By host on 11/28/2008 10:47 AM

By March, James Pond hopes to open a high-security safe house in Portland with 16 to 20 beds for girls recently freed from sex trafficking.

It will be the first shelter of its kind in the country, and one that’s badly needed in Portland, where the city’s police find three to five cases each week of girls under the age of 18 who are victims of forced prostitution, according to estimates by Oregon’s Human Trafficking Task Force. Keith Bickford, the task force’s coordinator, adds that most of those girls are trafficked from within the United States.

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By host on 11/28/2008 10:44 AM

Members of the WI are set to check their local newspapers for sex adverts in a bid to clamp down on sex trafficking and forced prostitution.

The UK is a major destination for trafficked women and Minister for Women and Equality, Harriet Harman, is enlisting the help of the Women’s Institute to tackle the nationwide problem.

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By host on 11/27/2008 2:10 PM

Houston is beginning to realize that we are the American hub for the blight that is international human trafficking, a modern-day slavery; we must also realize that domestic human trafficking affects our city in even more egregious ways and in greater numbers.

 

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By host on 11/26/2008 1:32 PM

Assistant Head of the Belgrade Police Administration Nikola Popovac has unveiled a new initiative to fight human trafficking.

Titled “Capacity Building of Public Peace and Order Department for Tackling Human Trafficking” the project aims to enhance police capabilities to fight organized criminals who run the human trafficking networks by enhancing the detection, identification and help for victims of human trafficking.

 

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By host on 11/26/2008 1:29 PM

The government is keen on fighting human trafficking issues in the SAR and has implemented a victims protection program as well as a mechanism to provide psychological support.
In her opening speech at the Follow-up Conference on Trafficking in Persons and Exploitation of Labor, Secretary for Administration and Justice, Florinda da Rosa Silva Chan summarised the government's work towards the issue, stressing that it would continue fighting against such crimes.

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By host on 11/25/2008 9:43 AM

The day's lesson in a Coolidge High School history class in Northwest Washington was the degrading names pimps have for the girls and women whose bodies they exploit.

Exhibit A was rapper 50 Cent's "P-I-M-P," a club anthem that is an ode to the art of a male luring a female into prostitution with promises of a glamorous life under his protection. In the song, as in life, it's a ruse to enrich him.

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By host on 11/24/2008 2:04 PM

The plight of women being sold into sex slavery in Cyprus has been highlighted at a conference in Nicosia. Non-governmental groups meeting in the capital said that the slavery trade, specializing in the traffic of women, is booming. In Nicosia, Nathan Morley has this report for VOA.

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By host on 11/24/2008 2:00 PM

Worried by this development, the Comptroller-General of NIS, Mr. Chukwurah Udeh, had recently summoned the top hierarchy of the Immigration to discuss and find a solution to the issues of human trafficking.

 

He said, “We have a serious issue that had been of concern to the government. We discovered that so many able-bodied men are being brought into the country. We are not certain about where they are going, but we want to put a stop to it.

 

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By host on 11/24/2008 1:57 PM

Agents from the FBI wouldn’t go into specifics, but said that human trafficking occurs in all of Northern Virginia, including Prince William County.

FBI Agent Greg Bristol joined a panel discussion on human trafficking Wednesday at the ECPI College of Technology in Manassas.

Bristol’s supervisor, Pam Vanderburg, said the problem is more prevalent in more populated areas of Northern Virginia, but is not restricted to population centers.

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By host on 11/20/2008 5:01 PM

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By host on 11/20/2008 9:12 AM

The Department of Political Science and Latin American Research Centre will be hosting the event Payoke: Pioneering in the Fight Against Human Trafficking on Nov. 17. Patsy Sarensen, founder and director of the non-governmental organization Payoke, is also a member of the European Union Experts Group on Human Trafficking. She founded Payoke in 1988 to provide psychological, administrative and legal aid to victims of human trafficking and to combat all forms of forced prostitution.

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By host on 11/20/2008 9:04 AM

To hear that El Paso and Houston have slaves, now that's eye-opening, jaw-dropping and maybe even just plain unbelievable.

Not only that, the U.S. Department of Justice calls El Paso/Houston one of the most intense human trafficking regions in the nation. And this is 2008, not a couple hundred years ago prior to President Abraham Lincoln.

But it's true. A Texas attorney general's report shows Texas is the major hub for human trafficking, with nearly 20 percent of all captives being taken through the state on Interstate 10.

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By host on 11/20/2008 9:01 AM

More than 60 eastern Europeans, allegedly required to work long hours for little money, were removed from Lincolnshire leek fields yesterday morning in the UK's biggest move against human trafficking for labour exploitation.

Police believe the workers, aged 15 to 67, ended up with pay far below the minimum wage, after working up to 16 hours a day, six days a week.

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By host on 11/19/2008 9:23 AM

New prostitution laws to be set out today will mean a plea of ignorance is no defence for men facing prosecution for buying sex from a woman who has been trafficked or is being exploited by a pimp.

Under proposals to be published today by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, a man who "knowingly" pays for sex with a woman who has been trafficked or is under the control of a pimp could face a charge of rape, which carries a potential life sentence.

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By host on 11/19/2008 9:19 AM

Texas has become a major hub for human trafficking, state officials said yesterday while proposing a more aggressive response to what a senior government official described as "modern-day slavery".

Nearly 20% of human-trafficking victims found nationwide have been in Texas, according to a report released by the attorney general, Greg Abbott. The 57-page report, mandated by the legislature in 2007, also identifies Interstate 10 as a major route through Texas for human-trafficking rings.

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By host on 11/19/2008 9:15 AM

Two hundred staff from nine agencies took part in Operation Ruby across Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.

Police said 60 workers from Eastern Europe were being interviewed as victims of an operation run by a gang.

The workers were picking leeks in a field near Holbeach, Lincolnshire, when officers carried out the first raid.

A police spokeswoman said the men and woman, aged between 15 to 67, had been taken to Kettering, Northamptonshire, where they were being treated as potential witnesses and victims.

Houses searched

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By host on 11/18/2008 10:48 AM

OSLO, Norway, Nov. 18 – Norway is opening its door to victims and witnesses of human trafficking as the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion instructed the Directorate of Immigration (UDI) to provide them residence permits.

 

“The new instructions allow permanent work or residence permits for Norway to be issued to the persons in question. This is to ensure that victims of human trafficking can testify without fear of retaliation in their country of origin, and to make sure that we catch more ringleaders,” Labor and Social Inclusion State Secretary Libe Rieber-Mohn said.

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By host on 11/18/2008 10:46 AM

Texas has become a major hub for human trafficking, state officials said Monday while proposing a more aggressive response to what a senior lawmaker described as "modern-day slavery."

Nearly 20 percent of human-trafficking victims found nationwide have been in Texas, according to a report released by Attorney General Greg Abbott. The 57-page report, mandated by the Legislature in 2007, also identifies Interstate 10 as a major route through Texas for human-trafficking rings.

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By host on 11/17/2008 11:42 AM

New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) There is an urgent need to have a comprehensive legislation to tackle human trafficking, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan said here Saturday, adding: “It touches on the domains of human rights protection and gender justice, while posing difficult problems for law enforcement officials”.Balakrishnan inaugurated a day long meet on “Justice Delivery in Human Trafficking Crimes” at Vigyan Bhavan here.

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By host on 11/17/2008 11:39 AM

"Furthermore, due to the lack of awareness and education, we may have missed many opportunities to address victims' special circumstances and needs.

"This modern form of slavery flourishes largely because our knowledge and responses are inadequate."

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