Friday, October 31, 2014

Exposing a Disgrace: Uzbek Elite Keep Profiting from Forced Labor | Open Society Foundations (OSF)


Every year, the government of Uzbekistan forcibly mobilizes more than a million of its own citizens to pick cotton. Under international pressure, the authorities in Tashkent have recently moved away from forcing young children to pick cotton. But the system still depends on exporting cotton picked by adults who are essentially government slaves. 

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Saturday, October 25, 2014

BBC News - 'Modern day slavery' farmer David Doran jailed for four years

A horse farmer who forced a "terrified" vulnerable man to work unpaid for 13 years in "modern day slavery" has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
David Daniel Doran, 42, pleaded guilty midway through his trial to making Darrell Simester, from Worcestershire, perform forced or compulsory labour.
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Friday, October 24, 2014

New data offers an inside look at labor trafficking in the U.S. - The Washington Post

Many foreign-born victims of labor trafficking actually came to the United States legally, according to a study released Tuesday that provides an in-depth look into forced labor.
The study from Urban Institute and Northeastern University draws upon a trove of data, including closed records of 122 victims, as well as interviews with people who had been forced into work, along with police and advocates.
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Special Report: Traffickers use abductions, prison ships to feed Asian slave trade | Reuters


"Testimonies from Bangladeshi and Rohingya survivors provide evidence of a shift in tactics in one of Asia’s busiest human-trafficking routes. In the past, evidence showed most people boarded smuggling boats voluntarily. Now people are being abducted or tricked and then taken to larger ships anchored in international waters just outside Bangladesh’s maritime boundary."

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JAMA Network | JAMA Pediatrics | Integrating Curricula on Human Trafficking Into Medical Education and Residency Training

JAMA Network | JAMA Pediatrics | Integrating Curricula on Human Trafficking Into Medical Education and Residency Training:

By Aimee M. Grace, MD, MPH; Roy Ahn, MHP, ScD; Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, MD, MPH

Health care professionals are more likely than other professionals to interact with trafficking victims while they are enslaved. The authors call for "medical schools, residency programs, health professional organizations and societies, and national regulatory bodies to ensure the human trafficking education becomes part of medical school instruction and residency training." This, as well as encouraging research are examples of ways in which health care professionals can respond to human trafficking.

Full article may be available from Dr. Grace (agrace@stanfordalumi.org).


Tuesday, October 21, 2014

LexisNexis and STOP THE TRAFFIK launch a new report looking at human trafficking within the cotton industry | LexisNexis Business Information Solutions


LONDON, 01 OCTOBER 2014 – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional (www.lexisnexis.com), a leading global provider of content and technology solutions, and STOP THE TRAFFIK a leading Non-Governmental Organisation dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking, announce the publication of their joint report titled ‘Dressed to Kill’.
Dressed to KillForced labour is unfortunately a very big part of human trafficking. To raise awareness for both consumers and organisations, this report by LexisNexis® and STOP THE TRAFFIK is designed to help the cotton industry – as well as the broader public - understand what is happening today and offers guidance on how to take actions to eliminate or reduce the risk.

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Friday, October 17, 2014

Reports | Canadianwomen.org

http://www.canadianwomen.org/reports/trafficking


Reports from the Canadian Women's Foundation:


From Heartbreaking to Groundbreaking
This report features stories from survivors, experts and service providers, and outlines the Canadian Women’s Foundation’s 5-year strategy to end sex trafficking in Canada

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View the interactive report here

