http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/bcat
About the Author: Ambassador Luis CdeBaca leads the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
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.
On October 1, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the California Transparenc... Continue reading ...
Church plans run to end human trafficking
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...
Posted by Free the Captives on Saturday, August 21, 2010,
http://www.jaderiderjourneys.com/ChainsBreakingChains/2010/07/26/setting-a-departure-date/
The departure date has now been set. Or, I should say, it has
been reset. My original intention was to depart on September 7, 2010.
That date, seemed however to have been placed capriciously in my mind,
since closer inspection of the calendar revealed that not only did it
fall on a Tuesday, but that it is the Tuesday after Labor Day. There is
simply no sense in wasting three days of a long w... Continue reading ...
http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1007/100727seattle.htm
July 27, 2010
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... Continue reading ...
June 08, 2010
World Cup sex trafficking concerns churcheshttp://blogs.chron.com/believeitornot/2010/06/world_cup_sex_trafficking_conc.html
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.
There's always ... Continue reading ...
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 ...
Monday, Jan. 18, 2010
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... Continue reading ...
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