By host on 9/29/2005 10:20 AM

The US government will be funding an anti-trafficking campaign in the north of Vietnam. The project will be working with the Women’s Union in the Thanh Hoa region to try to prevent the large scale trafficking of women and children which is currently Read More »

By host on 9/28/2005 9:20 AM

Human trafficking is growing in Kosovo and, according to USAID Director in Kosovo, Ken Yamashita, the majority of victims are now women from Kosovo itself, reflecting the poverty and lack of options given to women in the country. A recent report by Read More »

By host on 9/27/2005 9:44 AM

A 15 year old girl from Nagpur, India has been rescued from forced prostitution in the Delhi. Her uncle and aunt had met a man called Pappu Singh, a restaurant worker in the capital who said he wanted to marry the girl. He eventually paid the family Read More »

By host on 9/26/2005 9:29 AM

Naomi Campbell has agreed to take part in a UN awareness campaign in Colombia to try to reduce the numbers of women and children being trafficked into sexual exploitation, saying she wanted to help in "providing a safe environment for models and prev Read More »

By host on 9/23/2005 10:58 AM

There is a thriving trade in Haitian children in the neighbouring country of the Dominican Republic. Children can be bought for just over £50 and are then forced to work as domestic servants, in agricultural work or in prostitution. There are few acc Read More »

By host on 9/22/2005 10:25 PM

The 2005 Trafficking in Persons report by the US State Department, included some of America’s closest allies in the Middle East as having major human trafficking problems and not making significant efforts to fight the crime. Countries listed in this Read More »

By host on 9/21/2005 8:51 AM

Pakistani nationals who have recently been released from slavery in Sudan and returned to Pakistan are claiming that they were trafficked into slave labour by a Pakistani government minister. 21 freed slaves are claiming that Minister for Industries Read More »

By host on 9/20/2005 10:12 PM

A Cambodian hotel owner has been charged this week with conspiracy in human trafficking. Te Pao Ly, the 34-year-old owner of the Hotel Chhai Hour II was arrested in the southwestern province of Koh Kong on Saturday after police brought him back from Read More »

By host on 9/19/2005 9:43 AM

A report on trafficking in South Eastern Europe by the International Organisation for Migration has claimed that human trafficking in Europe has reached alarming proportions. The Second Annual Report on Victims of Trafficking in South Eastern Europe Read More »

By host on 9/16/2005 9:40 AM

Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Sigma Huda has heavily criticised Lebanon’s criminal code as liable to persecute victims while letting those who exploit the women go unpunished. It is estimated that more than one third of Leb Read More »

By host on 9/15/2005 5:01 PM

Some companies in Canada, US, UK, Germany and Switzerland are beginning to watch the activities of employees who travel very frequently to Asia, if they suspect them of engaging in child sex tourism. Private investigator P Kalastree, 58, is the manag Read More »

By host on 9/14/2005 9:29 AM

Police in the Indian state of Assam revealed yesterday that more than 500 women and children a year were trafficked out of the state into prostitution. They also claimed that the problem may actually get worse in the coming years. \r\nInspector-gener Read More »

By host on 9/13/2005 9:39 AM

The number of women trafficked in Nepal this year has risen to 8,000 compared with around 6,600 last year, according to government official Maiti Nepal Prakash Gurung. The usual causes of poverty and gender discrimination are being compounded by the Read More »

By host on 9/12/2005 9:40 AM

When Katrina graduated from the local university in Smolensk, she found the financial pressures on her were hard to come with, so when she was offered a job in Bangkok as a waitress, she gladly accepted. She was one of a group of 50 women from Russia Read More »

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

A Lithuanian man admitted this week to trafficking at least 9 women from the Czech Republic, Russia and Ukraine. Michael Aronov, 33, pleaded guilty to forcing the women to work as exotic dancers in Cheetah’s strip club in Detroit for 12 hours a day a Read More »

By host on 9/8/2005 1:37 PM

In the past 18 months the Russian interior ministry has opened 14 cases of human trafficking and six cases of slave labour. They have uncovered a pattern by which organised criminal gangs recruit groups of women, offering to provide them with travel Read More »

By host on 9/7/2005 9:06 AM

The national press in Panama is accusing the rector of Panama University, Gustavo Garcia Paredes, of being involved in sex trafficking. Previously Mr Paredes had been accused of selling diplomas, but it is alleged that the government of Panama had pr

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By host on 9/6/2005 3:56 PM

Israel’s prime minister Ariel Sharon stated last month that human trafficking was a "despicable phenomenon [that] completely contradicts Jewish tradition and the values of dignity.", yet despite this, Israel still has a major problem with sex traffic Read More »

By host on 9/5/2005 10:26 AM

Hospitals could be the ideal place to identify victims of human trafficking, with many women, children and men being temporarily admitted to hospital by their traffickers and then taken back to be exploited in prostitution or forced labour. A recent

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By host on 9/2/2005 10:31 AM

Yemen is experiencing an increase in tourism, but also an increase in sex tourism. In particular there is a growing phenomenon of “tourism marriages” where young women and girls aged mainly between 14 and 24 years old are forced or deceived into a ma Read More »