Archive for the 'Trafficking' Category
The U.S. government should reform immigration enforcement policies that inflict needless suffering on immigrant women and their families, a former immigration detention center nurse, a former detainee, and a group of leading human rights advocacy and research groups said at a Capitol Hill briefing.
Immigration detention is the fastest growing form of incarceration in the United [...]
The African Union Commission’s Initiative against Trafficking (AU.COMMIT Campaign) was launched here in Addis Ababa on Tuesday 16 June 2009, at the headquarters of the AU.
At the ceremony, the AU.COMMIT Campaign Strategy Document was presented by Mehari Taddele, Program Coordinator for Migration at the AU.
Mehari began by observing that June 16 was The Day of [...]
Police urged to show more empathy
As many as half of women who have moved from Thailand to Finland are believed to be living “underground”, beyond the reach of social safety nets, according to a fresh report on how Thai women have adapted to Finnish reality.
A large proportion of the 800-1200 Thai women living in [...]
The condition of victims of forced labour worldwide may be unrecognised because many states and organisations see it only in the light of a fight against prostitution.
The relation between prostitution and trafficking was one of the most controversial subjects debated at an international conference on trafficking called by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in [...]
While some security has finally arrived for the women of Basra, deep-rooted extremism remains an obstacle as they attempt to rebuild their lives
Lamis Munshed grew up in a house of music, filled with tambourines, lutes and newly carved guitars, and the scent of freshly cut timber hanging in the air like incense. But that was [...]
Three-quarters of those exploited as modern-day slaves work in the sex industry.
In a new report, the United Nations says human trafficking for the sex trade or forced labor market appears to be getting worse, not better, because many countries aren’t paying attention to it.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) surveyed 155 [...]
According to estimates by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, over 100,000 children and young women are sex trafficked every day in the United States. Most Americans think that this type of human traffic occurs elsewhere in the world in places like Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Throughout the U.S., children, especially girls are abducted [...]
The first meeting of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) will take place on 24-27 February 2009 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. At this first meeting GRETA will prepare and adopt its internal rules of procedure and elect its President and Vice-President. GRETA will also [...]
Hundreds of Chinese women have left their children behind in the hope of finding work in Paris, only to end up turning to street prostitution, a humanitarian group has said .
A report by Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) said the women, mostly in their forties and sharing small rooms, are often victims of [...]
Oman, which recently set up a Human Rights Commission, has reiterated its commitment to curbing trafficking in humans and sexual exploitation of children
Ugandan Parliament set to enact trafficking bill
Health providers – frequently the first professional a trafficking victim consults for help – are often thrust into the fight against organised crime without adequate preparation, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The agency says there is an urgent need to ensure care for trafficking victims and hopes to fill the gap with [...]
The Cebu City Council approved on its third and final reading the ordinance implementing the provisions of Republic Act 9208 or the “Cebu City Anti-Trafficking in Persons Ordinance”.
The ordinance, authored by Committee on Family and Women head councilor Lea Ouano-Japson, now formalizes the creation of the Cebu City Inter Agency Council Against Trafficking which will [...]
Criminals trading captured women often escape punishment
The UN has called for Lebanon’s human trafficking laws to be reformed because the country has become a popular destination for women smuggled from Moldova and other East European countries to be used as sex slaves. A report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [...]
Cambodian legislation against human trafficking and sexual exploitation is posing a threat to the country’s progress against HIV/AIDS. According to Tony Lisle, UNAIDS Cambodia country coordinator, the March 2008 legislation has “had unintentional consequences that have interrupted HIV prevention services in the sex industry.” He added that nongovernmental organizations are having “significant” difficulty providing commercial [...]
The warning posters start at the airport in the capital, Antananarivo, informing visitors that Madagascar says “NO to sex tourism” and “Malagasy women are not tourist souvenirs”.
Large billboards notifying arrivals that the authorities will also prosecute those caught having sex with children line the route into the city, and at tourist hotels – along with [...]
Ending years of debate and delay, Gov. David A. Paterson last month signed into law a bill shielding sexually exploited girls and boys from being charged with prostitution.
The law, known as the Safe Harbor for Exploited Youth Act, will divert children under the age of 18 who have been arrested for prostitution into counseling and [...]
Abandoned as a child in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge’s murderous reign, Somaly Mam has no memory of her family and doesn’t know her true age or name. But she recalls when she was sold to a brothel.
She traces a dramatic and haunting journey from sex slave to crusader against forced prostitution in her newly [...]
Working as a prostitute in Chicago decades ago, Beth Jacobs said she frequently got arrested, caught by both undercover stings and uniformed police officers. It wasn’t the same for her customers or her pimp.
“My pimp never went to jail and I went all the time, because I was the one that was out there,” said [...]
North Texas agencies should better identify victims of underage forced sex rings and prosecute their pimps on trafficking charges, according an assessment released last week.
Some minors caught engaging in prostitution are treated as juvenile delinquents or criminals rather than as victims, said Linda Smith, founder of Shared Hope International, a Washington D.C.-based organization that works [...]
Human trafficking is big in KwaZulu-Natal – and it is getting bigger, a workshop on the topic has heard. And, just as in the rest of South Africa, it largely takes the form of sexual exploitation.
There are girls and women working in brothels who have been lured into the province and the country on the [...]
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