April 16, 2014
Breaking News
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Thailand Charges Journalists for Human Trafficking Report
Source: VOA
BANGKOK — Two journalists in Thailand
are facing criminal charges for publishing a story about Thai security
forces' alleged involvement in trafficking Rohingya Muslims from Burma.
The story was originally produced by the Reuters news agency, which
this week won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for its
coverage of the Rohingya issue.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
From Buenos Aires to World: Pope Shines Spotlight on Trafficking | HispanicallySpeakingNews.com
Source: HispanicallySpeakingNews.com
As Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, the future pope dragged the hidden problem of human slavery into broad daylight.
He held annual open-air Masses in the city’s Constitution Square for
and with victims of human trafficking—many of them children accompanied
by their enormous burlap sacks stuffed with recyclable cardboard.
Continue:
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/from-buenos-aires-to-world-stage-pope-shines-spotlight-on-human-trafficking/29676/
As Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, the future pope dragged the hidden problem of human slavery into broad daylight.
He held annual open-air Masses in the city’s Constitution Square for
and with victims of human trafficking—many of them children accompanied
by their enormous burlap sacks stuffed with recyclable cardboard.
Continue:
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/from-buenos-aires-to-world-stage-pope-shines-spotlight-on-human-trafficking/29676/
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
States working to toughen laws against sex trafficking | SeacoastOnline.com
Source: SeacoastOnline.com
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http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20140413-NEWS-404130344
In the small town of Sydney, Maine, population
4,200, a father and son were arrested Thursday on charges of sex
trafficking for running a brothel out of their home with half a dozen
women. That same day, two people in Litchfield, Maine, population 3,600,
were arrested on the same charges for conducting a similar operation at
their mobile home.
Continue:
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20140413-NEWS-404130344
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Burma: Trafficking worsens with war's return | Green Left Weekly
Source: Green Left Weekly
Je yang camp, located a 30 minutes drive on often unpaved or rocky
road from Laiza, the capital of rebels in Kachin State in northern
Burma, accommodates about 8000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The wild landscape around the camp suggests the scenery would have been far more stunning without the presence of humans.
Continue:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56224
The wild landscape around the camp suggests the scenery would have been far more stunning without the presence of humans.
Continue:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56224
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Special Report - Flaws found in Thailand's human-trafficking crackdown - swissinfo.ch
Source: swissinfo.ch
By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Amy Sawitta Lefevre
SATUN, Thailand (Reuters) - After a two-hour trek through swamp and jungle, Police Major
General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot halts in a trash-strewn clearing near
Thailand's remote border with Malaysia.
"This is it," he says, surveying the remains of a deserted camp on a hillside pressed flat by the weight of human bodies.
Continue:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Special_Report_-_Flaws_found_in_Thailands_human-trafficking_crackdown.html?cid=38365296
By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Amy Sawitta Lefevre
SATUN, Thailand (Reuters) - After a two-hour trek through swamp and jungle, Police Major
General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot halts in a trash-strewn clearing near
Thailand's remote border with Malaysia.
"This is it," he says, surveying the remains of a deserted camp on a hillside pressed flat by the weight of human bodies.
Continue:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Special_Report_-_Flaws_found_in_Thailands_human-trafficking_crackdown.html?cid=38365296
Merchants of modern slavery: Sex traffickers use deception, manipulation to control victims - El Paso Times
Source: El Paso Times
They were wealthy and well-educated with words like "executive" and "Harvard" strung behind their names. They seemed like the type of man 21-year-old Denico Harris aspired to become.
But their big houses and impressive resumes masked an insidious underground world where young, vulnerable men were bought and sold.
By the time Harris discovered their secret, it was too late — he had become their slave.
Continue:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_25482694/sex-traffickers-use-deception-manipulation-control-victims
They were wealthy and well-educated with words like "executive" and "Harvard" strung behind their names. They seemed like the type of man 21-year-old Denico Harris aspired to become.
But their big houses and impressive resumes masked an insidious underground world where young, vulnerable men were bought and sold.
By the time Harris discovered their secret, it was too late — he had become their slave.
Continue:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_25482694/sex-traffickers-use-deception-manipulation-control-victims
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Feds, strip clubs fighting human trafficking - chicagotribune.com
Source: chicagotribune.com
It was a standard hotel conference room scene — slices of fresh fruit
and muffins laid out next to coffee urns and bottles of water chilling
on ice as the attendees straggled in, industry friends hugging hello and
quickly catching up on personal lives.
The west suburban conference, though, was hardly typical, and before
it got started a hotel manager, standing near TV cameras there to cover
the event, even asked an organizer to leave his hotel chain's name out
of remarks if possible.
The 100 or so attendees were dancers, doormen, valets and bartenders from six Chicago-area
strip clubs. And they were there to meet with federal agents from the
Department of Homeland Security about how they might offer help with a
problem that has increasingly become a target of law enforcement
investigations: sex trafficking.
Continue here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-strip-club-trafficking-training-met-20140406,0,467972.story
It was a standard hotel conference room scene — slices of fresh fruit
and muffins laid out next to coffee urns and bottles of water chilling
on ice as the attendees straggled in, industry friends hugging hello and
quickly catching up on personal lives.
The west suburban conference, though, was hardly typical, and before
it got started a hotel manager, standing near TV cameras there to cover
the event, even asked an organizer to leave his hotel chain's name out
of remarks if possible.
The 100 or so attendees were dancers, doormen, valets and bartenders from six Chicago-area
strip clubs. And they were there to meet with federal agents from the
Department of Homeland Security about how they might offer help with a
problem that has increasingly become a target of law enforcement
investigations: sex trafficking.
Continue here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-strip-club-trafficking-training-met-20140406,0,467972.story
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