Source: Global development | theguardian.com:
Healthcare professionals working for Médicins sans Frontières in the gold and diamond mining regions of Okapi forest, Orientale province, say they have treated hundreds of women who had been seized from villages and held as sex slaves, many of whom have life-threatening injuries from sustained abuse. Men and children are also being kidnapped and made to work in the mines.
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http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/23/sexual-slavery-democratic-republic-congo-msf
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Human trafficking activists welcome supreme court ruling on compensation | Law | theguardian.com
Human trafficking activists welcome supreme court ruling on compensation | Law | theguardian.com:
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
Campaigners against human trafficking have welcomed a supreme court ruling that victims are entitled to compensation for mistreatment even if their entry into the UK was illegal.
The unanimous judgment overturns a decision by the court of appeal that had deprived a young Nigerian woman of an employment tribunal award against her former employer.
Read: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jul/30/human-trafficking-campaigners-supreme-court-ruling-compensation
Monday, July 28, 2014
Special Issue: “Trafficking in Persons” (Journal of Intercultural Studies) | Research on Human Trafficking
Source: Research on Human Trafficking:
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Introduction: Trafficking in Persons (Free access here)
Natividad Gutiérrez Chong, Jenny Bryson Clark
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Jenny Bryson Clark, Denese McArthur
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Sasha Poucki, Nicole Bryan
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Shobha Hamal Gurung
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Arun Kumar Acharya
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Natividad Gutiérrez Chong
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Douglas Lorman
Introduction: Trafficking in Persons (Free access here)
Natividad Gutiérrez Chong, Jenny Bryson Clark
Jenny Bryson Clark, Denese McArthur
Sasha Poucki, Nicole Bryan
Shobha Hamal Gurung
Arun Kumar Acharya
Natividad Gutiérrez Chong
Douglas Lorman
Understanding the economics of human trafficking
Source: phys.org
Tackling human trafficking in Europe requires a more in-depth knowledge of its causes. Well aware of this knowledge gap, the European Commission is funding the FP7 project TRACE, a two-year initiative which kicked off in May 2014 and aims to better understand the perpetrator and the victims as well as investigating how the recruitment process takes place.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-economics-human-trafficking.html#jCp
Tackling human trafficking in Europe requires a more in-depth knowledge of its causes. Well aware of this knowledge gap, the European Commission is funding the FP7 project TRACE, a two-year initiative which kicked off in May 2014 and aims to better understand the perpetrator and the victims as well as investigating how the recruitment process takes place.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-economics-human-trafficking.html#jCp
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Doctors can help human trafficking victims: reports | Reuters
Source: Reuters:
BY ANDREW M. SEAMAN
BY ANDREW M. SEAMAN
(Reuters Health) - Healthcare professionals can play a role in addressing human trafficking and sexual exploitation, according to two new reports.
Doctors and researchers write in JAMA Pediatrics that it’s up to a collection of people and agencies to advance and strengthen U.S. efforts to prevent, identify and respond to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors.
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Monday, July 21, 2014
'Thailand 'on trial' over food industry exposé victimisation' - Andrew Drummond
'Thailand 'on trial' over food industry exposé victimisation' - Andrew Drummond:
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has described Thailand as being ‘on trial’ for allowing a company to prosecute a human rights defender who exposed modern day slavery in its canned fruit and fishing industry.
Read Andrew Drummond's article:
http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2014/07/thailand-on-trial-over-food-industry.html
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has described Thailand as being ‘on trial’ for allowing a company to prosecute a human rights defender who exposed modern day slavery in its canned fruit and fishing industry.
Read Andrew Drummond's article:
http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2014/07/thailand-on-trial-over-food-industry.html
Friday, July 18, 2014
U.S. Admits Modern-Day Slavery Exists at Home | American Civil Liberties Union
Source: American Civil Liberties Union:
By Jennifer Turner, Human Rights Researcher, Human Rights Program, ACLU
By Jennifer Turner, Human Rights Researcher, Human Rights Program, ACLU
Some of America's most vulnerable workers are victims of modern-day slavery, and the government knows it. What's worse: These workers are protecting U.S. military and economic interests – but the U.S. isn't protecting them.
In its annual Trafficking in Persons Report, released Friday, the State Department acknowledged that trafficking and forced labor still exist in America. The report includes several examples: abuse of third-country nationals trafficked to work on military bases, migrant domestic workers subjected to forced labor by diplomats and international organization personnel, and temporary guest workers in a variety of industries forced to work under horrifying conditions with nowhere to turn. While it's important that the report stresses there's more the U.S. government can do to stem trafficking in America, it offers nothing new and recycles much of its findings and recommendations from past years — recommendations that still haven't been fully implemented.
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https://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights-immigrants-rights-womens-rights/us-admits-modern-day-slavery-exists-home
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