More than 700,000 women, children and men are trafficked across borders every year into forced labour and sex slavery. Thousands of these women and children are trafficked for travellers to use as prostitutes. You can use this site to find out what is going on and also how to help stop this terrible trade.
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Global news on human trafficking
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9/3/2008 11:25 AM
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. She’s the daughter of the woman living with Barkau at the time in suburban Kansas City. Authorities looking for him sent his picture to agencies including the local FBI...
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9/3/2008 11:18 AM
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 children. The police said 167 victims, including 12 children, had been rescued in the crackdown involving 55 police forces in England, Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Home Office said on Wednesday.
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9/3/2008 11:16 AM
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.
Eva Biaudet, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said she had no specific information about the situation of children in Myanmar, but noted that similar disasters, as well as conflicts, have put minors at risk of being taken advantage of and abused...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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12/13/2007 1:54 AM
MUMBAI: The 30-year-old son of a restaurant owner here has been arrested b
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