By host on 5/30/2005 10:23 AM

Turkey amended its penal code last Friday to include more rights for women and children and also harsher penalties against rape, paedophilia and human trafficking. The government had to rush the changes through as a prerequisite for the start of acce Read More »

By host on 5/30/2005 9:55 AM

According to the Irish newspaper Sunday Business Post, Irish Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell is drafting new legislation to combat the trafficking of “foreign nationals” for exploitation by forced labour and prostitution. Although it is claime

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By host on 5/27/2005 11:05 AM

Thai government sources have told the NGO Human Rights Watch that there is a major Burmese army offensive going on in Shan State, over the border from northern Thailand. The operation is a counter-insurgency measure against the Shan State Army. There Read More »

By host on 5/27/2005 10:48 AM

A UN refugee official was charged yesterday with human trafficking. Rashidoon Khan, a Pakistani national, was working for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the UN administered province of Kosovo in south-eastern Europe. He was charged by an in Read More »

By host on 5/26/2005 10:02 AM

The Thai government has announced that it will set up a special lottery to raise start up money for its new initiative to help the victims of human trafficking. The scheme hopes to raise US$ 2.5 million to use in the fight against trafficking. The ne Read More »

By host on 5/26/2005 9:41 AM

The Japanese National Police Agency is planning to distribute more than 1 million copies of a leaflet which will help victims of human trafficking. The leaflet, which is written in Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Thai, explains that i Read More »

By host on 5/25/2005 9:32 AM

Controversy still rages in South Africa over the need for anti-trafficking legislation. A recent report by the Law Association claimed that South Africa has a huge problem and that human trafficking needs to be made a specific offence. A recent paper Read More »

By host on 5/25/2005 9:03 AM

California state government is today considering a new measure which will make human trafficking a crime under state law and allow for a prison sentence of 6 years for trafficking an adult and eight years for trafficking a minor. The law would also Read More »

By host on 5/24/2005 9:32 AM

In Pakistan the government is considering setting up special courts empowered to give stricter sentences to human traffickers and also to deal with the cases more quickly, particularly as a long delay may make it less likely that the victims are avai Read More »

By host on 5/24/2005 9:10 AM

An average of nine people are reported missing in South Africa every day and many of them may have been trafficked. On Monday the South African Law Commission reported that South Africa has a huge problem with human trafficking, and there is no legis Read More »

By host on 5/23/2005 1:07 PM

A recent report from the UN’s International Labour Organisation has underlined the problem of human trafficking and slavery in Germany. Of the 360,000 people trapped in slave labour in industrialised countries the report estimates that there are 15,0 Read More »

By host on 5/23/2005 9:40 AM

In the city of Chennai in south India, there are plans to set up special child friendly police stations to deal with crimes committed against children, including human trafficking. There is an increasing problem with the trafficking of children, part Read More »

By host on 5/23/2005 9:20 AM

A senior Thai policeman has said that there has been no reduction in human trafficking in the north of the country because the authorities are not taking it seriously. Pol Lt-Col Somsong Monthakul, who is an inspector with provincial police division Read More »

By host on 5/20/2005 1:22 PM

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has expressed concern for 400,000 internally displaced young people in Colombia. They are vulnerable to human trafficking as well as violence, drug abuse and murder. Those who are trafficked could be forced int Read More »

By host on 5/20/2005 10:03 AM

Kenyan Immigration Minister Linah Chebii Kilimo has lead a police raid to release five Indian women who were forced to work as entertainers at a night club and then locked up during the day. Their documents were removed from them and they were given Read More »

By host on 5/20/2005 9:33 AM

Thousands of Indians are regularly trafficking into prostitution and forced labour. Although cross border human trafficking is a major problem, in fact recent reports suggest that 89% of trafficking in India is inter-state and not from abroad. Not on Read More »

By host on 5/19/2005 9:26 AM

The government of Kosovo has approved an action plan to help in the fight against human trafficking. The plan will aim to prevent trafficking, protect the victims and bring the traffickers to justice. Daut Dauti, a spokesman for the government said t Read More »

By host on 5/19/2005 9:16 AM

Vietnamese and Chinese police have discovered a human trafficking ring which sold women across the border between the two countries. The ring, headed by Le Quoc Dung from central Thanh Hoa province had promised good jobs to 40 women and then sold the Read More »

By host on 5/18/2005 4:06 PM

Helga Konrad, the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe) Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings is in the Central Asian republic of Taji Read More »

By host on 5/18/2005 9:33 AM

Spanish authorities have arrested two Bulgarian men on charges of human trafficking. It is alleged that they locked up two women, a Romanian and a Bulgarian in a room in Malaga and forced them to work as prostitutes. The men are accused of luring the Read More »