" ... Armed conflicts and humanitarian crises expose those caught in the crossfire to increased risk of being trafficked both in and beyond conflict zones and exacerbate many factors that increase individual and group vulnerability to human trafficking, such as lack of economic livelihood, discrimination and gender-based violence, and that have a disproportionate impact on groups that already lack power and status in society, including women, children, migrants, refugees and the internally displaced. ..."
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Agenda: Prostitution and sex trafficking are inextricably linked | Herald Scotland
" ... we need to speak out with one voice calling for modern slavery to be eradicated."
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Monday, April 27, 2015
Survivors of sex trafficking help fight the exploitation - The Sun Chronicle : Local News
"She was pimped by someone who knew her intimately, whom she trusted, and who told her that there was nothing wrong. She didn't know any better. She wasn't yet 10."
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Why Does Modern Slavery Persist? | Nick Grono
Given that modern slavery in its various forms is prohibited under international law and in almost every country, why is it so widespread and pervasive?
The reason is that modern slavery thrives when three factors intersect. These are:
1. The demand for extremely cheap labour
2. Individual vulnerability and marginalization
3. Weak rule of law.
READ THE DISCUSSION HERE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-grono/why-does-modern-slavery-p_b_6960174.html?
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Recognize the potential victims of human trafficking
Source: KevinMD.com
By: Dr. Alberto Hazan
Given the prevalence of human trafficking, there is no doubt that we come across victims of sexual exploitation or forced labor in our everyday practice. Emergency physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and nurses are in a prime position to identify victims of human trafficking. According to the Family Violence Prevention Fund, 28% of trafficking survivors had contact with a health care provider, but the abuse wasn’t recognized.
Read Alberto Hazan's article here:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/08/recognize-potential-victims-human-trafficking.html
By: Dr. Alberto Hazan
Given the prevalence of human trafficking, there is no doubt that we come across victims of sexual exploitation or forced labor in our everyday practice. Emergency physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and nurses are in a prime position to identify victims of human trafficking. According to the Family Violence Prevention Fund, 28% of trafficking survivors had contact with a health care provider, but the abuse wasn’t recognized.
Read Alberto Hazan's article here:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/08/recognize-potential-victims-human-trafficking.html
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Sexual slavery rife in Democratic Republic of the Congo, says MSF | Global development | theguardian.com
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
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 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).
Read here:
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).
Read here:
http://www.socialjusticesolutions.org/2014/07/14/invisible-victums-sexual-exploitation-trafficking-women-mexico/
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.
Continue here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/human-trafficking-why-aboriginal-women-are-targeted-1.2589265
Thursday, May 29, 2014
A Desperate Mother’s Search Leads to a Fight Against Sex Trafficking - NYTimes.com
Source: NYTimes.com:
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SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMÁN, Argentina — HERE in the impoverished north of Argentina, sex traffickers search among the vulnerable for targets. Typically, they lure women with deceitful job offers and then traffic them to big cities, mining towns and agricultural regions, where they are forced into sex slavery.
For most women, in the past, it was the beginning of years of servitude in a grim underworld of prostitution. But these days more manage to escape, many with the help of the Fundación María de los Ángeles, a nongovernmental organization founded by Susana Trimarco, whose daughter was seized 12 years ago.
Read the full article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/world/americas/a-mothers-search-in-argentina-leads-to-a-fight-against-sex-trafficking.html
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SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMÁN, Argentina — HERE in the impoverished north of Argentina, sex traffickers search among the vulnerable for targets. Typically, they lure women with deceitful job offers and then traffic them to big cities, mining towns and agricultural regions, where they are forced into sex slavery.
For most women, in the past, it was the beginning of years of servitude in a grim underworld of prostitution. But these days more manage to escape, many with the help of the Fundación María de los Ángeles, a nongovernmental organization founded by Susana Trimarco, whose daughter was seized 12 years ago.
Read the full article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/world/americas/a-mothers-search-in-argentina-leads-to-a-fight-against-sex-trafficking.html
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Friday, May 9, 2014
Real Threat in a Known Market for Children - NYTimes.com
Source: NYTimes.com
By RICK GLADSTONE
MAY 7, 2014
When the leader of the Boko Haram extremist groupthreatened to sell hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian girls “in the market” in a rambling online video posted this week, he was not necessarily making an irrational boast.
Doing just that is entirely possible in parts of Nigeria and elsewhere in the developing world, human rights investigators and researchers of child trafficking, sexual slavery and forced marriage said. However egregious it may sound, in some areas the buying and selling of women and children, particularly young girls, has long been an underlying problem.
By RICK GLADSTONE
MAY 7, 2014
When the leader of the Boko Haram extremist groupthreatened to sell hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian girls “in the market” in a rambling online video posted this week, he was not necessarily making an irrational boast.
Doing just that is entirely possible in parts of Nigeria and elsewhere in the developing world, human rights investigators and researchers of child trafficking, sexual slavery and forced marriage said. However egregious it may sound, in some areas the buying and selling of women and children, particularly young girls, has long been an underlying problem.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Where does human trafficking happen? Right in front of you
Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation
Human trafficking has many faces and forms. There’s the pimp enslaving and exploiting young girls in cities across the United States – where an estimated 100,000 girls are trafficked at present. There are the men who buy young boys in Ghana, forcing them into lives of servitude and hard labour, spending long days in flimsy boats in the Lake Volta region, hunched over their fishing lines under a scorching sun.
