By host on 7/28/2009 5:31 PM

A female gang of traffickers were busted in their brothel in Dubai for forcing Eastern European women into prostitution. To read more about one victim's story, click here.

By host on 7/22/2009 3:26 PM

More than 10,000 women a year are trafficked from the southern and central states of Mexico to the northern parts for commercial sexual exploitation. According to a report released this week, out of every ten women trafficked, seven are exploited in the country and three are taken to the United States. To read more, click here.

 

By host on 7/22/2009 3:26 PM

More than 10,000 women a year are trafficked from the southern and central states of Mexico to the northern parts for commercial sexual exploitation. According to a report released this week, out of every ten women trafficked, seven are exploited in the country and three are taken to the United States. To read more, click here.

 

By host on 7/21/2009 2:29 PM

Nine people - including five immigration officers - have been arrested in Malaysia on charges of trafficking Thai refugees into situations of forced labor. For more on this story, click here.

By host on 7/21/2009 2:27 PM

Romania has detained three people - two Israelis and one Romanian - in a case of alleged human egg trafficking out of a Bucharest-based fertility clinic. 

By host on 7/20/2009 8:33 PM

Metropolitan Police have secured funding to help protect the women who have been or will be brought to London for the 2012 Olympic Games. "According to research carried out at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, about 10,000 sex workers were operating in the area. In Athens in 2004, the ministry of public safety identified a 95% increase in the number of human trafficking victims." To read more, click here.

By host on 7/20/2009 8:23 PM

Albanian lawmakers recently banned speedboats, a preferred method for traffickers to take their victims out of the country, and it has sizeably reduced the number of people trafficked out of Albania. The continuation of this trend will be critical to Albania's bid to join the EU. To read more about trafficking in Albania, click here.

By host on 7/17/2009 3:25 PM

The recent Trafficking in Persons report by the United States Department of State called Canada "a source, transit and destination country for men, women and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labour." Much of the sex traffick occurs internally, and many of the victims are First Nation women and girls. 

By host on 7/16/2009 2:52 PM

This is the story of a 14-year-old Filipino girl, Lara, and her fight through trafficking and recovery. To read more, click here.

By host on 7/14/2009 11:45 PM

Local NGOs and police have teamed up to prepare a plan to fight trafficking in response to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The Red Light campaign has come in the wake of the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report, which recommended that South Africa “address demand for commercial sex acts and protect children from commercial sexual exploitation in advance of the 2010 World Cup”. 

By host on 7/14/2009 11:40 PM

Four Greek police officers were arrested for trafficking over 300 Eastern European women for prostitution in the last year. To read more, click here.

By host on 7/14/2009 11:34 PM

Twenty-two women were freed in a bar raid in Dili, East Timor after being forced to do sexual work by ten people who were arrested in the same raid. To read more, click here.

By host on 7/14/2009 11:27 PM

Teen girls in Canada have been selling sex on the internet classified Web site, Craigslist. Police report that some of these women - as young as 13 - do so voluntarily, but that others are being forced to sell their bodies online by pimps. They also report that some of these women are being recruited through social networking Web sites, such as Facebook. Read more here.

By host on 7/14/2009 11:18 PM

Beyoncé Knowles, Halle Berry, Demi Moore, Sinead O'Connor, Mary J Blige, Katie Ford and others have teamed up with GEMS: Girls Educational and Mentoring Services - a survivor-led organization - to raise awareness of human trafficking and sexual slavery in the Girls Are Not for Sale campaign. Approximately 100,000 and 300,000 American children and teens are trafficked each year.To read more, click here.

 

By host on 7/14/2009 11:14 PM

The Indian government released a report claiming that 3,000 of the 5,000 missing persons in the central state of Chhattisgarh are young girls supposedly trafficked out. Click here to find out more.

By host on 7/14/2009 11:12 PM

Storyville Coffee Company donated all its proceeds in May to the International Justice Mission (IJM),  a human rights agency that rescues victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of oppression. These monies will allow the IJM to expand its work to Ecuador, where many young people face dangers of being trafficked to Eastern Europe. Click here for the story.

By host on 7/14/2009 11:05 PM

Storyville Coffee Company gave away all its proceeds in the month of May to the International Justice Mission (IJM), a human rights agency that rescues victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of oppression. These funds allow the IJM to expand its work into Ecuador where there young people face serious dangers being trafficked into Eastern Europe. Click here for the story.

By host on 7/14/2009 10:56 PM

Twenty-three arrests were made in Taipei accused of bringing Indonesian women into Taiwan at a cost of NT$80,000 (US$2,400), arranging marriages and forcing them into the labor market. Click here to read more. 

By host on 7/14/2009 10:51 PM

Europol and the Italian Carabinieri targeted more than 30 Nigerian nationals accused of human trafficking throughout Europe following a bust in April of an international drug trafficking ring. The drug ring used human mules to move its product, these women were also forced into prostitution. To read more, click here.

By host on 6/30/2009 7:53 PM

The Irish Gardai are investigating 65 cases of human trafficking, 14 of which involve children. Half of these cases involve asylum seekers. An immigration spokesman said that the government needed to provide better accomodations for newly arrived asylees to avoid these pitfalls. Click here for more information.