By host on 9/19/2009 6:23 PM

Dutch police are searching for a convicted human trafficker after he escaped while on temporary leave to see his newborn child last week.

By host on 9/19/2009 6:20 PM

Four Americans were accused of human trafficking in cases of  illegal adoption. "Last year, they adopted children from a Cairo orphanage that allegedly gave them forged documents stating the adoptive children had been born to them. Islamic law observed in Egypt bans Muslims from adopting children, in the name of maintaining clear bloodlines to ensure lines of patrimony and inheritance. At most, Muslims can take a child into long-term foster care, but this doesn't allow the child to inherit from the foster parents." 

 

By host on 9/11/2009 3:08 PM

The United States Department of Labor has produced a report listing 122 items from 58 countries that it believes were "produced by forced labor, child labor or both in violation of international standards.... The countries with products included on the TVPRA List span every region of te world. The most common items listed include cotton, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, rice and cocoa in agriculture; bricks, garments, carpets and footwear, manufacturing; and gold and coal in mined and quarried goods. For more information, click here.

 

 

By host on 9/11/2009 2:56 PM

 

Arguments are being made for a global list of sex offenders to help reduce international sex tourism. "The case has reinvigorated support for House Resolution 1623, the "'nternational Megan's law,' which US Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, introduced in March 2009. If passed, the bill would alert officials abroad when U.S. sex offenders intend to travel and would encourage other countries to keep sex-offender lists and notify American officials about offenders' U.S. travel plans. U.S. law can grab American predators overseas." To read more, click here.

By host on 9/11/2009 2:51 PM

 

A very unbalanced birth ration 112.1 male births per 100 female births in 2008, up from an estimated 106.2 in 2000 according to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) may lead to greater demand for sex workers and trafficked brides in Vietnam. To read more, click here.

By host on 9/2/2009 11:32 PM

Three men have been charged in US federal courts for traveling to Cambodia to have illicit sex with minors. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of up to 30 years. According to the Los Angeles Times, "They are the first to be charged under an international law-enforcement operation dubbed 'Twisted Traveler,' specifically targeting American sex offenders who travel to Cambodia, a country that one U.S. immigration official said was 'the world's ground zero for child sex tourists.'" To read more, click here.

By host on 9/2/2009 11:26 PM

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has released a manual called "Anti-Human Trafficking Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners" to address the gaps and failings in the criminal justice proceedings and protect victims of trafficking. UNODC hopes this will significantly impact the number of convictions for human trafficking. To read more, click here.

By host on 9/2/2009 11:20 PM

On August 23, the United Nations International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, the UN spoke out to remind the world about the fight against trafficking and slavery. A recent International Labour Organization study finds an estimated $28 billion is made from trafficking for sexual exploitation every year. And at least $21 billion is made from all other forms of forced labor. To read more, click here.

By host on 9/2/2009 11:16 PM

Click here to read the expose of human trafficking and slavery in restaurants around Germany.

By host on 9/2/2009 11:08 PM

A new ECPAT report states that "nearly 150,000 women and girls, mostly from Nepal and Bangladesh, are trafficked every year to India or to a third country through India, as sex slaves." To learn more, visit ECPAT.

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.