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Monday, April 20, 2015

Human trafficking is an intrinsic evil and a crime against humanity - The Manila Times OnlineThe Manila Times Online

And although slavery was banned hundreds of years ago by the British parliament and done away formally after the American civil war and outlawed by the United Nations everywhere it still continues in various forms thinly disguised but ignored by corrupt politicians and controlled by criminal gangs and individuals enslaving domestic helpers, agriculture and factory workers and fishermen.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

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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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 5, 2014

Study Links Wildlife Decline to Human Trafficking, Other Social Problems - New America Media

Source: New America Media

A new report highlights a hidden social cost of fish declines: It drives up human trafficking and child labor.

The conservation policy report, led by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, appeared last week (July 25) in the journal Science.

Using data from the U.S. Department of Labor and the United Nations, researchers illustrate how decreasing fish stock fuels labor abuses.

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http://newamericamedia.org/2014/08/study-links-wildlife-decline-to-human-trafficking-other-social-problems.php

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Vietnam Trafficking Activist | June 20, 2014 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

Source: PBS

'Vietnam’s modernized cities create an appeal for the newly educated and workers from rural areas. Across the border in China, a shortage of young brides has led to a system of deceiving Vietnamese into forced labor and marriages. “Whenever you have migration, which is a positive driver and a positive force,” says Florian Forster of the United Nations Organization for Migration, “then you have also the exploitation and abuse coming with it. And that leads to trafficking.” The California-based Pacific Links Foundation offers safe haven for young women who escape human traffickers on the Vietnam-China border . “The girls that we see, they are given a choice,” says the foundation’s co-founder and board president Diep Vuong, “Do you want to marry somebody or do you want work in the brothels?”

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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2014/06/20/june-20-2014-vietnam-trafficking/23429/

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

'Forced labor can be made visible and combated' | Globalization | DW.DE | 20.05.2014

Source: DW.DE | 20.05.2014:

Even the UN labor agency was surprised by the results of its report on forced labor. The organization found that the illicit practices generate $150 billion yearly. DW spoke to the ILO's Corinne Vargha about the study.

Read the interview here:

http://www.dw.de/forced-labor-can-be-made-visible-and-combated/a-17648980

Thursday, March 6, 2014

United Nations News Centre - New UN-led anti-trafficking campaign to help raise tourists’ awareness

Source: United Nations News Centre

5 March 2014 – Encouraging travellers to help in the global fight against trafficking in illicit goods and services, three United Nations agencies have joined forces launching today a new campaign aiming to raise awareness among travellers and the tourism industry about making the right ethical choices and reducing demand for illegal products.

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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47286&Cr=trafficking&Cr1=#.Uxja_T9dWZg

Thursday, February 27, 2014

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

Friday, October 25, 2013

United Nations News Centre - Not enough done to reintegrate victims of human trafficking, UN-backed report warns

Source: United Nations News Centre

A human trafficking awareness billboard. Photo: IRIN/Mohamed Amin Jibril

14 October 2013 – Although human trafficking is recognized as modern-day slavery, many victims of the scourge in the Greater Mekong Sub-region of South-East Asia are not given adequate help for reintegration into their communities, according to a United Nations-backed report released today.

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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46263&Cr=human+trafficking&Cr1=#.Umu9ZlMlUpp

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Sex Trafficking in India - NYTimes.com

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By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Published: October 16, 2013

Although a brutal gang rape in Delhi last December grabbed national headlines and caused a public outcry, sex trafficking in India has not provoked the same degree of outrage. It is hard to know how many women and girls are trafficked in India, but the United States State Department, the United Nations and India’s Human Rights Commission have all identified India as a major hub in the international sex trade, a global phenomenon that may involve upwards of 27 million people.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/opinion/sex-trafficking-in-india.html?_r=0

Monday, September 9, 2013

Human trafficking flaring worriedly | Free Malaysia Today

Source: Free Malaysia Today

Various factors motivate human trafficking, thus a multipronged approach is fast needed

MALACCA: Human trafficking has become a fast-growing ‘epidemic’ all around the world due to the lucrative returns from doing such shameful crime especially against women and children.

According to the United States Department of State’s report on human trafficking last June, an estimated 27 million people became trafficking victims at any given time but only 40,000 victims or 0.001 percent were detected.

