An
unmarked building in Queens will open its doors next month to a handful
of women ensnared in the global sex trade, becoming New York City's
first safehouse dedicated to victims of international sex trafficking.
The victims are part of the city's population of undocumented
immigrants, often lured to the country with the promise of jobs and then
coerced into prostitution by their smugglers.
In our commitment to preventing human trafficking, the world is moving
beyond poster campaigns to more innovative solutions that harness the
private sector to end the demand for modern slavery. I wanted to share
some new developments on that front.
With Halloween quickly approaching,
October is a particularly opportune month to raise awareness about the
use of forced labor, child labor, and other exploitative labor practices
in the chocolate industry. A number of organizations are hosting
campaigns to help community members raise awareness about these issues
and to encourage the chocolate ind... Continue reading ...
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...
http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/new_uk_study_one_in_ten_women_in_prostitution_are_slaves by Amanda Kloer
An explosive new report out of the U.K. has estimated that at least
one in ten women in prostitution in the country are victims of human
trafficking. It also found that at least 15% of migrant women in
prostitution are forced or coerced into the trade and up to 40% of them
may be exploited just shy of slavery. These findings could help blow the
lid off the notion t... Continue reading ...
Posing for her first school photograph, Joanne was
like any other girl at the age of five. She loved drawing and painting,
and her favourite game was to play hide-and-seek in the woods near her
home in Leeds with her five siblings. As she grew, Joanne liked to hang
around, chatting and laughing with frien...
SEATTLE - A south King County, Wash., man who traveled to
Cambodia to have sex with young girls pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal
charges of sexual exploitation of a child, following an investigation by
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Homeland
Security Investigations (HSI).
Craig Thomas Carr, 59, of Kent, Wash., admitted in his plea agreement
that prior to his trip to Phnom Penh, Cambo...
They are still children, only 12 or 13 years old.
They fall in love for the first time, at the school gates or on
Facebook, and wind up with a pimp. Parents and police are struggling
against the hold so-called loverboys have over young girls, but often
it's already too late.
It had happened again the previous evening. One of her johns came
into her booth behind the glass window, ...
Editors Note: Harvard human
trafficking fellow Siddharth Kara is undertaking a research trip around
South Asia, looking at issues of forced labor, trafficking and child
bondage. He will be getting access to the heart of the problem, and
telling CNN.com readers what he has discovered every week over the next
ten weeks. This is his ...
My print
column this week examines widelyreportedclaims
that 40,000 sex workers will be trafficked into South Africa for the
World Cup. Similar claims surfaced
before the 2006 Cup in Germany.
“It is the kind of number which has no identifiable source and no
transparent methodology,” said Patrick Belser, a senior...
A sobering new
report from the State Department finds that more than 12 million
people worldwide are victims of "trafficking in persons" — trapped in
forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution. But just 4,166 people
were convicted of trafficking last year, the report says.
Even so, awareness of the reach of modern slavery has made such crimes
easier to r...
News reports and public service announcements on South African TV
estimate up to 100,000 people may fall victim to sex trafficking during
the FIFA World Cup, which begins on Friday. Concerned churches from
across the globe are sending missionaries to the games to minister to
sex workers and work alongside social services to help them.
Christians fight against human trafficking ahead of World Cup
by Wesley WJ Richards
Posted: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 8:48 (BST)
With the South African World Cup less than two weeks away, there is
continued concern that the event will be used for human trafficking.
It has been estimated that between 40,000 to 100,000 people may be
trafficked for the World Cup. In January, Time magazine reported on a
three week investigation into human trafficking. Finding a lucrative
t... Continue reading ...
South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It
By E. Benjamin Skinner
For a South African victim of human trafficking, this was the
endgame. On a freezing night last July, Sindiswa, 17, lay curled in a
fetal position in bed No. 7 of a state-run hospice in central
Bloemfontein. Well-used fly strips hung between fluorescent lights, pale
blue paint flaked off the walls, and fresh blood stained her sheets,
the rusty bedpost and the linoleum flo...
Mary
Nammour http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/May/theuae_May119.xml§ion=theuae&col=
5 May 2010
DUBAI — A salesman and a driver were
each sentenced to ten-year imprisonment on Tuesday by the Court of
First Instance for kidnapping two Filipino maids, confining them in a
room and t... Continue reading ...
Editor's note: Kevin Bales, a
co-founder of Free the Slaves, the American sister organization of
the UK's Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights
group, spoke about slavery at the TED2010 conference in February. Bales
is the author of "Ending Slavery" and, with Ron Soodalter, "The Slave
Next Door: Modern Slavery in the United States." TED, a nonprofit
organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading," hosts talks on many
subjects and makes them available through its...
Flight attendants at a
large U.S. airline are training other flight attendants to recognize
signs of human trafficking on international and domestic flights. The
flight attendant leading the program says it's possible to catch
traffickers in the act, saving the lives of women and children trapped
in the net.
For a moment in time, strangers from around the world come together as
travelers.
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