By host on 7/29/2005 12:02 PM

Philo L. Dibble, Acting Assistant Secretary of the US State Department, has called on the UN to do more in the fight to end sexual abuse by UN peace keepers. In his testimony this week to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he acknowledged that si Read More »

By host on 7/29/2005 11:11 AM

Togo is at last planning to pass legislation which will make child trafficking illegal. Every year hundreds of children are trafficked from this West African country, mainly to Nigeria, and Gabon. Togo is one of the least developed countries in the w Read More »

By host on 7/28/2005 9:48 AM

Not only are at least 2000 women being trafficked out of Lithuania every year, but those who do find their way home find they have a problem with social exclusion. In a survey reported in the Baltic Times today, only 50% of those asked said that they Read More »

By host on 7/27/2005 2:24 PM

A Kenyan woman was allegedly held a virtual prisoner and forced to work 15 hour days by a Seattle (USA) doctor and his wife, according to papers filed with the FBI recently. The woman from Kenya worked for the couple in Africa and was offered a job w Read More »

By host on 7/27/2005 1:42 PM

The Yugoslavian daily newspaper Danas is reporting an investigation into a human trafficking ring whose operations spanned Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and Croatia. The newspaper claims that the trafficking is being organised by an unnamed former UNPROFOR Read More »

By host on 7/26/2005 11:52 AM

MPs in Tanzania have asked the government to act in the light of the rampant sexual exploitation of young boys and girls at Uwanja wa Fisi in Dar es Salaam.\r\n "This is very serious. The boys and girls are leading a desperate and shameful life. We a Read More »

By host on 7/26/2005 10:06 AM

Bosnian NGOs are reporting a rise in the number of Bosnian women who are being trafficked. Since the war in the former Yugoslavian republic, thousands of women have been trafficked from countries such as Moldova and Ukraine to be used as prostitutes Read More »

By host on 7/25/2005 9:18 AM

The Middle Eastern state of Qatar was sited in the recent US State department report on human trafficking as one of the worst offenders with little being done to fight against traffickers. Children are still being trafficked to be used as camel jocke Read More »

By host on 7/22/2005 10:37 AM

Ki Young-cha escaped to China from North Korea in 1997 with her two daughters and son. Human traffickers sold them for domestic labour. Ki was arrested by Chinese police and sent back to North Korea, while her two daughters were sold to Chinese men f Read More »

By host on 7/22/2005 10:14 AM

Elsa Consuelo Isuala Meza, 44, is accused of running a safe house in Houston, Texas (USA) which was used as a hub for young Honduran girls as young as 14 who were trafficked into the US for forced prostitution. The arrest warrant has been issued for Read More »

By host on 7/21/2005 7:34 PM

Since accession to the EU the number of women being trafficked from Lithuania has increased dramatically. Women are mainly sold into the UK, with around 15 women being sold there every month. Despite this dangerous trend, Gintaras Furmanavicius, head Read More »

By host on 7/20/2005 10:31 AM

Young Vietnamese girls are being sold into slavery. Very often the girls are bought by men from countries such as Taiwan or Korea who say they want to marry them. Families from impoverished rural districts are happy to sell their daughters into fore Read More »

By host on 7/20/2005 10:00 AM

Japanese police have linked a man and woman already held for human trafficking with another case of trafficking a 17 year old Thai girl. Phinkaew Krissanee, 24, a Thai woman working as a nightclub hostess, is suspected of selling the girl to the Thai Read More »

By host on 7/19/2005 9:47 AM

Work for Judy, like many thousands of other maids in Kuwait began at 5am and didn’t finish until midnight.\r\n"I washed clothes, cleaned the floors, scrubbed toilets and sinks and bathrooms. And just kept doing that over and over again," she says. "A Read More »

By host on 7/19/2005 9:22 AM

The Armenian online magazine Hetq online has been reporting on Armenian women who have been trafficked to Dubai and forced into prostitution. Some of the women go voluntarily to work in the sex trade, but are later caught in slave like conditions and Read More »

By host on 7/18/2005 10:20 AM

Lusa was sold from her native Uzbekistan at the age of 17. The abduction was arranged by her aunt who wanted the use of the flat Lusa was occupying at the time. When she reached Dubai she was sold into prostitution and used until her “owners” conside Read More »

By host on 7/18/2005 9:38 AM

Trafficking of women and children is a problem which is getting worse in West Bengal, according to by the Indian National Human Rights Commission, UNIFEM and the Indian Institute of Social Sciences (ISS). Their recent research also indicates that 22. Read More »

By host on 7/15/2005 3:31 PM

Three people from Mali in Western Africa are suing Nestle SA, Archer Daniels Midland Co., and Cargill Inc., alleging that they used children trafficked into forced labour in their cocoa bean plantations in the Ivory Coast. The law suit was filed at t Read More »

By host on 7/15/2005 2:32 PM

There is growing evidence of children being sold into forced prostitution in the Western Cape area of South Africa. Research by the human rights group Molo Songololo claims that since January 2004, 453 children have gone missing and there are fears t Read More »

By host on 7/14/2005 2:20 PM

The United Nations special representative on human trafficking, Sigma Huda, has said that Japan needs to address cultural issues which are related to human trafficking. In what will be seen as a controversial speech, Ms Huda, from the UN Commission o Read More »