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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Thursday, July 17, 2014
Trafficking Victims Told to Find Own Compensation | The Cambodia Daily
Source: The Cambodia Daily:
Matt Blomberg reported that officials of the Cambodian Ministry of Justice stated men who were forced to work under slave-like conditions on fishing vessels will not receive court-ordered compensations unless their lawyers can locate in Cambodia assets belonging to their traffickers.
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http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trafficking-victims-told-to-find-own-compensation-64163/
Matt Blomberg reported that officials of the Cambodian Ministry of Justice stated men who were forced to work under slave-like conditions on fishing vessels will not receive court-ordered compensations unless their lawyers can locate in Cambodia assets belonging to their traffickers.
Read Matt Blomberg's story here:
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trafficking-victims-told-to-find-own-compensation-64163/
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Invisible Victims: Sexual Exploitation And Trafficking Of Women In Mexico • SJS
Source: SJS'
Sex trafficking is now recognized as a global public health issue. Our study in Mexico has identified that trafficking of women for the purpose of sexual exploitation is highly associated with health risks such as psychological trauma, injuries from violence, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS, other adverse reproductive health outcomes, and substance misuse. Apart from that, we have seen from the study that trafficked women experienced a wide range of health problems, for example, frequent fever, back pain, stomach pain and sleep disorder (Acharya, 2014).
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http://www.socialjusticesolutions.org/2014/07/14/invisible-victums-sexual-exploitation-trafficking-women-mexico/
Sex trafficking is now recognized as a global public health issue. Our study in Mexico has identified that trafficking of women for the purpose of sexual exploitation is highly associated with health risks such as psychological trauma, injuries from violence, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS, other adverse reproductive health outcomes, and substance misuse. Apart from that, we have seen from the study that trafficked women experienced a wide range of health problems, for example, frequent fever, back pain, stomach pain and sleep disorder (Acharya, 2014).
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http://www.socialjusticesolutions.org/2014/07/14/invisible-victums-sexual-exploitation-trafficking-women-mexico/
Brazil's fight against slave labor | Globalization | DW.DE | 27.05.2014
Sourcr: DW.DE | 27.05.2014:
In Brazil, the extreme exploitation of workers has been shifting from rural areas toward the cities. In 2013, for the first time, more people were freed from slave-like conditions in urban centers than the countryside.
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http://www.dw.de/brazils-fight-against-slave-labor/a-17664728
In Brazil, the extreme exploitation of workers has been shifting from rural areas toward the cities. In 2013, for the first time, more people were freed from slave-like conditions in urban centers than the countryside.
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http://www.dw.de/brazils-fight-against-slave-labor/a-17664728
Monday, July 14, 2014
Human trafficking: Why aboriginal women are targeted - Aboriginal - CBC
Source: CBC:
Alia Parisien counts herself lucky that she found Honouring Gifts.
The program, at Ka Ni Kanichihk in Winnipeg, gives aboriginal women a second chance and teaches them jobs skills. Most of these women are overcoming challenges such as addictions, brushes with the law, and sexual exploitation.
“I was getting money as a kid, and it was so easy to get money from this guy just to do whatever he wanted to do to me,” said Parisien, now a 25-year-old mother.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/human-trafficking-why-aboriginal-women-are-targeted-1.2589265
Alia Parisien counts herself lucky that she found Honouring Gifts.
The program, at Ka Ni Kanichihk in Winnipeg, gives aboriginal women a second chance and teaches them jobs skills. Most of these women are overcoming challenges such as addictions, brushes with the law, and sexual exploitation.
“I was getting money as a kid, and it was so easy to get money from this guy just to do whatever he wanted to do to me,” said Parisien, now a 25-year-old mother.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/human-trafficking-why-aboriginal-women-are-targeted-1.2589265
Nepal's bogus orphan trade fuelled by rise in 'voluntourism' | Global development | The Guardian
Source: Global development | The Guardian
Like an increasing number of tourists visiting Nepal's mountain peaks, colourful markets and lush national parks, Marina Argeisa wanted to experience the latest must-do activity on the tourist trail: a volunteering stint at an orphanage.
Like an increasing number of tourists visiting Nepal's mountain peaks, colourful markets and lush national parks, Marina Argeisa wanted to experience the latest must-do activity on the tourist trail: a volunteering stint at an orphanage.
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Ohioans selling sex with their own kids | The Columbus Dispatch
Source: The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio children younger than 6 have been sexually trafficked by their own parents in exchange for drugs, rent and cash, a new report indicates.
Information from the Ohio Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers shows that 51 minors from across the state were potential human-trafficking victims — five of them age 6 or younger — over a nine-month period. The network has a state contract to screen children referred by law enforcement, children’s services agencies and others, to determine whether they may have been trafficked.
