By host on 1/30/2006 5:11 PM

Indian ambassador Balkrishna Shetty has promised to investigate claims that Indian women and children are being trafficked to Bahrain and forced into prostitution and pornography. The claim which was made in a recent Indian Institute of Social Scienc Read More »

By host on 1/27/2006 9:20 AM

Estonia has approved a major anti-trafficking action plan to be in operation between 2006 and 2009. Estonia's Minister of Justice Rein Lang commented at the launch of the national strategy that he feared that human trafficking might become the worst Read More »

By host on 1/25/2006 9:17 PM

A report by the European Parliament has expressed concern that there may be an increase in sex trafficking during the World Cup in Germany and urges all EU member states, “especially Germany, to take appropriate measures in the course of the World Cu Read More »

By host on 1/24/2006 6:00 PM

Twelve year old Bhavani (name changed) grew up in a poor farming community in the southern Indian state of Andrah Pradesh. Instead of going to school she helped her family in the fields, but there was never enough food to feed her parents and all the Read More »

By host on 1/23/2006 4:06 PM

Salvador Fernando Molina Garcia has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking. He is one of six Mexicans charged with trafficking young women across the border into the United States and forcing them into prostitution. He claims that his wife became a prosti Read More »

By host on 1/20/2006 10:56 AM

A telephone hotline to help fight human trafficking has been set up by the Interior Ministry in Azerbaijan. The line, (490 90 75), is designed not only as a place where people can report human trafficking and related crimes, but also receive legal ad Read More »

By host on 1/19/2006 10:43 AM

John Miller, director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons said yesterday that his office was investigating claims by the Chicago Tribune Newspaper that human trafficking is being used to recruit undocumented Read More »

By host on 1/18/2006 10:40 AM

State prosecution in Israel has filed an indictment against Leonid Turkin, 52, for sex trafficking. It is alleged that in 2004 Turkin formed a gang to traffic women from Ukraine to force them into prostitution in Israel. The case is base on the testi Read More »

By host on 1/17/2006 10:52 AM

A new report brought out by Sydney academic, Jennifer Burn of the University of Technology Sydney's Anti-Slavery Project, commissioned by 15 religious groups, has heavily criticised the support offered to trafficked women by the Australian authoritie Read More »

By host on 1/16/2006 12:54 PM

A recent report on human trafficking in India by the Delhi based Institute of Social Studies entitled 'Trafficking in Women and Children in India' identified a thriving sex tourism industry in the southern state of Kerala. In particular the report cl Read More »

By host on 1/13/2006 12:12 PM

Authorities in the Netherlands have launched a campaign asking the clients of prostitutes to contact the police if they suspect a prostitute has been trafficked. It is estimated that approximately 3,500 women are trafficked into sexual exploitation i Read More »

By host on 1/12/2006 10:42 AM

The defendant in a human trafficking case in Atlanta, USA, has been denied bond for fear that he might abuse and intimidate his victims. Jimmy Jones, otherwise known as Mike Spade is accused of recruiting young women from the Clark-Atlanta University Read More »

By host on 1/11/2006 2:43 PM

US president George W Bush has reauthorized a law against human trafficking. At a ceremony where he signed the bill which renews the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 he pledged to continue working with countries around the world to help end Read More »

By host on 1/10/2006 11:22 AM

A new study by the Delhi based Institute for Social Sciences has shown Delhi to be the top destination for women and children being trafficked, the majority of whom were brought to the city for sexual exploitation under the age of 16. The report also Read More »

By host on 1/9/2006 11:01 AM

Two people have been charged with sex trafficking in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a self governing country in political unity with the United States. It was at the request of the US government that the indictment against Zheng Mi Read More »

By host on 1/5/2006 11:53 PM

The UK has launched a three month national consultation on how to tackle the problem of human trafficking. The UK is primarily a destination country for women, children and men trafficked into forced labour, prostitution and begging. It is hard to kn Read More »

By host on 1/5/2006 1:55 AM

One year after the Tsunami struck Indonesia’s Aceh province the Centre for Child Protection and Study(PKPA) has reported that the trafficking of children is happening, particularly into Malaysia. The NGO gave the example of a 16 year old girl who was Read More »

By host on 1/3/2006 11:56 AM

Britain will announce a crack-down against sex traffickers this week. Over the past few years the number of women and children being trafficked into the UK for sexual exploitation has increased dramatically. Paul Goggins the UK Home Office minister w Read More »

By host on 1/2/2006 2:46 PM

A Scottish man has been arrested in Bangalore, India on suspicion of trying to traffic two boys into the UK. Police seized Douglas Rankin, 62, while he was attempting to board a plane with the two boys. All three of them were carrying false Mexican p Read More »

By host on 12/31/2005 12:41 AM

Despite recent crackdowns, there is still a large problem with child sex tourism and human trafficking in Mexico, particularly in the resorts of Acapulco and Cancun as well as border cities such as Ciudad Juarez. The numbers of child victims of comme Read More »