had been mutilated after death. One body was found in wa Read More »

By host on 3/23/2005 3:30 PM

A Finnish man is facing charges in Latvia of being part of an criminal ring trafficking women into forced prostitution. At least some of the trafficked women were underage. The trial, which is not open to the public, will take about three weeks to c Read More »

By host on 3/23/2005 10:21 AM

Thousands of young children are being trafficked from Yemen into Saudi Arabia every year according to the UN. Extreme poverty in the north of Yemen has lead to parents giving their children to traffickers who take them across the border to find work. Read More »

By host on 3/23/2005 9:53 AM

The former United States Ambassador to Madagascar was recently quoted as saying, "Botswana is among countries considered as sources for children and women sex slaves." In addition to this the International Organisation for Migration conducted a resea Read More »

By host on 3/22/2005 5:24 PM

Such is the problem with poverty in the Philippines that 3,000 Filipinos leave to work abroad every day. About 65% of these people are women. 15% of Filipino families reply on money being sent home from abroad. Given this mass movement of people in s Read More »

By host on 3/22/2005 10:37 AM

As the Council of Europe reviews the Draft Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings, ready for its adoption on March 23rd, four major NGOs have called for it to be amended in order to better recognise the human rights of those who have been tra Read More »