To find a ‘cure’ to this rising ‘epidemic’ people must be educated, government response must rise up and society must always be aware, but the United Nations’ (UN) Resident Coordinator Michelle Gyles-McDonnough said: “We have to go beyond by addressing the push and pull factors of human trafficking.”

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http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/09/08/human-trafficking-flaring-worriedly/

Friday, July 5, 2013

From Nepal, a Push to End Human Trafficking - NYTimes.com

Source: NYT

JUNE 18, 2013, 3:03 AM

By SUE-LIN WONG

Telephone interview with "Ms. Pradhan Malla, a lawyer and advocate at Nepal’s Supreme Court, this month after she received a Lotus Leadership Award from the Asia Foundation in New York for her work against human trafficking."

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/from-nepal-a-push-to-end-human-trafficking/?_r=0

Friday, June 7, 2013

The Celebritization of Human Trafficking « IntLawGrrls

http://ilg2.org/2013/06/03/the-celebritization-of-human-trafficking/

June 3, 2013

Source: IntLawGrrls

After working in human trafficking for more than fifteen years, I noticed a trend. I would show up to speak at an event or a panel, or to train US government and law enforcement and I there I would find: celebrity actors, celebrity journalists, celebrity humanitarians and the like. Initially, I was as chuffed as the next person to rub elbows with the rich and famous. But when after one particular panel, a certain celebrity suggested to me that I should work on my “elevator pitch,” I began wondering what the pros and cons were to celebrity endorsers working in a field that I cared so much about.

In the article I have written, available in a draft form here, and soon to be published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, I demonstrate how celebrities now regularly engage with human trafficking policy and practice. In asking why this is, I articulate how human trafficking is considered a “sexy” topic, not only susceptible to alluring, fetishistic and voyeuristic narratives, but also one that plays into the celebrity-as-rescuer-of-the-victim ideal that receives excessive attention from media, policymakers and the public. In articulating how the UN, legislators, the public, the press, financially interested NGO’s and celebrities themselves buy into this arrangement, I ascribe blame equally between parties interested in promoting their policy (and financial agendas), those who see hobnobbing with celebrities as a perk of their work, and those who view human rights activism as a convenient medium to further their own celebrity. I conclude by finding that while some celebrities may become knowledgeable enough to give responsible advice to law and policy makers, others engaging in anti-trafficking activism are neither knowledgeable enough nor using good judgment when interacting with those who make the laws and create anti-trafficking programs. Although we all share the blame, as celebrities have gained “in group” status in many of our lives, the responsibility must lie primarily with law and policy makers who are so slavishly devoted to using celebrity witnesses in order to satisfy their own desire to interact with celebrities that they abdicate their duties to constituents and donors by allowing celebrity activists to provide them with legal and policy advice. The willingness of legislators to ask celebrities “what would you do if you were a legislator,” is emblematic of the larger and more general problems with funding, narratives and the shallow level of discourse in current anti-trafficking initiatives.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

New Push, at Home and Abroad, to Combat Modern-Day Slavery | American Civil Liberties Union

http://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights/new-push-home-and-abroad-combat-modern-day-slavery

Source: American Civil Liberties Union

05/17/2013

By Chandra Bhatnagar, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Human Rights Program at 7:07pm

A White House task force set up to combat human trafficking held its annual meeting today, chaired by Secretary of State John Kerry. The cabinet-level group, called the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) coordinates the U.S. government's efforts to eradicate the phenomenon commonly likened to "modern-day slavery."

At the meeting, Secretary Kerry stated he had been "stunned by the stories and examples of the evil... It is nothing less than the most predatory, extraordinary modern slavery that you can conceivably imagine."

The PITF was not the only human trafficking-related event this week.

On Monday and Tuesday, the United Nations convened a high-level General Assumbly meeting on the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. The Plan of Action commits governments around the world to fully implement key anti-human trafficking treaties and to join forces to counter the multi-billion dollar industry which has trapped some 21 million men, women and children in forced labor. At the meeting, actress Mira Sorvino, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador to Combat Human Trafficking, described human trafficking as "one of the great social justice issues of our time." The United States also addressed the meeting, stating, "(t)he solution in face of this scourge is clear – joint action across nations and across UN agencies." United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that "(h)uman trafficking devastates individuals and undermines national economies," and called on governments to prevent trafficking by ratifying relevant treaties, implementing the U.N.'s Global Plan of Action against trafficking, and making contributions to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund to help victims.

