By host on 7/27/2007 10:07 AM

In Ukraine, three mobile phone companies, KyivStar, UMC and life:), have teamed up with the International Organisation for Migration to provide a free hotline service for victims and potential victims of human trafficking. By dialing 527 in Ukraine, Read More »

By host on 7/25/2007 9:50 AM

The Indian NGO ‘Sramjeevi Mahila Samithi’ has filed a petition in a Delhi court, claiming that 290 women and children have been trafficked for domestic service in the south of the capital by placement agencies. They also claim that several of the chi Read More »

By host on 7/24/2007 10:23 AM

Jamaican Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer, has promised that the government will soon provide shelters for victims of human trafficking on the island, as Jamaica continues to try to improve its response to the problem of h Read More »

By host on 7/21/2007 7:45 AM

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BEIJING (AP) -- A foreman from a kiln in north China where workers were beaten and forced to work 18-hour days was sentenced Tuesday to life in jail and another man was sentenced to death for the beating Read More »

By host on 7/16/2007 2:55 PM

A court in Bulgaria has upheld a european arrest warrant issued by a judge in Belgium for Romanian citizen Bankutsa Dechebal who is accused of human trafficking and assisting in the laundering of money made by trafficking rings. Dechebel has now agre Read More »

By host on 7/11/2007 2:46 AM

The Department Against Trafficking in People and Prosecution of Organised Crime of the Attica police on Monday said it had succeeded in dismantling one of the largest and best organised rings in the people-trafficking and sex trade after a two-month Read More »

By host on 7/9/2007 11:28 PM

Every child entering the UK should have their biometrics taken in an attempt to stop the trafficking of children for sex, domestic slavery, street crime and drug smuggling.\r\n\r\nThe plan to track children after they enter the UK comes in a Home Off Read More »

By host on 7/6/2007 2:53 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Three men were being held in Las Vegas on slavery charges, accused of detaining members of a Chinese acrobat team against their will.\r\n\r\nThe arrests of You Zhi Li, 38, Yang Shen, 21, and Jun Hu, 43, this week came after one woman Read More »

By host on 7/5/2007 2:15 PM

Warsaw - Nine Poles and one Ukrainian are facing criminal charges after Polish border guards busted a sex slave gang attempting to sell Polish women to brothels in Germany and Switzerland, Read More »

By host on 7/4/2007 5:38 PM

Norway will be able to jail clients of prostitutes for up to six months under proposed legislation aimed at stamping out the human trade, officials said on Wednesday.\r\n\r\n"Norway will not be a free zone for pimps and traffickers of human beings," Read More »

By host on 7/3/2007 3:01 PM

The service for combating human trafficking in the French town of Reims and Bulgarian border police busted an organised criminal group involved in trafficking in women.\r\n\r\nFrench investigators detained four men aged 30 to 37 from the Bulgarian to Read More »

By host on 7/3/2007 11:07 AM

The recent discovery of hundreds of slave laborers working in feudal conditions in brick kilns prompted a national outcry in China -- and an unusually forceful reaction from the central government. The Communist Party immediately dispatched tens of t Read More »

By host on 6/27/2007 7:54 PM

DETROIT - Aleksandr Maksimenko, age 27, was sentenced today to serve 168 months (14 years) in prison and pay more than $1.5 million in restitution for his role as one of t Read More »

By host on 6/26/2007 4:37 PM

Hong Kong and Australian police working in a joint operation have arrested a Hong Kong couple in Melbourne, Australia, who were allegedly involved in trafficking young women from Hong Kong through promises and threats and forcing them into prostituti Read More »

By host on 6/25/2007 3:51 PM

There is a growing problem with human trafficking in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Traffickers have taken thousands of girls to Mumbai and Delhi under the pretence of giving them work as housemaids, but in reality they are being sold into sexual Read More »

By host on 6/15/2007 2:30 AM

BEIJING, June 8 (UPI) -- Police in China raided a brickwork factory to rescue 31 workers who were being held as virtual slaves by the company.Authorities say some of the workers were so traumatized by the experience that they Read More »

By host on 6/4/2007 10:16 AM

In San Antonio, USA, Isabel Consuelo Ochoa, 58, and her daughters Consuelo Pilar Ochoa, 31, and Maria de Jesus Ochoa, 29, are on trial for allegedly trafficking minors from Mexico into sexual exploitation. One of the victim’s statements said, "The jo Read More »

By host on 6/1/2007 11:36 AM

The BBC has reported growing fears that Northern Ireland is being used as a transit country for victims of human trafficking being forced into prostitution in the Republic of Ireland and in the UK. Not only that, but Northern Ireland could also be a Read More »

By host on 5/29/2007 3:08 PM

Bahraini Development Minister Dr Fatima Al Balooshi has denied that the country has a problem with human trafficking. The minister claimed that the Bahraini government had taken all legal measures against human trafficking and had set up a social pro Read More »

By host on 5/24/2007 4:27 PM

New York State is set to make human trafficking a felony punishable by up to 25 years in jail. There are also plans to provide additional support for victims who have been rescued. With the US State Department estimating that up to 20,000 people are Read More »