By host on 4/29/2005 7:54 AM

Since the banning of the use of children as camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates children have begun to return home to countries such as Pakistan. The difficult process of reintegration must now begin. A shelter in Karachi has reported that many Read More »

By host on 4/29/2005 7:49 AM

Human trafficking is “wreaking havock” in the Caribbean according to Caricom (The Caribbean Community Secretariat). Haitians and Dominican Republicans are believed to be among the two source countries for trafficking within the region. The increase i Read More »

By host on 4/28/2005 7:05 AM

Edik Baghdasarian, an Armenian investigative reporter, and Ara Manoogian, an Armenian-American activist have conducted a two year long investigation into trafficking rings which are selling Armenian women into prostitution in Dubai. Not only have the Read More »

By host on 4/28/2005 7:03 AM

A US state department committee reporting on the human rights situation in North Korea has highlighted not only abuses going on inside the country, but has also mentioned the large numbers of North Korean citizens who have fled the country and are hi Read More »

By host on 4/27/2005 1:31 PM

Human rights activists have called on the governments of south-east Asia to do more to end child prostitution and child trafficking, as the problem is getting worse. Although there is some co-operation in the region, NGOs are asking that more be done Read More »

By host on 4/27/2005 9:38 AM

Two men pleaded guilty in a Virginia state (USA) court yesterday to conspiracy to traffic young Indonesian girls to work as prostitutes and nude dancers. Hans Gouw and Harjanto Komala, both Indonesians resident in the US pleaded guilty to charges of Read More »

By host on 4/27/2005 9:17 AM

Finnish police recently arrested a man on suspicion of having sexually abused 445 Thai boys during the period 1989 to 2004. The 43 year old man from the south east of Finland was arrested in Finland after Belgian police had become aware that he had b Read More »

By host on 4/26/2005 1:12 PM

A 19 year old Moldovan woman who fell from a sixth story window while trying to escape from her traffickers is to be taken to the US for treatment. Congress woman Kay Granger (R-Fort Worth) discovered the girl while on a fact finding tour of Albania, Read More »

By host on 4/26/2005 10:09 AM

A recent report by the Inter Agency Standing Committee of the United Nations has highlighted the deteriorating humanitarian and human rights situation in the Ivory Coast. Since the civil war in 2002, the country has been divided between the rebel For Read More »

By host on 4/26/2005 9:23 AM

Ten people suspected of trafficking children were granted bail yesterday by a court in Lagos, Nigeria, more than two months after 52 children between the ages of 1 and 14 were found in a locked shipping container on a lorry. The children were rescued Read More »

By host on 4/25/2005 10:20 AM

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand has set up a national committee to try to tackle the huge problem of human trafficking that exists in the country, particularly along the Thai/Myanmar (Burma) border. The committee will be chaired by the Read More »

By host on 4/25/2005 9:26 AM

Paul Fishstein, the Deputy Director for Research at the UN Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has described the migration situation between Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran which leaves many Afghans in danger of exploitation and human traf Read More »

By host on 4/25/2005 8:53 AM

The UN human rights office in Geneva has signed an accord with the government of Nepal to try to stem the tide of human rights abuses which are occurring due to the nine year old civil war. It is estimated that as many as 2 million Nepalese have cros Read More »

By host on 4/22/2005 11:41 AM

Women’s groups across the city of Mumbai have come together to protest against the banning of dance bars in the state of Maharashtra. In these bars women dance for customers and can at times be involved in prostitution. Groups such as The Forum Again Read More »

By host on 4/22/2005 9:40 AM

Traffickers are becoming increasingly brutal and are developing better strategies for contacting their victims over the internet, at schools and at youth groups, according to a report by UNICEF on the countries of south-eastern Europe. The report whi Read More »

By host on 4/22/2005 9:22 AM

In an astonishing statement yesterday Chris de Kock, head of the South African police crime information analysis centre said that there was no clear evidence of human trafficking in the country. He also claimed that reports of 35,000 child prostitute Read More »

By host on 4/21/2005 1:39 PM

Ernst-Joerg von Studnitz the former German ambassador to Russia is due to testify at an enquiry into the effects of the radical loosening of visa requirements by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer between 2000 and 2003. Hundreds of thousands of Read More »

By host on 4/21/2005 10:10 AM

In Yemen a children’s parliament was formed three years ago and now sits annually to speak about matters effecting children. This year the focus was on the huge problem of child trafficking which exists in Yemen. Every year thousands of children are Read More »

By host on 4/21/2005 9:54 AM

Last month saw another attempt to ban the use of child jockeys in the United Arab Emirates. Hundreds of children had been trafficked and abused into riding camels in races which endangered their health. They were also poorly fed to keep their weight Read More »

By host on 4/20/2005 2:41 PM

Greek health minister Nikitas Kaklamanis has claimed that NGOs are inflating statistics of women and children being trafficked into sex slavery in Greece in order to get money from the EU. Despite this claim, Greece is on the “Tier 2 watch list” of t Read More »