The ACLU endorses these measures and encourages the U.S. to do more to address human trafficking through better monitoring and enforcement of existing anti-trafficking laws, policies and practices.

For years, the ACLU has worked with other organizations to protect the human rights of victims of labor trafficking. That work has included:

Advocating on behalf of 500 guestworkers from India who were trafficked into the U.S. through the federal government's H-2B guestworker program with dishonest assurances of becoming lawful permanent U.S. residents and subjected to squalid living conditions, fraudulent payment practices, and threats of serious harm. The workers' lawsuit, which was filed in 2008, highlights serious flaws in the current guestworker program wherein foreign low-wage temporary workers are subjected to numerous human rights violations including trafficking and forced labor. These violations take place due in part to the exploitation of visa application processes by duplicitous recruiters and employers. The lawsuit also highlights the U.S. government's failure to regulate and supervise these visa schemes appropriately to prevent abuse, and failure to vigorously enforce anti-trafficking and labor laws when violations occur.
Advocating on behalf of foreign workers, known as Third Country Nationals (TCNs), contracted to perform services for the United States overseas, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of these workers have been deceived about how much they will be paid, as well the nature and location of their job, and charged thousands of dollars in recruitment fees that effectively place them in debt bondage. Last year, President Obama issued an importantExecutive Order aimed at addressing these issues and in January this year Congress enacted legislation designed to achieve these same ends. These measures, while welcome, will only prove effective if they are properly implemented and enforced. Together with a coalition of anti-trafficking groups, the ACLU recently made recommendations to the Federal Acquisition and Regulatory (FAR) Council to ensure the laws effectiveness.
Advocating on behalf of domestic workers trafficked into the United States by foreign diplomats stationed here and subjected to forced labor and other abuses. Because of diplomatic immunity, victims are left without access to legal remedies for these abuses. Domestic workers are a uniquely vulnerable population as they do not generally enjoy the right to organize, minimum wage protections, or other fundamental workplace protections, and their race, gender, immigration status, education levels, and physical isolation in the home make them particularly susceptible to labor trafficking.

Today's PITF meeting and Monday and Tuesday's UN meetings were important reminders that despite some progress, much more must be done by governments and civil society to combat human trafficking in this country and to provide redress and other support to victims.

In the words of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, "(h)uman trafficking is a vicious chain that binds victims to criminals. We must break this chain with the force of human solidarity."

Monday, April 8, 2013

UN Tourism and Crime bodies to call on tourists to play a role in reducing illicit trafficking

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2013/April/un-tourism-and-crime-bodies-to-call-on-tourists-to-play-a-role-in-reducing-illicit-trafficking.html

Source: UNODC

Madrid, 5 April 2013 - In the presence of the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today agreed to launch a new public awareness campaign calling on tourists to help reduce demand for illicit goods and services linked to transnational organized crime.

Preparations for the campaign were set in motion during the Spring Meeting of the Chief Executive Board of the United Nations in Madrid. A Cooperation Agreement was signed between UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, and UNODC Executive Director, Yury Fedotov in the presence of United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.

The joint campaign, to be launched later this year, aims to raise awareness among international tourists about the types of illicit goods and services to which they are often exposed during their travels and which directly or indirectly fund organized crime groups. Travellers can play a key role in reducing demand for these products through ethical consumer choices. The campaign will encourage tourists to make informed decisions and help reduce demand for trafficking in persons, cultural artefacts, wildlife, fauna and flora such as ivory products, as well as counterfeit goods, and illicit drugs.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended this innovative joint initiative between the two partner UN Agencies: "The illegal trade in goods and services often funds unscrupulous people involved in human trafficking, the illicit ivory trade and other areas that cause immense suffering and destruction. Well-informed tourists can make a real difference in turning the tide against these criminal acts."

