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Browsing Archive: September, 2010

Selling sex is not illegal in Sweden, but buying is

Posted by Free the Captives on Saturday, September 25, 2010, In : International Trafficking

By Karl Ritter, Associated Press Writer
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-16-sweden-prostitution_N.htm
3/18/2008

STOCKHOLM — Selling sex is not illegal in Sweden, but buying is — a radical approach to prostitution that faced ridicule when it was introduced nine years ago.

Now, while Americans are preoccupied with the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in a prostitution scandal, some countries are considering emulating the Swedish model, which prosecutes the client but vie...

Six-Month Report: Domestically Sex-Trafficked Minors on the Rise in Key States Read more: Six-Month Report: Domestically Sex-Trafficked Minors on the Rise in Key States

Posted by Julie Waters on Thursday, September 16, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/California/2010/09/15/CL65421

PR Newswire

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As Deborah Richardson, chief program officer for Women's Funding Network, is testifying today in Washington, D.C., before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security about the issue of "Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking," the results of a new study – also released today – indicate Internet classifi...

Demand Study of the commercial sexual exploitation of girls

Posted by Free the Captives on Thursday, September 16, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

View the DEMAND STUDY on the commercial sexual exploitation of girls in the state of Georgia.
http://www.womensfundingnetwork.org/sites/wfnet.org/files/AFNAP/TheSchapiroGroupGeorgiaDemandStudy.pdf

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Craigslist says it won't resume adult services

Posted by Free the Captives on Wednesday, September 15, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091505041.html
By JIM ABRAMS

The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 15, 2010; 5:18 PM

WASHINGTON -- A Craigslist official told lawmakers Wednesday that the classified ad website has no plans to resume its adult services section and defended the company's efforts to stop the sexual exploitation of minors.

But William Clinton Powell also told a House Judiciary Committee panel that people seeking to advertise a...

Houston teen trafficked into prostitution video

Posted by Julie Waters on Thursday, September 9, 2010, In : Houston sex trafficking

'Dear John' billboards tout consequences of soliciting prostitutes on Mannheim strip

Posted by Julie Waters on Tuesday, September 7, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-chicago/dear-john

August 29, 2010

Men cruising Mannheim Road looking to buy sex will get a visual cold shower via a pair of anti-prostitution billboards.

The billboards are part of a campaign to curb "johns" who frequent a strip of Mannheim in Leyden Township noted for illicit activities.

In recent weeks, Cook County Sheriff's police have been cited under the Cook County Morals Ordinance, according to Sheriff Tom Dart, who held a news confe...

Johns arrested in MA: names published in newspaper; mayor would like to confiscate their cars

Posted by Free the Captives on Tuesday, September 7, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

By John Moss

Herald News Staff Reporter

Police arrest 23 in 'Operation John' prostitution bust

http://www.heraldnews.com/news/x1179100683/Police-arrest-23-in-Operation-John-prostitution-bust

Posted Aug 07, 2010 @ 07:38 PM

Last update Aug 08, 2010 @ 01:15 AM

FALL RIVER —

Responding to numerous complaints of prostitution activity in the do...
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Human Trafficking Initatives of Kingsland Baptist and Free the Captives

Posted by Free the Captives on Tuesday, September 7, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

Church plans run to end human trafficking

Kimberly Pina wrote on Sept. 6, 2010:

Erin Lowry couldn’t believe what girls her age in Southeast Asia had gone through. Girls as young as 13 and 14 had been taken from their families and sold into the hands of unknown adults who forced them into sexual or manual servitude.

“It was hard for me to see these girls so close to my age that had lived lives of normalcy,” said Lowry, 18, who traveled to Asia in July with other teenagers f...

Some See a Ploy as Craigslist Blocks Sex Ads

Posted by Free the Captives on Monday, September 6, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

September 5, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/technology/06craigslist.html?_r=1&src=buslnSome&pagewanted=print

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

SAN FRANCISCO — Craigslist, by shutting off its “adult services” section and slapping a “censored” label in its place, may be engaging in a high-stakes stunt to influence public opinion, some analysts say.

Since blocking access to the ads as the Labor Day weekend began — and suspending a revenue stream that could bring in ...

6 Accused In Forced Labor Of 400 Thai Workers in the US

Posted by Free the Captives on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129614349

HONOLULU September 3, 2010

Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history.

The indictment alleges that the scheme was orchestrated by four employees of labor recruiting company Global Horizons Manpower Inc. and two Tha...

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