By host on 11/29/2005 4:18 PM

Pressure is mounting for the government of the United Kingdom to sign the Council of Europe convention against human trafficking. The convention, which was concluded in May, has been signed by 23 countries so far. The convention allows a reflection p Read More »

By host on 11/28/2005 10:45 AM

The Nigerian National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other Related offences (NAPTIP) has announced that between July and November this year it has managed to rescue 143 victims of human trafficking. Victims were rescued at airports, Read More »

By host on 11/25/2005 10:26 AM

Sixteen people have been arrested in Sweden on charges of trafficking two Slovakian women and allegedly selling them into forced prostitution. The accused are from Sweden, Slovakia, Serbia-Montenegro, Syria and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the group includ Read More »

By host on 11/24/2005 10:19 AM

Chinese police have arrested 27 people, mostly charity workers, who are accused of buying and selling babies through state run orphanages. Beijing News reported that the head of Hengyang county orphanage and six other members of staff, as well as 20 Read More »

By host on 11/23/2005 2:32 PM

The ground breaking Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings was signed by an additional 7 countries last week. Ukraine, Macedonia, Netherlands, Greece, Germany, Belgium and Andorra signed making the number of signat Read More »

By host on 11/22/2005 2:08 PM

Marine Poghosyan, a young Armenian woman was convicted this year of trafficking young Armenian women to Dubai to work as prostitutes. As this was her first offence and she has a young daughter she was only given a sentence of 1 year 6 months. Light s Read More »

By host on 11/21/2005 11:20 AM

Health authorities in Ireland have expressed fears that most of the 250 children who have disappeared from care in the last four years have been trafficked and are being sexually exploited. The chief executive of the HSE (East Coast Area), has also c

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By host on 11/18/2005 11:58 AM

A Honduran woman, herself a victim of trafficking, has pleaded guilty at a Newark, New Jersey (USA) court, to being the “enforcer” for a trafficking ring which brought girls as young as 14 to the US and forced them to work in bars. They had to make a Read More »

By host on 11/17/2005 11:50 AM

The UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Juan Miguel Petit has called for a co-ordinated child protection policy in Greece, a country where many children are tra Read More »

By host on 11/16/2005 10:43 AM

An Albanian student living in the UK has denied charges of being involved in a trafficking gang and of buying a woman for £5000 and forcing her into prostitution. 19 year old Gjergj Mungiovi-Cuka admitted that he signed the rent agreement for the fla Read More »

By host on 11/15/2005 11:56 AM

Irish MEP Simon Coveney held a launch at the European Parliament for “Business Travellers against Human Trafficking”. The meeting was also sup Read More »

By host on 11/15/2005 10:10 AM

Representatives of the International Organisation for Migration have warned the Pakistani government that earthquake survivors will be vulnerable to human traffickers. In a meeting with Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah, the IOM said that due to ext Read More »

By host on 11/14/2005 10:37 AM

The United Arab Emirates has once again denied the existence of human trafficking in its territory despite reports from the International Organisation of Migration, the US State Department and many NGOs. The Labour and Social Affairs magazine issued

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By host on 11/11/2005 3:33 PM

Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography for the UN Commission on Human Rights, Juan Miguel Petit has called for Albania to introduce a national child protection system in the face of large numbers of child Read More »

By host on 11/10/2005 11:44 AM

The city of Glasgow in Scotland has been given special dispensation by the UK Home Office to allow women who may have been trafficked into forced prostitution a 30 days “reflection period” before they decide to apply for asylum, agree to prosecute th

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By host on 11/9/2005 3:22 PM

Police in Denmark have arrested 14 people in connection with human trafficking into forced prostitution. Details are still emerging, but it seems that three people have been arrested on human trafficking charges and a further six on charges of procur Read More »

By host on 11/8/2005 8:49 PM

3 Vietnamese woman aged between 23 and 28 have been rescued in Russia after a co-ordinated investigation by police from both nations. The women, from the northern province of Thai Binh, were returned home on November 7th. It is unknown if they wante Read More »

By host on 11/7/2005 9:30 PM

Jelana Pesic, the chairperson of the Red Cross in Serbia claimed at a conference on human trafficking in South East Europe that her region was one of the most badly 'infected' with human trafficking in the world. Ms. Pesic, said that worldwide betwee Read More »

By host on 11/3/2005 5:41 PM

NGO Terre des Hommes has called for stricter laws against human trafficking in Switzerland. It is estimated that between 1,500 and 3,000 people are trafficked into Switzerland each year, and this figure only covers those trafficked into sexual exploi Read More »

By host on 11/2/2005 10:35 AM

Gavril Dulghieru and his wife Tamara have been convicted by a London court of illegally bringing women into the UK and then forcing them into prostitution. One young Moldovan woman testified that she had been promised a job as a dancer in London and Read More »