Organized criminal networks generate money wherever there is demand and travellers are often exposed to objects which are illicitly sold. With more than 1 billion tourists now crossing international borders each year, there is a growing opportunity to call on tourists to act and reduce demand for these illicit products which in many cases are providing a funding source for organized crime. The campaign drives the message that while some products may seem harmless, the demand created and their sale can, in fact, have devastating effects on the lives of innocent people, on wildlife or on cultural property. The billions of dollars generated through such trade also fund criminal groups who use this money to branch out into other illicit and unethical lines of business.

"Although the infrastructure of tourism - from accommodation establishments to transportation networks - can be misused by traffickers to victimize the vulnerable, tourism has the potential and is firmly committed to reclaim this same infrastructure and use it in the fight against trafficking" said UNWTO's Secretary-General Taleb Rifai. "Through coordinated efforts, we can ensure that awareness travels - that tourism authorities, travel companies and tourists join us on this fight" he added.

According to the Executive Director of UNODC, Yury Fedotov: "This new awareness-raising campaign will help build awareness about organized crime and the devastating effect it has on people and communities worldwide. Tourists are often exposed to the traffickers of human beings and unethical products. By making informed choices, tourists can help sever the financial arteries that fuel these forms of illicit trade".

The campaign will seek to engage the tourism industry including hotel chains, travel agencies and airlines to lend support in raising awareness among tourists and help contribute to limiting these illicit markets.

The initiative supplements UNWTO's Global Code of Ethics for Tourism. The Code calls upon tourists to behave in a responsible and respectful manner towards the visited destination, urging them not to commit any criminal acts and to refrain from all trafficking in illicit drugs, arms, antiques, protected species, products and substances that are dangerous or prohibited by national regulations.

Relevant links:
UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for Tourism
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
UNODC campaign against transnational organized crime

Friday, March 15, 2013

Kimberly Ritter stands up to child sex trafficking in US hotels - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2013/0315/Kimberly-Ritter-stands-up-to-child-sex-trafficking-in-US-hotels

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Kimberly Ritter of Nix Conference & Meeting Management will be honored by the FBI for her efforts to protect children from sex trafficking at hotels.

Nix Conference & Meeting Management

Kimberly Ritter discovered that some US hotels harbor a horrifying secret – child sex trafficking. Now she and her employer are urging the hospitality industry to confront the problem.

By Marjorie Kehe, Staff writer / March 15, 2013

ST. LOUIS

The first time someone mentioned human trafficking to Kimberly Ritter, she had only a vague idea of what it was. "Isn't that something that happens in third-world countries?" she asked

That was 2008. Today Ms. Ritter might be said to have two careers. On the one hand, she's still a meeting planner, a 20-year veteran of the travel and hospitality industry. But she now expends almost as much energy fighting child sex trafficking.

It all started with Ritter's largest client, the Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph. In her work as a senior account manager at Nix Conference & Meeting Management in St. Louis, Ritter books meeting venues for this group of Roman Catholic nuns. The sisters devote themselves to causes like opposition to the death penalty and the fight to stamp out disposable plastic drinking bottles. Ritter has come to greatly admire their stands, she says.

But the sisters took her by surprise one day when they talked about an upcoming conference and said that they wanted to stay at a hotel that took a stand against child sex trafficking.

"I have learned so much from the sisters over the years," she says. So she began educating herself on child sex trafficking. What she learned came as a shock.

Ritter discovered that, according to UNICEF, about 1.2 million children are exploited each year in the global child sex trade. The crime falls under the larger heading of human trafficking, one of the fastest-growing illegal businesses on the planet, estimated by the United Nations to have an annual value of $32 billion.

Child sex trafficking – which differs from child prostitution – is part of this and occurs when a minor is tricked into prostitution by force, fraud, or coercion.

But perhaps what was most horrifying to Ritter, as a longtime worker in the hospitality field, was to discover how often US hotels are the venues for such crimes.

"It happens everywhere," Ritter says, and "that includes five-star hotels."

What the Sisters of St. Joseph wanted Ritter to do was to find a hotel for their next conference that had signed on to the standards created by a group called ECPAT (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking) USA. The ECPAT standards ask hotels to take a stand on child sex trafficking by – among other actions – training their employees to look for signs of it and asking all their suppliers to do the same.

Spotting the telltale signs

At hotels, this crime often leaves telltale signs visible to employees. When a third party arranges for a room for a guest, or when a guest shows up without luggage and doesn't spend the night, or when a young girl is dressed inappropriately or seems disoriented or confused – any of these could be signs of child sex trafficking.

