By host on 8/27/2009 10:47 PM

After a successful crackdown on the trafficking of foreign women into the country for the commercial sex industry, Israel faces a new problem as Israeli women have become a major target to replace foreign sex slaves. To read the stories of several of these Israeli girls, click here.

By host on 8/27/2009 10:39 PM

"According to new research by the University of Queensland's Human Trafficking Working Group, 90 per cent of the state's prostitution industry is operating illegally or outside the reach of the 1999 Prostitution Act." The legal brothels pay handsomely for their licenses ($30,000 AUS) a year, while people caught in trafficking and forced prostitution face only $2,000 to $3,000 fines. To read more about this struggle, click here.

 

By host on 8/27/2009 10:32 PM

Myanmarese refugees stuck in Malaysian camps have more than doubled since the beginning of the year. Many of these people are detained after being caught in human trafficking rings. 

By host on 8/27/2009 10:28 PM

The Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced that they have rescued 3,400 people between April and August from human trafficking rings. That includes 1,352 children and 2,054 women in 2,162 human trafficking cases. They also broke up 525 criminal gangs and detained 824 suspects, the ministry said. To read more, click here.

By host on 8/11/2009 11:43 PM

Young Chinese boys are being abducted with increasing frequency because of the cultural premium placed on having a male child with the one-child policy. To read one family's story, click here.

By host on 8/3/2009 3:55 PM

Canadian singer, Eric Profitt, is making a 249 mile run from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to the Statue of Liberty in New York City wearing chains to raise awareness of the plight of human trafficking victims. To learn more, click here.

By host on 8/3/2009 3:51 PM

The Somaly Mam Foundation, The Body Shop, and ECPAT have teamed up to create the Stop Sex Trafficking campaign. Products at The Body Shop will benefit these hardworking anti-trafficking groups. All proceeds from the sales of "Soft Hands Kind Heart Hand Cream will go to support ECPAT. All net proceeds from the sale of our Bag for Life and gift bags will go to the Somaly Mam Foundation. Your purchase of these items will support their mission to raise awareness, fund prevention programs and bring immediate relief to children and young people affected by sex trafficking in our country and around the world."

 

By host on 8/3/2009 3:44 PM

Italian police have arrested 17 people in an international human trafficking ring bust. This ring was bringing men from Asia, primarily Bangladesh and Pakistan, to work in Italian agricultural fields in debt bondage. To read more, click here.

By host on 8/3/2009 3:38 PM

Uzbek woman, "Svetlana," tells her story of being trafficked to Dubai and forced into the commercial sex industry. Svetlana was rescued by the UAE's first shelter for victims of human trafficking. See the YouTube interview by Al Jazeera by clicking here.

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.