By host on 6/29/2005 9:37 AM

There were demonstrations in front of the Papasitos Adult Daycare in Mission, south Texas yesterday when it became known that Juan and Judith Ramos had been arrested on human trafficking charges. The demonstrators were angry that the couple had alleg Read More »

By host on 6/28/2005 9:49 AM

A recent affidavit filed with the US immigration authorities alleges that a Kuwaiti diplomat enslaved and abused his Indian house maid in their Manhattan apartment for four years. He has since claimed diplomatic immunity and it seems that no charges Read More »

By host on 6/27/2005 11:14 AM

Turkey is becoming a major destination for Slavic women who are trafficked into prostitution. The crime is aided by the booming Turkish economy and relatively lax visa requirements.\r\n"Think of many rivers flowing into one sea," said Allan Freedman, Read More »

By host on 6/24/2005 9:41 AM

There is growing evidence of Iraqi children being used as prostitutes in Syria. It is estimated that there are around 700,000 Iraqi refugees in Syria, many of whom are struggling in situations of poverty. Cases are emerging of families sending their Read More »

By host on 6/24/2005 9:02 AM

Jana, not her real name, is Indonesian. She trusted a man to take her to work in Tanjung Pinang, near Batam Island, also in Indonesia. When that job didn’t work out, she trusted another man who offered her a job, but this time she was sold into a bro Read More »

By host on 6/23/2005 9:42 AM

The Australian government passed a new law on Tuesday which toughened the penalties against human trafficking. Trafficking of adults into the country now carries a 12 year sentence and trafficking of children a 20 year sentence. The law is particular Read More »

By host on 6/23/2005 9:10 AM

A former garment factory owner in American Samoa has been convicted in Hawaii of enslaving, staving and beating his employees. He was ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution and sentenced to 40 years in jail. This is the worst case of human traff Read More »

By host on 6/22/2005 9:02 AM

More than 1000 women are being held as slaves in Australia today according to a leading human rights advocacy group. Jennifer Stanger, co-director of the Anti-Slavery Project based at the University of Technology, Sydney, said that an alarming number Read More »

By host on 6/22/2005 8:49 AM

Italian police have broken up an Italian/Bulgarian human trafficking ring which sold women to become sex slaves and men to work in slave labour. They were also active in selling babies. Police and anti-Mafia authorities in the southern Italian city o Read More »

By host on 6/21/2005 10:20 AM

It is being predicted that at least 40,000 prostitutes will be in Germany for the 2006 World Cup in June and July. In response, the Berlin authorities are planning safe-sex campaigns and the free distribution of condoms. There is even a plan to have Read More »

By host on 6/21/2005 9:28 AM

688,000 children are working as domestic servants in Indonesia, many of them in slave like conditions because the Indonesian government is unwilling to enforce legislation it has passed to protect them, according to a Human Rights Watch report publis Read More »

By host on 6/20/2005 9:56 AM

According to the US State Department, 70,000 Brazilians are involved in prostitution abroad, often in the European Union. Many of them have been trafficked. This makes Brazil South America’s biggest exporter of sex slaves, a fact that the Brazilian g Read More »

By host on 6/20/2005 9:23 AM

Ambassador John Miller, the Director of the US State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, commented last week that there were reports that members of the Office of Public Prosecutor of Armenia and Armenian frontier guards Read More »

By host on 6/17/2005 10:04 AM

The number of women from south-east Asia, trafficked into Taiwan as “brides” but then forced into prostitution has soared in the past two years, according to Wang Mei-chuan, foreign affairs section chief at the Chiayi County Police Department. Her re Read More »

By host on 6/17/2005 9:35 AM

A report by the UK’s Metropolitan police force has suggested that children are being trafficked from Africa for the purpose of ritualistic sacrifice and abuse. The most notable case to come to light so far is that of a child’s torso found in the rive Read More »

By host on 6/16/2005 9:29 AM

The Japanese parliament has approved legislation which will amend the penal code and immigration law in order to penalise human traffickers and also grant special residency status to victims even if they have overstayed their visas. This permission t Read More »

By host on 6/16/2005 9:03 AM

Britain’s home secretary Charles Clarke has said that he expects the G8 to agree to the creation of an international child sexual exploitation database to combat the explosion of child pornography on the internet. One of the reasons that children aro Read More »

By host on 6/15/2005 8:38 PM

A Bangladeshi man has been sentenced in absentia to thirty years in jail for trafficking an eight year old boy to be a camel jockey in the United Arab Emirates. Reaz Uddin, 41, had promised the boy’s family that he would get him a job in a shop in th Read More »

By host on 6/15/2005 7:43 PM

A recent report by the Japan Network against Trafficking in Persons and academics from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo suggests that the methods used to traffic women into exploitation in Japan are getting more sophisticated in response to the increas Read More »

By host on 6/14/2005 9:15 AM

Despite the good work of many NGOs, Cambodia remains a place where paedophiles take holidays to find children to have sex with. A recent report by the BBC’s programme “From our own correspondent.” examines the work of an undercover investigator tryin Read More »