By host on 12/22/2008 9:43 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The Sunday Guardian in Trinidad has published a disturbing front page report in which it alleges that human traffickers are on the prowl, looking to lure children and women to sell them for big money.

The report states that "children, because they live longer, are sold for over $200,000. Adults can fetch as much as $100,000. They are mostly used as sex slaves and sometimes for slave labour.

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By host on 12/18/2008 9:58 AM

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia still has limited knowledge in dealing with human-trafficking issues, according to the International Labour Organization.

ILO`s representative in Indonesia Alan Boulton said here Tuesday people prone to practices of human trafficking were those who have very little knowledge on how to protect themselves against the crime.

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By host on 12/18/2008 9:54 AM

VISTA, Calif. (CNS) -- Additional charges were filed Wednesday against three of four young adults charged with kidnapping two teenage girls from El Cajon with the intent of forcing them into prostitution.

Shawndrea Dorrough, 21, Patrick Jones, 20, and Dywane Tousant, 22, pleaded not guilty to charges of human trafficking and pandering of a child under 16.

 

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By host on 12/18/2008 9:49 AM

When Mozambique emerged from its gruelling war of liberation in 1975, it was immediately plunged into a civil war that would last until 1992.

Under such uncertain conditions, the country's leaders had little time to implement laws or ratify international conventions.

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By host on 12/17/2008 1:13 PM

A man accused of smuggling women into the country and forcing them into prostitution in Tallahassee is headed to prison.

Jorge Melchor was arrested last year after two Guatemalan women escaped from his home in Northeast Tallahassee and called for help.

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By host on 12/16/2008 11:27 AM

A 15-YEAR-OLD Shaanxi Province girl broke her back when she jumped from a second-story bedroom to escape a life of forced prostitution.

The girl is now awaiting surgery, according to Xinmin Evening News.

Police have arrested a woman who allegedly lured the girl into prostitution.

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By host on 12/16/2008 11:19 AM

Two people have been jailed for their part in the trafficking and exploitation of women for sex in Kent.

Gerard Carroll, 51, of Whetsted Road, Tonbridge, was given two 18-month jail terms, to run concurrently, at Maidstone Crown Court on Monday.

Moi Cheng Chua, 47, of Mercer Street, Tunbridge Wells, received two 12-month sentences, also to run concurrently.

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By host on 12/15/2008 9:47 AM

A round table on the practices and challenges of combating trafficking in human beings in Europe on December 9 presented a general message of the necessity of cross-border co-operation, and of the conviction of the possibility to change the situation in Bulgaria.

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By host on 12/15/2008 9:44 AM

The government will have zero tolerance for organised crime and human trafficking, Deputy Interior Minister Fatmir Xhelili told a conference on strategies to combat human trafficking Thursday. 

 

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By host on 12/15/2008 9:42 AM

Costa Rica (MNN) ― Human trafficking is a huge problem around the world. According to the United Nations, Costa Rica is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor.

Speaking from Costa Rica, Brooke Burns with The Mission Society says, "Costa Rica is actually considered one of the countries in Central America that is one of the worst offenders in this area. Sex tourism is a very lucrative business here, and its proximity to the United States makes it easy for people to get here."

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By host on 12/11/2008 9:28 AM

Nigerian Ambassador to Italy and Crown Prince of Benin, Eheneden Erediauwa and Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State are expected to launch an action project designed to sensitize vulnerable community dwellers and strengthen collabo-ration with stakeholders to combat the human trafficking scourge in Edo State soon.

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By host on 12/11/2008 9:21 AM

Aunt B" is a slave trader whose victims may well be looking after the children in some of British Columbia's wealthiest neighbourhoods.

For 20 years, Aunt B has recruited young women from poor Central American countries to work as nannies or in various aspects of the sex trade in this country. She charges them $3,000 each, pocketing all of it even though she tells the young women that $1,000 goes to the employers who demand something in exchange for hiring them -- a practice that is illegal in Canada.

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By host on 12/10/2008 9:15 AM

On December 9, a day before Human Rights Day, a roundtable discussion on the practices and challenges of combating trafficking in human beings in Europe was held in Sofia. Presented was a general message of the necessity of cross-border co-operation, and of the conviction of the possibility to change the situation in Bulgaria.

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By host on 12/10/2008 9:11 AM

A 26-year-old North Korean woman, Mun Yun-hee crossed the Duman or Tumen River into China in the dawn of Oct. 22 last year, which at that point was some 40 m wide, guided by a human trafficker. She was being sold to a single middle-aged Chinese farmer into a kind of indentured servitude-cum-companionship. Both of them wore only panties, having stored their trousers and shoes in bags, because if you are found wearing wet clothes across the river deep at night, it is a dead giveaway that you are a North Korean refugee.

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By host on 12/9/2008 9:37 AM

Every other prostitute in Brussels is from the Bulgarian city of Sliven, according to an extensive article published in the Belgium daily "Le Soir", the Bulgaria Information Agency (BTA) reported.

The article is dedicated to the official opening of the international three-day congress in Rio de Janeiro focused on sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.

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By host on 12/9/2008 9:28 AM

Federal immigration officials agreed Monday to long-awaited proposals that for the first time would provide a path to permanent legal residency to hundreds of human trafficking victims in Houston and across the United States.

The move came two weeks after the Houston Chronicle reported that only about half of the victims of human trafficking identified by federal investigators in the U.S. are getting promised visas to help rebuild their lives — despite their cooperation in prosecuting traffickers.

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By host on 12/8/2008 9:56 AM

MANILA, 2 December 2008 (IRIN) - A recent court ruling has given fresh impetus to the battle against human trafficking.
 
An owner and a cashier at a bar in Daraga, Albay - south of Manila - were convicted for trafficking minors for sexual exploitation on 27 November. They were sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment and fined around US$20,000.
 
The case involved four girls, 14 to 16 years old, who were trafficked from their homes in Manila to the bar and forced to work as "guest relation officers".

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By host on 12/8/2008 9:42 AM

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By host on 12/8/2008 9:40 AM

It's astounding, really, that the subject even exists.

However, to ignore the facts that are staring South Dakota in the face only would make an unthinkable situation worse.

Regional and national experts say that human trafficking is an invisible trade that's been operating in South Dakota for years.

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By host on 12/5/2008 9:07 AM

THE case of a woman, allegedly from Somalia, who was arrested at Hosea Kutako airport last week after being found travelling with counterfeit Irish documents, may be indicative of a human trafficking syndicate at work, immigration officials suggest.

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