By host on 9/29/2007 12:01 AM

Bishop Gerald R. Barnes, chairman of the U.S. Bishop’s Committee on Migration, said that Catholic bishops "pledge to use the resources of the church to help end this affliction." Barnes stated such actio Read More »

By host on 9/26/2007 11:48 PM

Hungarian officials announced Monday that the government will begin to allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's permit in an effort to bring them into the legal economy. The licenses will allow sex workers, who can already work legally so lo Read More »

By host on 9/24/2007 5:06 PM

Youngsters are being shipped across the world and held captive in towns and suburbs up and down the country. By Nina Lakhani

\r\nHundreds of young children illegally traffi Read More »

By host on 9/5/2007 7:22 PM

BEIJING (Reuters) - China, rocked by a brick kiln child slavery scandal, plans to set up a national panel to stop human trafficking, aimed at protecting women and ch

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By host on 9/4/2007 9:20 AM

The UN is urging countries in southern Africa to pass legislation against human trafficking, a crime which is reaching frightening proportions in the region. "None of the countries in southern Africa has specific anti-human trafficking legislation in Read More »

By host on 8/31/2007 10:04 AM

Immigration police in the Philippines have promised to step-up the fight against human trafficking after a UN report apparently estimated that one in four victims of cross border trafficking are from that country. An International Justice Mission rep Read More »

By host on 8/28/2007 3:11 AM

A major police operation to tackle the trafficking of women in Britain has discovered that some victims are being "sold" at auctions in pubs before being forced to work in brothels.\r\n\r\nIn the largest operation of its kind, police in Cambridgeshir Read More »

By host on 8/22/2007 7:13 PM

The FBI has announced the sentencing of Michail Aronov, age 34, to 7 ½ years in prison as will as requiring him to pay in excess of $1 million in restitution. The Read More »

By host on 8/21/2007 11:20 PM

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Elizabeth and James Jackson, of Culver City, Calif., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Los Angeles to felony charges related to forced labor a Read More »

By host on 8/17/2007 12:01 AM

A JUDGE showed mercy on two young Vietnamese men who admitted running a drugs factory - because he was convinced they were victims of "modern slavery".\r\n\r\nJudge Christopher Mitchell delayed sentencing Long Tran, 20, and a 16-year-old youth, who a Read More »

By host on 8/10/2007 10:27 AM

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted nine people on charges of human trafficking, including six members of the same family. It is alleged that they lured young Guatemalan girls, one of whom was only 13 years old, with promises of work in Read More »

By host on 8/8/2007 4:51 PM

Police in the English county of Durham are using iPods to help in the fight against human trafficking. The police are aware that it can take several hours to locate translators who speak the appropriate language for a victim who often speaks no Engli Read More »

By host on 8/4/2007 2:20 AM

John Donnelly writes in the August 1, 2007 edition of the Boston Globe (boston.com)\r\n\r\n\r\nWASHINGTON -- A rare glimpse into the harrowing lives of girls and women forced into India's sex trade found th Read More »

By host on 8/1/2007 10:48 AM

The US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has heard allegations that construction workers were trafficked to work on building the new US Embassy in Iraq. Testimony such as that from Rory Mayberry seem to confirm an earlier report by the Read More »

By host on 7/31/2007 3:54 PM

A Taiwanese man and five Vietnamese people have been convicted of human trafficking by a court in Ho Chi Min City and sentenced to up to 12 years in prison. They had trafficked 126 Vietnamese women to Malaysia between April 2005 and March 2006. The w Read More »

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 »