Each year, thousands of women, children and men are trafficked into modern day slavery. It may be that, as you travel on business, you see signs of people being forced to sell sex, or work in forced labor. Now you can report in a low-key and simple way, what you have seen. By sending a message through this website, you will enable Business Travellers against Human Trafficking to connect with the appropriate authorities to investigate further.
Business Travellers against Human Trafficking can also supply high quality training and resources to inform you and your staff on how to recognize the signs of human trafficking and what action to take.
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Global news on human trafficking
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1/28/2009 3:27 PM
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, graced the front pages of many newspapers across the country last Friday. Clinton's qualifications were praised by her Senate colleagues, and John McCain even took fellow Republicans to task for delaying her confirmation. (The Washington Post reports that "A joke made its way around the Capitol yesterday: How do you know the 2008 election is really over? Because John McCain is causing trouble for Republicans again.)
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1/28/2009 3:24 PM
AMMAN, 27 January 2009 (IRIN) - The Jordanian parliament has endorsed legislation to combat human trafficking in light of international complaints that local companies are sending foreign workers to Iraq against their will.
The law, endorsed on 25 January, paves the way for the creation of an anti-human trafficking commission to oversee its implementation. The commission will be affiliated to the Ministry of Labour and will include officials from the police and Ministry of Justice.
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1/19/2009 11:47 AM
New legislation introduced in Norway will make it illegal to pay for sex in a bid to stamp out human trafficking and exploitation.
Anyone caught purchasing sex could face heavy fines or go to prison for up to six months. Where child prostitution is involved, the prison sentence could be extended to three years.
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1/19/2009 11:42 AM
Police authorities in Nigeria have rescued 17 suspected victims of human trafficking, including a nine year old, from a bus which crossed the Nigerian border from Benin. Two suspects arrested by the police say the boys were being taken to the southwestern state of Oyo, to work on a farm.
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1/13/2009 9:21 AM
LOS ANGELES—Ten unsuspecting female immigrants were lured into the U.S. under the promise of legitimate work, only to be forced into lives of captivity, abuse and prostitution, federal prosecutors have alleged.
A group of four women and a man told the immigrants they could secure work in the U.S. as waitresses or in another legitimate job, prosecutors said. But upon arrival the immigrants were told they would have to sell themselves into prostitution to cover the cost of being smuggled into the country.
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1/7/2009 1:39 PM
Human trafficking is a sterile term, used to mask the grimmest of realities. Popular culture - from Peter Robinson's police procedural "Strange Affair" to the film "Taken" - captures the more sensationalist dimensions of this vile and pernicious phenomenon: the coercion or abduction or of young girls (some of them minors) and their forced conversion into prostitutes. But there is a lot more to it than that.
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1/6/2009 10:33 AM
Human trafficking – better known as modern day slavery – is a worldwide problem that affects even the bucolic Sonoma Valley. While 70 percent of trafficked victims are women and children who are forced into hard labor or sexual slavery, the plight also hits us closer to home, extending to migrant farm and construction workers, household employees, and workers in motels and restaurants.
January 11 is National Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Awareness Day. On this Sunday, Soroptimist International clubs in Sonoma, Marin, and Mendocino counties are bringing awareness of this issue to citizens and agencies in the North Bay through a series of events at the Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa.
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1/6/2009 9:22 AM
Notwithstanding its other aspects, the election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African- American president should close the circle on our shameful history of treating human beings as if they were nothing more than livestock.
Anyone who thinks that California, whose admission to the Union in 1850 hinged largely on its status as a nonslave state, doesn't share that history is ignorant of its own early tolerance, even advocacy, of human slavery, both of Africans and Native Americans.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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