Broward College Conference Highlights Haiti's Attempts To Curb Child Slavery | WLRN

The underground restavec community is a long-held practice in Haitian culture where mostly poor rural families will send their children to live with families of better means. In exchange for hosting the child and paying for schooling, which is usually the promise, the children perform domestic work.

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Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation saves trafficked Vietnam street kids

“It’s highly rewarding because we see lives change,” he says. “The harrowing part is when it takes a long time. We know boys and girls of just 14 who are making money selling sex, after they’ve been abused. They hate themselves and think this is all they’re good for.

“Knowing that abuse is happening is the hardest part. You have to keep believing.”

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Tim Matsui – The Long Night » British Journal of Photography

Tim Matsui's The Long Night remind us that sex trafficking doesn't purely exist on the fringes of society. After winning World Press Photo's best feature documentary, Matsui talks to Guy Bolton

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Trafficking Victims Need More Than Legal Reform | Rory Lancman

For sex-trafficked victims to  "leave the life" they need massive social services as well as legal reform.

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Preventing sex trafficking of children in state custody, awaiting adoption topic of forum - News - providencejournal.com - Providence, RI

Children in foster and group homes are vulnerable to trafficking.


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Seafood caught by Myanmar slaves could be in U.S. food chain - NY Daily News

Slave-labor tainted  fish in US supply chain. Read  about AP's year-long investigation.


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‘Little Birds’: Families Sex Trafficking Own Kids | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS

Researchers found that in central Mississippi, children were trafficked by their own family.

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United Nations News Centre - Real breakthrough needed to protect children from abuse, UN rights body told

“Child victims must have access to child-sensitive justice and redress. Children must have easy access to child-friendly complaint and reporting mechanisms,” Ms. de Boer added.

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U.S. jails sex-trafficked kids in human rights abuse, groups say | Reuters

According to federal and international law, children trapped in the commercial sex trade are to be treated as victims and not criminals. Yet, many U.S. states and localities are not doing that.

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She Fights Child Sex Trafficking With Film - COLORLINES

Rebecca Dharmapalan,  a 19-year-old UC Berkeley student, fights child sex traffidking via art, specifically film. As a high school student, she created and produced “International Boulevard,” a short documentary about child-sex trafficking in Oakland. Now she is going for a feature-length sequel,

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Sri Lanka Sets Out to Protect Victims of Human Trafficking - International Organization for Migration

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Homeless teens trapped by human traffickers in New Orleans: Laura Murphy | NOLA.com

We asked 99 homeless youth about their work experiences to determine how many of them had been victims of trafficking - that is, forced laborers - whether that was in the sex trade, in the drug trade, or in other labor situations. 

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SHAHEEN STATEMENT ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING VOTE | News | Jeanne Shaheen - United States Senator for New Hampshire

Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015

SHAHEEN STATEMENT ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING VOTE | News | Jeanne Shaheen - United States Senator for New Hampshire:

March 17, 2015

(WASHINGTON, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement after human trafficking legislation did not advance in the Senate:

“Human trafficking is too important an issue to be stalled because of unrelated measures aimed at restricting women’s access to healthcare. I’m disappointed that partisan language was inserted in this bill that could lead to a dramatic and unprecedented restriction on abortion coverage in the future. We ought to remove that controversial language and act on this bill in a bipartisan fashion.” 

For context on the Shaheen statement, see, for example, http://trafficking-monitor.blogspot.com/2015/03/harry-reid-human-trafficking-bill.html

Also of interest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/18/abortion-sex-trafficking_n_6897178.html

http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/congress-latest-hostages/32023/

200 Indigenous People Rescued from Modern-Day Slavery in Mexico | News | teleSUR

Mexico is a country marred by violence and plagued by corruption and impunity; elements that create a fertile ground for exploitation of members of vulnerable social classes. Indigenous groups are among the most affected. Recent statistics show an increase of modern-day slavery cases against them; one of which was reported by the Ministry of Labor this Monday, involving 200 Tarahumaras, rescued from subhuman conditions.

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Doctors not trained to spot sex trafficking victims | Reuters

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Pressure on Senate to break impasse over human trafficking bill | NOLA.com

WASHINGTON -- Pressure mounted on the Senate this weekend to break an impasse that threatens passage of legislation designed to expand federal efforts to fight human trafficking.

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I Just Won a World Press Photo Award and a POYi, but I’m Not Celebrating — Vantage — Medium

A documentary project about social issues is worth nothing if it doesn’t improve the lives of its subjects

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Harry Reid: Human Trafficking Bill Doomed Unless GOP Removes Anti-Abortion Language

The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), would establish a fund to help victims by using fees charged to traffickers. The bill, a new version of a measure originally introduced in the previous Congress, has bipartisan support and unanimously passed out of the Judiciary Committee last month.

But Democrats learned this week that the bill contains Hyde Amendment language -- a recurring rider that often gets attached to other legislation, and that restricts federal funding for abortion and other health care services.

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United Nations News Centre - Malaysia: UN expert urges Government to boost efforts in helping victims of human trafficking

2 March 2015 – The Government of Malaysia must increase its efforts in addressing all forms of human trafficking while also protecting the rights of its victims, a United Nations human rights expert said today.


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Mekong Trafficking Report Uncovers Mental Health, Abuse Issues - International Organization for Migration

“Trafficking in human beings is a gross violation of human rights that often involves extreme exploitation and abuse,” said Jeff Labovitz, IOM’s Thailand Chief of Mission. “People are trafficked for various forms of exploitation, most frequently into low-skilled labour sectors and for forced labour and sexual exploitation. In these circumstances, trafficked persons are exposed to a multitude of health risks, including violence, deprivation and serious occupational hazards.”

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Acting on a tip-off, TWC2 rescues a maid trapped over two years without a day off

Late November 2014, an email came from the blogsite Tremeritus about an Indonesian domestic worker who was not allowed to leave her employer’s house for two years. The email sender said “hope you guys can take a look at this case seriously. The poor maid is said to be always hungry and begging for food from neighbour.”

Helpfully, the email gave us at Transient Workers Count Too the address – a house in a quiet district in the Thomson area.

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