By host on 7/28/2006 9:35 AM

A draft law in Bulgaria is aiming to tackle the problem of women selling their new born babies to traffickers. The offence could now receive a sentence of bet Read More »

By host on 7/27/2006 10:16 AM

Two women have been arrested in Azerbaijan on suspicion of trafficking women to Dubai and Read More »

By host on 7/26/2006 9:30 AM

The Vietnamese government has acted against the growing number of “forged marriages” which are being used as means to traffic women into sexual exploitation. Thousands of Vietnamese women are married to foreign

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By host on 7/24/2006 9:48 AM

Three women have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking at the Burma/China border. The women, who were in the company of other women traders, were arrested at the border gate at Muse, heading into Read More »

By host on 7/21/2006 1:24 PM

The US senate has approved tough new laws against child sex offenders, including new measures against people who traffic children into sexual exploitation. Ch Read More »

By host on 7/20/2006 4:57 PM

A woman from Boston, USA, has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy, transporting minors across stat Read More »

By host on 7/19/2006 1:31 PM

Italian police have freed 113 Polish workers from what have been described as “labour camps” in the southern region of Puglia. Italian prosecutor Piero Foggi Read More »

By host on 7/18/2006 7:39 AM

Thousands of Korean women are being lured by internet adverts and then trafficked to the US and other countries, and sexually exploited. Timothy C. Lim, associate professor from California State University’s Department of Political Science, reported Read More »

By host on 7/17/2006 10:32 AM

In another crack down on human trafficking as part of Bulgaria’s preparations to become part of the European Union, Bulgarian police have smashed a human traf Read More »

By host on 7/13/2006 12:49 PM

A women’s campaign group “Fiz” has complained at the light sentences given to a gang of human traffickers, this week in Switzerland< Read More »

By host on 7/12/2006 1:02 PM

Police in the UK have condemned the trafficking, imprisonment, rape and beating of a Kenyan teenager as one of the worst cases o Read More »

By host on 7/11/2006 12:24 PM

Irish MEP Simon Coveney, who is also the host for Business Travellers against Human Trafficking in the European Parliament, has told a sub-committee of the EU Parliament that wome Read More »

By host on 7/10/2006 1:13 PM

The United Arab Emirates has drafted a new law giving the penalty of life imprisonment for human trafficking. Read More »

By host on 7/8/2006 11:37 PM

Ministers from 26 African states, including the 15 countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the 11 countries of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) signed an agreement to co-operate i Read More »

By host on 7/6/2006 3:31 PM

Initial reports are showing that campaigns against human trafficking have been successful with no overall rise either in the use of prostitutes, or the trafficking of women and children into Germany during the World Cup. Before the World Cup there ha Read More »

By host on 7/5/2006 4:39 PM

In the UK, the chairman of the parliamentary committee on Northern Ireland, Sir Patrick Cormack, has claimed that paramilitary groups are involved in human trafficking in the province. The comments were made after the publishing of the Northern Irela Read More »

By host on 6/30/2006 2:12 PM

Members of the Scottish parliament have been hearing testimony by Amnesty International on the trauma suffered by women who have been trafficked into sexual exploitation, a trauma so severe that Amnesty found 4 Read More »

By host on 6/29/2006 9:25 AM

There have been more reports of the trafficking of women and children into forced prostitution and forced labour in South Africa. Babalwa Makawula, a co-found Read More »

By host on 6/27/2006 4:17 PM

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has acknowledged that corruption in the judiciary and government has aided human trafficking. Trafficking, both within the country and across borders has become endemic since the fall of communism in the early 199 Read More »

By host on 6/26/2006 11:47 AM

Three young Filipinas have claimed that they were trafficked to Dubai and sexually exploited. They have asked for the assistance of the Philippines Consulate and filed cases against their former employe

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