Girls Kidnapped for Forced Marriage Suffer Rising Crime in India - Bloomberg

Source:  Bloomberg

Rupsona’s kidnappers struck at dusk, when most children in her village in eastern India were outside playing and their parents were resting after tending crops all day. The 14-year-old student had just finished geography class and was walking home along a road lined with rice paddies when she felt a blade at her throat.

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Thai navy sues journalists over Rohingya trafficking report - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- The Thai navy has filed criminal charges against two journalists over a report tying military personnel to human trafficking.

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Concern over rising human trafficking in Japan | Bangkok Post: news

Source: Bangkok Post: news

TOKYO - Sri took up what appeared at the outset to be a lucrative job offer at a Thai restaurant in Japan, since she hoped to earn money needed for her younger brother's schooling.

But she never imagined that on her arrival from Thailand she would find herself bound by a debt of nearly 5 million yen (1.56 million baht) to cover her broker's costs and be forced into prostitution.

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Spain grapples with human trafficking - Features - Al Jazeera English

Source: Al Jazeera English

"To raise society's awareness about what is happening, it has to be made clear that trafficking is not prostitution or irregular immigration, but that there are undocumented immigrants and people who are sexually exploited who are victims of trafficking," Maleno said.

Mira Sorvino, CNN child-sex series ‘shameful’ for Cambodians | Asian Correspondent

Source:  Asian Correspondent


WHEN U.S. actress Mira Sorvino came to Cambodia last week, a series of stories were released on “ending modern-day slavery.”  Sorvino accompanied the CNN Freedom Project, having experience as United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador Against Human 
Trafficking to assist the project and keep a journal.

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In Uzbekistan, the Practice of Forced Labor Lives On During the Cotton Harvest - NYTimes.com

Source: NYTimes.com

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — For most of the year, Dr. Tamara Khidoyatova treats patients as a doctor at a hospital here in this picturesque, old Silk Road city. But for a few weeks every autumn, she is forced to pick cotton, for which she is paid little or nothing.

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Polaris Webinar: Human Trafficking in Domestic Servitude

Source: Polaris Project

Check out this Webinar from the Polaris Project

( Polaris Project) - Every month, we provide the human trafficking field with vital resources, including trainings, indicators cards, and statistics. Recently, we released a training for service providers seeking to help survivors of labor trafficking through domestic work. Check out the training and pass it on: http://ow.ly/rP5Qs

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How text messages help the Polaris Project zero in on human trafficking - The Washington Post

Source:  The Washington Post

A few months ago, a worker monitoring a hotline for the Polaris Project, a nonprofit group dedicated to combating human trafficking, received a text message from an 18-year-old woman in distress.

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At human trafficking conference, Rhode Island authorities learn warning signs to help identify victims | The Providence Journal

Source:  The Providence Journal

CRANSTON — What are the signs that children are being sold for sex in Rhode Island?

Doctors, police officers and social workers in Rhode Island say they see the cases. So does the public. Ads for escort services display naked adolescent bodies and bill them as “school girl,” “fresh,” and “new in town.”

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Love’s partners with Truckers Against Trafficking | Fleet Management content from Fleet Owner

Source: Fleet Owners

Love’s Travel Stops has announced a partnership with Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) that includes a $10,000 donate to the nonprofit. TAT works to raise awareness among truck drivers and travel stop employees to fight human trafficking.

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http://fleetowner.com/fleet-management/love-s-partners-truckers-against-trafficking

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Climate change and slavery: the perfect storm?

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http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/dec/13/slavery-climate-change-poverty?et_cid=53278&et_rid=6861665&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fglobal-development-professionals-network%2f2013%2fdec%2f13%2fslavery-climate-change-poverty

Child laborers get the chance to share their stories through writing and art. — The Good Men Project

Source:  The Good Men Project

One of the privileges of working on child labor issues is getting to know the stories of individual child workers who heroically struggle against poverty and the considerable odds that are stacked against them. Thanks to a wonderful annual essay and art contest held by the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP), the management of the National Consumers League joins fellow leaders of the Child Labor Coalition (CLC) to serve as judges of the contest, through which we gain valuable insight into the plight of America’s most vulnerable young workers.

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http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/cc-essay-contest-spotlights-the-plight-of-child-farmworkers-in-the-us/

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The women who sold their daughters into sex slavery - CNN.com - CNN.com

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When a poor family in Cambodia fell afoul of loan sharks, the mother asked her youngest daughter to take a job. But not just any job.

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Pope Francis speaks out on human trafficking | CatholicHerald.co.uk

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The trafficking of human beings is a crime against humanity and must be stopped, Pope Francis has told a group of diplomats.

“It’s a disgrace” that people are treated “as objects, deceived, raped, often sold many times for different purposes and, in the end, killed or, in any case, physically and mentally damaged, ending up thrown away and abandoned,” he said.

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Child sex trafficking: Why Cambodia? - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- How has such a perverse trade been able to take root, let alone flourish, in Svay Pak?

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Knee-jerk reactions to human trafficking harm lives - academic

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Panicked policy reactions to human trafficking and an over-emphasis on the issue of sex trafficking can cause more harm than good for human trafficking survivors, academic, author and human trafficking expert, Pardis Mahdavi said.

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The invisible chains - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Source:  Al Jazeera English

For Tuan*, the realisation came in the middle of the night. They dragged a man into the room, chained him to a chair, and brutally beat him while Tuan was forced to watch. That was when he knew they were capable of harming him, or worse. 

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Modern slavery: now you know

Source: Church Times

Christians must act to fight trafficking, say Justin Welby and Peter Price.

The Most Revd Justin Welby is the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Rt Revd Peter Price is a former Bishop of Bath & Wells.

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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/29-november/comment/opinion/modern-slavery-now-you-know

SPECIAL REPORT-Thailand secretly dumps Myanmar refugees into trafficking rings

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

RANONG, Thailand, Dec 5 (Reuters) - One afternoon in October, in the watery no-man's land between 
Thailand and Myanmar, Muhammad Ismail vanished.

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http://www.trust.org/item/20131204234540-7ue31/?source=hpagehead