Dogs, pimp patrols guard trafficked girls in south Indian ...

""The brothels were guarded by big dogs, including Great Danes and Dobermans, making access very difficult," Soumya Mishra of the Telangana criminal investigations department."

""It took us two months to set up the operations as the brothel keepers had hired young boys to patrol the neighbourhood on bikes and tip them off on police raids.""

"Of an estimated 20 million sex workers in India, 16 million women and girls are victims of sex trafficking, according to non-governmental organisations working in the country."

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Street artists paint grim picture of child labour in London ...

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Look Beneath The Surface - English - YouTube

I located this video on YouTube, uploaded by usgovACF April 8, 2011.


Look Beneath The Surface - English - YouTube:

This informational video on human trafficking and how to identify and assist victims is part of the Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking public awareness campaign, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For more information, visit the Rescue & Restore website at http://www.rescueandrestore.org.

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World Cup 2014: On myths and reality of sex trafficking - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Source: Al Jazeera English:

Sonja Dolinsek Sonja Dolinsek is a PhD student in Contemporary History at the University of Erfurt and a blogger and human rights activist focusing in particular on the rights of migrants, sex workers and trafficked persons.

Three related topics have been receiving particular attention in the past weeks: human trafficking, child sexual exploitation and sex work. All three are supposed to increase during the upcoming weeks. But does research and the experience of other mega sport events actually substantiate the claims of an increase in trafficking and sex work? And what other issues should we be looking at from a human rights perspective?

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Indian anti-trafficking operation one of biggest in year - police | Reuters

Source: Reuter


Anti-trafficking and railroad police and child rights groups, arrested 23 alleged traffickers and rescued 63 children between ages 7 and 17 at the Old Delhi railway station ... 

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/22/india-trafficking-idINKBN0E21L920140522

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US laws to stop jailing child sex-trafficking victims expand but funding to help victims falls short

Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation

Author: Stella Dawson

WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)--Over the past five years, 12 states in America have passed laws to stop treating young girls and boys arrested for prostitution as criminals but as victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, a shift that is starting to bring the United States into line with human rights’ norms in Europe.


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Rights activists say Vietnamese trafficking victims forced to grow marijuana in Europe

Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation


 Author: Rachel Browne


 TORONTO
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Vietnamese grandmother doing time
 in an Irish prison is the face of a recent trend in human trafficking, 
human rights activists say.


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Authorities cannot go it alone in human trafficking fight: MP - Channel NewsAsia

Source: Channel NewsAsia


SINGAPORE: The authorities cannot go it alone in the fight against human trafficking.


MP Christopher de Souza, who plans to introduce a private member's Bill in Parliament on the Prevention of Human Trafficking, said he and a taskforce looking into this issue are happy to work alongside civil society and members of the public.


Singapore is one of many countries that have become a convenient point of transit and a destination for human trafficking.


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 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/authorities-cannot-go-it/1058970.html

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Is jailing victims of sex trafficking constitutional? | HeraldTribune.com

Source: HeraldTribune.com


 By J. David McSwane


SARASOTA - Severely traumatized child sex-trafficking victims
could be confined in secure safe houses, or lockups, for up to 10 months
under bills being discussed by Florida lawmakers.


And that proviso means that two bills aimed at providing services for
sex trafficking victims could fail even before reaching the governor's
desk.


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Inside the Brothels - NYTimes.com

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Seven unforgettable stories in the battle against sex trafficking, collected over two decades of my reporting.  —Nicholas Kristof

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UNH forensic scientist targets worldwide sex trafficking through DNA

Source: New Haven Register News

NEW HAVEN >> Victims of human trafficking are often stripped of their passports, identification, and ultimately, their identities.

DNA is the one thing that remains with a victim, and for that reason and others, it can be a powerful tool in combatting human trafficking, according to forensic scientist Timothy Palmbach.