But because hotel employees are not trained to recognize the problem or encouraged to report suspicious activity, it may go overlooked.

That's where the training mandated by ECPAT could make a difference.

What Ritter discovered, however, when she began canvassing hotels, was that many were reluctant to take any kind of stand on child sex trafficking. They feared that signing an agreement such as the ECPAT standard was tantamount to acknowledging that such crimes might be taking place in their hotels. Given the extreme public revulsion to the topic, they simply wanted to keep a distance.

As a result, some employees remain remarkably ignorant. (When Ritter surveyed several hotels asking them for their policy on human trafficking, one hotel worker replied: "We maintain and point out the crosswalk in front.")

But finally, Ritter scored a big success. The Millennium Hotel in St. Louis agreed to sign the ECPAT pledge. It did so during a special ceremony in July 2011, while the Sisters of St. Joseph were holding their conference there.

Ritter was initially delighted. But the day after the signing she realized, "That's not enough." In fact, it was just the beginning.

Online photos yield important clues

Ritter's company, Nix, was founded in 1985 by Richard Nix Sr. But today its seven employees are all women. Intrigued by Ritter's campaign, the entire group – led by principals Molly Hackett and Jane Quinn – decided to throw its weight into the fight.

Today Nix continues to work to inform hotel staffs about child sex trafficking and to urge them to sign the agreement. They have also developed standards that meeting planners can sign on to as well. (A letter that individual guests can present to hotels, urging them to sign the ECPAT standards, can be found at http://ecpatusa.org/take-action/promote-the-code/).

One effective gambit for Ritter has been to find images of children available for sex online. (She says that these images are only too easy to locate.) Often these girls are photographed (faces blanked out) in hotel rooms. Ritter studies the photos and can sometimes recognize the hotel, thanks to clues like wallpaper patterns or the view from the window. She then takes the photo to the hotel's managers.

The reaction, she says, is usually one of absolute horror.

Ritter has become an active member of the Human Action Network (of which Ritter is now a vice president and on the board of directors), which works with young women who have been able to flee the sex trade.

Getting to know these young women is an eye-opener, Ritter says. The notion that most children being trafficked are runaways or come from unstable homes is inaccurate. A fair number, she says, are suburban teens from middle-class families. They have been manipulated in some way by pimps, who are extremely savvy about using a mix of drugs, attention, praise, and threats to bend the girls to their will.

Facebook and the local mall are favorite recruiting grounds. Handsome teenage boys are sometimes hired to make the initial approach.

Once coerced into "the life," it can be hard for a girl to get out, Ritter says. Pimps can be violent and will fight to protect their "assets."

That is why an educated hotel staff is so important. Ritter tells a tale she heard from a young woman who has since freed herself from the trafficking business. She had been brought to a St. Louis hotel for yet another sexual encounter when she decided to break away.

She fled the hotel room, leaving her pimp and the client behind, and ran down the hotel hallway shouting for help. She encountered a maid who spoke no English; not understanding the situation, the maid helped to return the girl to the pimp who was chasing her.

'You've got to keep doing this'

That's exactly the kind of situation in which employee training could have been crucial, Ritter says. In fact, she says, when she told this young woman about the ECPAT agreement, her response was: "You've got to keep doing this. You're going to get such a blessing."

The blessing has come already, Ritter says.

"This has been life-changing for all of us," she says of herself and her colleagues at Nix. "It has created a whole new world for us."

It also has taken the work of the Sisters of St. Joseph to a whole new level.

"Kimberly realized that as a meeting planner she has a tremendous opportunity to influence hotels," says Sister Patty Johnson, the group's executive director. "She's reaching groups that we could not."

Public recognition is now following as well. In April Ritter will fly to Washington, D.C., to attend a national ceremony at which she will receive a community leadership award from FBI Director Robert Mueller to honor her work in the fight against child sex trafficking.

"Raising awareness goes a long way to preventing sex trafficking or any crime," states Dean C. Bryant, special agent in charge of the FBI St. Louis division, in the press release announcing the event. "By challenging their industry peers to raise awareness, Ms. Ritter and Nix are creating a force multiplier that could eventually have a nationwide impact."

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