By host on 2/27/2006 4:04 PM

The UK Newspaper The Mirror has published an account by two young Lithuanian women of how they were trafficked into the UK. They Read More »

By host on 2/24/2006 11:09 AM

Six men have been arrested in Maputu, Mozambique for allegedly trying to tra Read More »

By host on 2/23/2006 11:28 AM

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a free phone number for people living in the city of Read More »

By host on 2/22/2006 10:41 AM

Police in the UK have called for the travel industry to play an active part in thei Read More »

By host on 2/21/2006 11:00 AM

Scottish police forces are preparing to launch an operation to combat the growing number of human trafficking cases in the country. The operation is in response to hundreds of incidents Read More »

By host on 2/20/2006 10:54 AM

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By host on 2/16/2006 10:43 AM

Kyrgyz security forces have removed more than 60 women from a plane due to fly from the city of Osh to the United Arab Emirates. The Kyrgyz authorities claim that they have evidence that the women were being trafficked into forced prostitution in Dub Read More »

By host on 2/15/2006 10:34 AM

The government of Cote D’Ivoire has tried to deny the existence of trafficking of children into forced labour within its cocoa industry. NGOs have long claimed that thousands of children are trafficked, abused, enslaved and work in dangerous conditio Read More »

By host on 2/14/2006 5:35 PM

In the US, the FBI has arrested a man on suspicion of trafficking two Mexican women aged 14 and 24 and selling them into forced prostitution in Fort Myers. They were told that they would have to work as prostitutes in order to pay off a debt of $2,70 Read More »

By host on 2/13/2006 11:01 AM

The National Service for Combating Organised Crime in Bulgaria has discovered 13 cases of pregnant women being trafficked into Greece and their babies sold for adoption. The women were all promised money or were blackmailed into going. Most of the w Read More »

By host on 2/10/2006 9:20 AM

The Japanese National Police Agency reported yesterday that in 2005 they made arrests in 81 cases of the trafficking of foreign women. This is an increase from 25 the previous year. In all 117 women, of whom 44 were from Indonesia, were released fro Read More »

By host on 2/8/2006 4:46 PM

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has launched an anti-trafficking project in India, with the co-operation of the Indian government and $2 million of funding from the US government. The project will aim at raising awareness about human trafficking amo Read More »

By host on 2/7/2006 11:09 AM

The trafficking of people into forced prostitution is a real problem in Wales, according to police and health workers. Since the conviction of Gjergj Mungiovi-Cuka and Akil Likcani for sex trafficking in the Cardiff area last year, police have been i Read More »

By host on 2/6/2006 10:42 AM

Schools in Estonia are set to receive an education manual raising awareness of the growing human trafficking problem in the country. The manual, which has been prepared by the International Organisation for Migration, will examine the nature of human Read More »

By host on 2/3/2006 3:08 PM

Albanian born Ilir Markvukaj, 30, was sentenced to six years in jail by a court in Manchester, England for buying a Lithuanian girl “like a piece of meat” and forcing her into prostitution. The teenage girl was warned by other prostitutes that she wo Read More »

By host on 2/2/2006 11:08 AM

The International Organisation for Migration in Zimbabwe, in co-operation with the Zimbabwean government is launching a campaign called “Safe Journey”. It is designed to highlight to people the dangers of migrating without documents, dangers which in

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By host on 2/1/2006 4:06 PM

A report by American Samoa's Office of Territorial and International Criminal Intelligence and Drug Enforcement has higlighted the problem of human trafficking in the territory, an activity which profits organised crime which is also involved in the Read More »

By host on 1/31/2006 12:16 PM

The International Organisation for Migration is planning a new awareness raising campaign in Turkey to help combat human trafficking. The campaign is inspired by the disturbing fact that one in three women trafficked to Turkey are mothers. The crimes Read More »

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 »