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Sunday, July 13, 2014
State Department documents rise in human trafficking
Source: Watchdog.org
Check out this story by Malia Zimmerman | Watchdog.org
Check out this story by Malia Zimmerman | Watchdog.org
HONOLULU — Americans celebrated independence, liberty and freedom on Fourth of July, but a new report from the U.S. State Department shows there are plenty of people in this country who aren’t free.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing Tuesday on how forced labor and modern-day slavery is being combated, and reviewed an earlier report that documented human trafficking around the world.
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Brides for sale: trafficked Vietnamese girls sold into marriage in China | Global development | theguardian.com
Source: theguardian.com:
When Kiab turned 16, her brother promised to take her to a party in a tourist town in northern Vietnam. Instead, he sold her to a Chinese family as a bride.
When Kiab turned 16, her brother promised to take her to a party in a tourist town in northern Vietnam. Instead, he sold her to a Chinese family as a bride.
The ethnic Hmong teenager spent nearly a month in China until she was able to escape from her new husband, seek help from local police and return to Vietnam.
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Sunday, July 6, 2014
Out of the Shadows: A Tool for the Identification of Victims of Human Trafficking | Vera Institute of Justice
Source: Vera Institute of Justice
http://www.vera.org/pubs/special/human-trafficking-identification-tool
http://www.vera.org/pubs/special/human-trafficking-identification-tool
06/10/2014
The landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act made trafficking in persons a federal crime in 2000, but the greatest obstacle to rescuing victims of human trafficking is identifying them. To make identifying these people easier—and subsequently, getting them the services and support they need while also generating evidence against their traffickers—Vera created a screening tool to be used by victim service providers and law enforcement when faced with someone who may be a victim of human trafficking. The tool, a 30-topic questionnaire that was tested by service providers and validated by Vera researchers, is the result of a two-year study funded by the National Institute of Justice.
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Army orders trafficking crackdown | Bangkok Post: news
Source: Bangkok Post: news:
By Thanida Tansubhapol
Stung by Thailand being downgraded in a major human trafficking report, the military has pledged to make the issue a high priority and will bring in stringent and comprehensive...
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By Thanida Tansubhapol
Stung by Thailand being downgraded in a major human trafficking report, the military has pledged to make the issue a high priority and will bring in stringent and comprehensive...
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Friday, July 4, 2014
Malaysia’s Dismal Trafficking Record - NYTimes.com
Source: NYTimes.com:
In its 2014 Trafficking in Persons report released June 20, the U.S. State Department downgraded Malaysia to its lowest Tier 3 status. The downgrade puts Malaysia at risk of American economic and diplomatic penalties.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/opinion/malaysias-dismal-trafficking-record.html?_r=1
In its 2014 Trafficking in Persons report released June 20, the U.S. State Department downgraded Malaysia to its lowest Tier 3 status. The downgrade puts Malaysia at risk of American economic and diplomatic penalties.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/opinion/malaysias-dismal-trafficking-record.html?_r=1
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Cambodia Remains on US ‘Watch List’ for Human Trafficking
Source: VOA
“Endemic corruption at all levels of the Cambodian government continues to severely limit the ability of individual officials to make progress in holding traffickers accountable,” the report says.
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http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-remains-on-us-watch-list-for-human-trafficking/1943046.html
“Endemic corruption at all levels of the Cambodian government continues to severely limit the ability of individual officials to make progress in holding traffickers accountable,” the report says.
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http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-remains-on-us-watch-list-for-human-trafficking/1943046.html
Lack of clear definitions on human trafficking in South Asia is hurting victims | WNN – Women News Network
Source:| WNN – Women News Network:
(WNN/IRIN) Jakarta, INDONESIA, SOUTHEAST ASIA: A 2012 UNODC – UN Office on Drugs and Crime report on human trafficking recorded more than 10,000 cases of trafficking in persons in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific between 2007-2010, but it is unclear what the situation is today. Tens of thousands of people are vulnerable to being trafficked in Southeast Asia, with governments struggling to understand and respond collectively to the problem, say experts and government officials.
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http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/05/07/definition-on-human-trafficking-south-asia/
(WNN/IRIN) Jakarta, INDONESIA, SOUTHEAST ASIA: A 2012 UNODC – UN Office on Drugs and Crime report on human trafficking recorded more than 10,000 cases of trafficking in persons in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific between 2007-2010, but it is unclear what the situation is today. Tens of thousands of people are vulnerable to being trafficked in Southeast Asia, with governments struggling to understand and respond collectively to the problem, say experts and government officials.
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http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/05/07/definition-on-human-trafficking-south-asia/
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