"No More" Ending Sex Trafficking in Canada – Report of the National Task Force on Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada 
This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of theCanadian Women's Foundation’s National Task Force on Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada.
Report from the National Experiential Women's Roundtable
This report summarizes the discussions at the National Experiential Women’s Roundtable, hosted on December 5th and 6th, 2013 by the Canadian Women’s Foundation Task Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada.  
Report from the National Roundtable on Service Delivery for Trafficked Women and Girls in Canada
This report summarizes the discussion of the September 18, 2013 National Roundtable for Service Providers hosted by the Canadian Women’s Foundation’sTask Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada.  
                                           Download the PDF here
Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Aboriginal Women and Girls - Literature Review and Key Informant Interviews
This report, prepared by the Native Women’s Association of Canada, provides a comprehensive assessment on the state of human trafficking for sexual exploitation of Aboriginal women and girls in Canada
 An Assessment of Sex Trafficking in Canada
Prepared by Nicole A. Barrett, Director, Global Justice Associates
This report, summarizes the prevalence of sex trafficking in Canada in 2013, examines the profile of victims and techniques of traffickers, and explores the demand to purchase sex in Canada, the role of the internet in sex trafficking, and the social and economic costs of sex trafficking.
Laws to Combat Sex Trafficking: An Overview of International, National, Provincial and Municipal Laws and their Enforcement
Prepared by Nicole A. Barrett, Director, Global Justice Associates
Margaret J. Shaw, Director, Crime and Social Policy Consulting
This report examines current legislation, regulations and law enforcement issues relating to human trafficking for sexual exploitation at four levels: the international, national, state/provincial, and municipal.
                                      Download PDF here

South Florida man traveled to Colombia for sex with underage girls, feds say - Sun Sentinel


Federal agents have arrested a South Florida man they said made several trips to South America to have sex and make child pornography videos with underage girls.

Dennis DeJesus, 45, of North Lauderdale, was arrested at his home Saturday on child "sex tourism" allegations. He was caught in a major international undercover investigation in Colombia and the U.S. that resulted in the weekend arrests of 11 Colombians on child sex-trafficking charges.

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Florida teacher in Belize child-sex sting faces life - Orlando Sentinel


TAMPA — Trying to persuade a 13-year-old girl in Belize to have sex with him, Pasco County middle school teacher David Wendel Thompson used a tactic officials say is common among adults wanting to exploit impoverished children.

"But u need help," he said in an online conversation last December. I want u to have a better life."


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Migrants kidnapped in Bangladesh and trafficked to Thailand | Free Malaysia Today

PHANG NGA: People-smugglers kidnapped dozens of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh after duping them with fake job offers, and trafficked them to a rubber plantation in southern Thailand, officials said Sunday.


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U.S., Colombian authorities break up sex-trafficking ring with underage boys and girls | Fox News Latino



In a joint operation between the United States and Colombia, in recent days authorities broke up a major sex-trafficking ring that used drugs to force underage boys and girls into prostitution.

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Man accused of luring teen for sex in Davie - Sun Sentinel


A 24-year-old man who lured a 13-year-old girl to Davie for sex is behind bars in Broward, authorities said.

Jonathan Sabahattin Wells met the 13-year-old girl online, traveled to Osceola County in Central Florida and picked her up in front of a middle school, according to Broward Judge John "Jay" Hurley, citing an arrest report in Wells' first-appearance court hearing on Wednesday.

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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Nobel Peace Prize Boosts Battle to End Child Labor | Human Rights Watch


(New York) – The awarding of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi recognizes the hard fight against child labor and should serve as a call to address this challenge around the globe, Human Rights Watch said today. Satyarthi, 60, launched a campaign against employing children in the worst forms of labor both in India and elsewhere, and has built a movement to encourage businesses to employ ethical practices without child labor.

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Behind Closed Doors, Abuse of Domestic Workers - NYTimes.com



With his latest project, photographer Steve McCurry, best known for his work in war-torn countries like Afghanistan, has documented the suffering of women from Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines who endured a myriad of abuses while working for families elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Report Cites Forced Labor in Malaysia’s Electronics Industry - NYTimes.com




Nearly one in three migrant workers in Malaysia’s thriving electronics industry toils under forced labor conditions, essentially trapped in the job, a factory monitoring group found in a report issued on Wednesday.

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Cambodia Won’t Let Somaly Mam Start New NGO



Somaly Mam may want to forget all about Newsweek’s cover story on her in May and start over in her anti-sex-trafficking activism, but Cambodia won’t let her, according to The Cambodia Daily.

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Time to get serious about forced labour in supply chains | openDemocracy

Time to get serious about forced labour in supply chains | openDemocracy:

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