Read the story By Rachel Chinapen, New Haven Register:

http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140322/unh-forensic-scientist-targets-worldwide-sex-trafficking-through-dna

Sex-trafficking cases hard to crack in Wisconsin

Source: USA Today

WAUSAU, Wis. — On an October day in 2010, a 22-year-old woman strolled along National Avenue in Milwaukee, headed to a friend's home to spend the night.

An SUV pulled up alongside her. The door opened, and a stocky, bearded man jumped from the driver's seat, grabbed her by the jacket and threw her into the back of the vehicle. Frantic, she tried to call her friend for help, but the call never went through.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/26/wisconsin-sex-trafficking/6917421/

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Targeting the Johns in Sex Trade - NYTimes.com

Source: NYTimes.com

Police increasingly recognize that the simplest way to reduce the scale of human trafficking is to arrest men who buy sex. That isn’t prudishness or sanctimony but a strategy to dampen demand.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/opinion/kristof-targeting-the-johns-in-sex-trade.html?_r=0

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Silent slaves: Stories of human trafficking in India | Women Under Siege Project

Source:  Women Under Siege Project, Women's Media Center

A report by By Priyali Sur/Guest Blogger

Selling humans

In the western part of India’s capital city, New Delhi, more than 5,000 domestic worker placement agencies operate out of a nondescript neighborhood called Shakurpur Basti. For years, the agencies have flourished by indulging in the business of trafficking minor girls and selling them as domestic slaves in the cities. To expose this racket of trafficking and to uncover their modus operandi, we waited for days with a hidden camera, posing as a family interested in employing a girl.

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http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/silent-slaves-stories-of-human-trafficking-in-india

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Women and Girls, A Commodity: Human Trafficking in Nepal | The Diplomat

Source: The Diplomat

Sex trafficking is a growing problem in Nepal.The Diplomat’s Kiran Nazish reports from Kathmandu.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/women-and-girls-a-commodity-human-trafficking-in-nepal/

Human trafficking: The EU's dirty secret | Globalization | DW.DE | 11.02.2014

Source:  DW.DE 

"We often think that the victims of human trafficking are from somewhere far away, but the majority are EU citizens," says Myria Vassiliadou, the EU's Anti-Trafficking Coordinator. "They are bought and sold inside the EU by criminal networks. The clients that use these services are often EU citizens."

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Courts Take A Kinder Look At Victims Of Child Sex Trafficking : NPR

Source: NPR

Amy Farrell is an expert who studies sex trafficking laws. She tells NPR's Arun Rath some states are trying to fix the problem through what are called safe harbor laws.

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http://www.npr.org/2014/03/01/284487140/courts-take-a-kinder-look-at-victims-of-child-sex-trafficking

The Role of Sex Trafficking in H.I.V. - NYTimes.com

Source:  NYTimes.com

In the quest to end AIDS, the role of sex trafficking should not be ignored by the public health community – but until recently, it largely was. In India and Nepal, where much of the existing research has been conducted, young women are frequently lured away from their homes by acquaintances, distant relatives and strangers under the pretense of employment or marriage, and then are sold to a brothel owner.

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 http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/28/how-will-aids-be-eradicated/the-role-of-sex-trafficking-in-hiv

Viewpoints: Human trafficking hotlines save lives - Viewpoints - The Sacramento Bee

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By Claire Lipschultz
Special to The Bee

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/25/6099737/viewpoints-human-trafficking-hotlines.html#storylink=cpy

I am still haunted by the image of a very young woman I saw several years ago. She is dressed in baggy sweats, her bedroom slippers flapping, her loose ponytail on top of her head, askew.

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How Not to Report on Sex Trafficking

 Source: RH Reality Check

by Soraya Chemaly

January 21, 2014 - 4:28 pm

Last month, CNN published a story on sex trafficking that made a common—and dangerous—mistake: blaming the victims of poverty for the circumstances in which they find themselves

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