By host on 8/28/2008 4:20 PM

DENVER - Advocates for people forced into prostitution are preparing to respond to an expected surge in human trafficking during the Democratic National Convention.\r\n\r\nOn Saturday, volunteers fanned o Read More »

By host on 8/28/2008 1:27 PM

Kathmandu, August 27: The United Nations has stressed on the need for strengthening laws in South Asia to protect child trafficking. Launching a report on Preventing and Responding to Child Trafficking in South Read More »

By host on 7/3/2008 1:08 PM

VIENNA, Austria: Natural disasters such as the cyclone in Myanmar can put children at risk for abuse and exploitation, a human trafficking expert said Monday.\r\n\r\nEva Biaudet, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said she ha Read More »

By host on 7/3/2008 1:08 PM

Thursday, 03 July , 2008, 08:20 Last Updated: Thursday, 03 July , 2008, 08:25 London: British police have arrested over 500 people in a nationwide crackdown on human trafficking in a six-month operation targeted at the sex trade in women and childr Read More »

By host on 5/15/2008 2:32 PM

35-year-old Todd Barkau was indicted last Wednesday in Missouri, charged in connection with training and trafficking the girl he dubbed "Mistress Alisha" to be a dominatrix for 5 years, starting when she was 12..\r\nShe's the daughter of the woman li Read More »

By host on 5/15/2008 1:17 PM

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA - Jose Navarrete, pled guilty to human slavery, Wednesday. The Mexican citizen was accused of harboring aliens, faking an alien registration receipt, a social security card and re-entering the country after he was deported.

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By host on 5/7/2008 9:23 AM

Chinese woman, Hongmei Madole, 32, has pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking Chinese women to Kansas, USA and exploiting them as prostitutes in three massage parlours. Although she could face up to 20 years in jail, the preliminary estimates in h

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By host on 5/6/2008 9:40 AM

The UK home office has launched a poster campaign with the stark warning "Walk in a punter, walk out a rapist." The posters will be piloted in men's toilets in Westminster and Nottingham. This is latest attempt by the UK government to tackle demand f Read More »

By host on 3/7/2008 11:34 AM

A total of 34 people, mostly from Vietnam, went on trial in southern Sweden on Tuesday accused of trafficking people from Vietnam to Sweden, judicial sources said.\r\nThe suspects are accused of "having set up a human trafficking ring, fraud ... and Read More »

By host on 3/7/2008 11:32 AM

A Fort Lauderdale federal jury on Tuesday convicted a south Florida mother and daughter on slavery charges for keeping a teenage girl from Haiti in servitude for six years.\r\nAfter deliberating 51/2 hours, the jury of six men and six women convicted Read More »

By host on 2/14/2008 11:35 AM

Four men between age 20 and 34 have been arrested by the dutch police after two bulgarian women pressed charges for forcing then into prostitution. They were arrested in different locations in Holland.

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By host on 2/13/2008 11:06 AM

More than 1200 organisations from all over the world are gathered in Vienna to discuss the "human trafficking" issue.\r\nThe conference will take 3 days. In this time NGO's goverments and even victims of trafficking will speak. Stop The Traffik has p Read More »

By host on 2/7/2008 9:50 AM

A man, born in Curaçao, is beinig held on charges of forced prostitution of several women in the Netherlands. The man will be transferred to the Netherlands as soon as possible. (source, www.telegraaf.nl, article now deleted)

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By host on 1/4/2008 3:47 PM

In the UK, the opposition Conservative party called for the government to do more to fight human trafficking. Despite co-ordinated police efforts against this crime, the actual number of convictions of traffickers under the sexual Offences Act 2003 d Read More »

By host on 1/4/2008 12:02 PM

Nine trafficked children were returned to their parents in central China on Thursday in a rare success story in a nation where population controls have led to rampant child-trafficking, state media reported on Thursday.\r\n\r\nPolice detained 10 suspects after the abduction of nine children in Henan province early last month.\r\n\r\nThe gang was led by Ye Zengxi, his son, daughter-in-law, and his brother.

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By host on 12/14/2007 8:12 PM

By HENRY SANDERSON The Associated Press BEIJING -- Cross-border human trafficking for forced labor and prostitution is a growing problem along

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By host on 12/13/2007 1:54 AM

MUMBAI: The 30-year-old son of a restaurant owner here has been arrested b Read More »

By host on 12/5/2007 7:50 PM

SACRAMENTO -- California is a top destination for human traffickers who coerce people into the sex trade or hard labor through force or fraud, according to an 18-month government study released Tuesday.The report by a 19-member task force of the Cali Read More »

By host on 12/1/2007 1:05 AM

There are hundreds of homes on Long Island where immigrants, especially women, are held in conditions that approach slavery, Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said Friday at

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By host on 11/29/2007 11:23 PM

At a Stop the Traffik Event, police cited how they have dramatically changed how they tackle trafficking investigations in the last year.\r\n \r\n"It is a hidden crime, which makes investigation difficult, " Det. Insp Bodell said.\r\n \r\n"Historical Read More »