Continue here:
http://www.trust.org/item/20140321194210-2mur5/?source=hpeditorial
Human trafficking has many faces and forms. There’s the pimp enslaving and exploiting young girls in cities across the United States – where an estimated 100,000 girls are trafficked at present. There are the men who buy young boys in Ghana, forcing them into lives of servitude and hard labour, spending long days in flimsy boats in the Lake Volta region, hunched over their fishing lines under a scorching sun.
Continue here:
http://www.trust.org/item/20140321194210-2mur5/?source=hpeditorial
Ottawa police target human trafficking, a $26M industry - Ottawa - CBC News
Source: Ottawa - CBC News
Researcher Elise Wohlbold is studying the scope of human trafficking in Ottawa as part of the two-year long Project imPACT (PACT stands for Persons Against the Crime of Trafficking in humans). She is focused specifically on the trafficking of young women for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
Researcher Elise Wohlbold is studying the scope of human trafficking in Ottawa as part of the two-year long Project imPACT (PACT stands for Persons Against the Crime of Trafficking in humans). She is focused specifically on the trafficking of young women for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
Continue here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-police-target-human-trafficking-a-26m-industry-1.2580475
Thursday, March 20, 2014
United Nations News Centre - Child trafficking, exploitation on the rise, warns UN expert
Source: United Nations News Centre
13 March 2014 – In an increasingly interconnected world, children are more at risk that ever of being sexually exploited or sold, a United Nations independent expert warned today, calling for decisive steps at the global level to stop crimes such as child prostitution and trafficking.
13 March 2014 – In an increasingly interconnected world, children are more at risk that ever of being sexually exploited or sold, a United Nations independent expert warned today, calling for decisive steps at the global level to stop crimes such as child prostitution and trafficking.
“Millions of girls and boys worldwide are victims of sexual exploitation, even though this issue in recent years has gained increased visibility,” said Najat Maalla M’jid, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as she presented her final report to the 25th session of the Human Rights Council, which opened last week and is to wrap on 28 March.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Throwaways – Art Against Slavery | Miranda's Manual
Source: Miranda's Manual
Pictures at an exhibition that speak to the horror of sex trafficking.
http://mirandasmanual.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/art-against-slavery/
Pictures at an exhibition that speak to the horror of sex trafficking.
http://mirandasmanual.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/art-against-slavery/
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Art in the aftermath: healing the victims of trafficking and slavery | Global Development Professionals Network | Guardian Professional
Source: Global Development Professionals Network | Guardian Professional
Read Rich McEachran's discuss on art therapy as an integral part of the healing process for survivors of human trafficking.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/feb/26/art-therapy-trafficking-slavery
Read Rich McEachran's discuss on art therapy as an integral part of the healing process for survivors of human trafficking.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/feb/26/art-therapy-trafficking-slavery
Human Trafficking Outpaces Drugs, Guns As World's Fastest Growing Criminal Industry | WGBH News
Source: WGBH News
"The smuggling of human beings for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation outranks drug smuggling, and is tied with illegal arms sales, according to a United Nations study. Task forces consisting of federal immigration officials, prosecutors, local police, the FBI and non-governmental organizations are pooling resources, knowledge and experience to deal with trafficking in southern New England. They are looking both worldwide and close to home for lessons that might help in better understanding the dimensions of the problem."
Read PHILLIP MARTIN 's full article here:
http://wgbhnews.org/post/human-trafficking-outpaces-drugs-guns-worlds-fastest-growing-criminal-industry
"The smuggling of human beings for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation outranks drug smuggling, and is tied with illegal arms sales, according to a United Nations study. Task forces consisting of federal immigration officials, prosecutors, local police, the FBI and non-governmental organizations are pooling resources, knowledge and experience to deal with trafficking in southern New England. They are looking both worldwide and close to home for lessons that might help in better understanding the dimensions of the problem."
Read PHILLIP MARTIN 's full article here:
http://wgbhnews.org/post/human-trafficking-outpaces-drugs-guns-worlds-fastest-growing-criminal-industry
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Want to Fight Trafficking? Fight Homelessness | Kevin M. Ryan
Source: The Blog, Huffington Post
"If we want to fight the sexual exploitation of young people, we absolutely must fight youth homelessness. Kids who don't have a safe place to stay enter a direct pipeline to the pimps and exploiters who recognize their desperation and are waiting to prey on them."
Read more of Kevin M. Ryan 's article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-m-ryan/want-to-fight-trafficking_b_4826947.html
"If we want to fight the sexual exploitation of young people, we absolutely must fight youth homelessness. Kids who don't have a safe place to stay enter a direct pipeline to the pimps and exploiters who recognize their desperation and are waiting to prey on them."
Read more of Kevin M. Ryan 's article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-m-ryan/want-to-fight-trafficking_b_4826947.html
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