IPA Photo Essay Asia Award 2013 Finalist 12: K. M. ASAD, Cost Of Slavery | Invisible Ph t grapher Asia (IPA)
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
IPA Photo Essay Asia Award 2013 Finalist 12: K. M. ASAD, Cost Of Slavery | Invisible Ph t grapher Asia (IPA)
KM Asad's reflections and painful photographs of the collapse of Rana Plaza at Savar in Bangladesh which took the lives of more than a thousand poorly paid garment workers, mostly female.
IPA Photo Essay Asia Award 2013 Finalist 12: K. M. ASAD, Cost Of Slavery | Invisible Ph t grapher Asia (IPA)
IPA Photo Essay Asia Award 2013 Finalist 12: K. M. ASAD, Cost Of Slavery | Invisible Ph t grapher Asia (IPA)
Monday, September 2, 2013
Sex Trafficking Up Close: Can a Mama Bear Save the Truck-Stop Hooker? - ICTMN.com
Source: ICTMN.com
"I was on the high road to making my escape when I saw her standing next to the road just outside the truck stop. Way too thin and dirty from sleeping rough, her long red hair incongruously combed into long carefully flowing waves over her shoulders. She looked to be about 16. I watched her as I filled up the tank of my rental car. I was headed for the airport, headed far away from talk of predator economics, sex trafficking and polluting pipelines. All I wanted was a bit of escape, but there she was. I was disgusted and cussed under my breath because I knew I’d have to stop. My inner Ojibwe mama bear had been awakened and there was no turning back."
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/01/sex-trafficking-close-can-mama-bear-save-truck-stop-hooker-151119
September 01, 2013
"I was on the high road to making my escape when I saw her standing next to the road just outside the truck stop. Way too thin and dirty from sleeping rough, her long red hair incongruously combed into long carefully flowing waves over her shoulders. She looked to be about 16. I watched her as I filled up the tank of my rental car. I was headed for the airport, headed far away from talk of predator economics, sex trafficking and polluting pipelines. All I wanted was a bit of escape, but there she was. I was disgusted and cussed under my breath because I knew I’d have to stop. My inner Ojibwe mama bear had been awakened and there was no turning back."
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/01/sex-trafficking-close-can-mama-bear-save-truck-stop-hooker-151119
CNS STORY: Pope asks pontifical academies to help fight human trafficking
SOURCE: CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1303624.htm
Aug-23-2013
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- At the request of Pope Francis, scholars and researchers belonging to two pontifical academies and representatives of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations will begin focusing on the phenomenon of human trafficking and ways to fight it.
A working group from the pontifical academies of Sciences and Social Sciences and the federation will meet at the Vatican Nov. 2-3 for a preparatory workshop examining the size of the problem, its causes and steps that can be taken to prevent trafficking and to help victims, said Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the academies.
No one can deny that "the trade in human persons constitutes a terrible crime against human dignity and is a serious violation of human rights," which is fueling increasingly complex international criminal networks, the bishop told Vatican Radio Aug. 22.
In a May speech, Pope Francis said human trafficking is "a despicable activity, a disgrace for our societies, which describe themselves as civilized." Refugees, displaced and stateless people are particularly vulnerable to "the plague of human trafficking, which increasingly involves children subjected to the worst forms of exploitation and even recruitment into armed conflicts," the pope said.
Bishop Sanchez said the international group of physicians, scientists, lawyers, economists and other scholars participating in the meeting will look at ways their disciplines can help the victims of trafficking and fight the phenomenon.
For instance, he said, scientists can start a DNA registry of children whose parents have reported them missing, and it can be used for comparisons when children are rescued from traffickers.
The social scientists, he said, will look at trafficking as one of the "pressing economic, social and political problems associated with the process of globalization."
The International Labor Organization has estimated that 20.9 million people are victims of forced labor globally; that number includes victims of human trafficking, Bishop Sanchez said. An estimated 2 million people -- mostly girls -- are trafficked each year for the sex trade.
"Some observers believe that within a few years human trafficking will surpass drug trafficking and weapons trafficking to become the most lucrative criminal activity in the world," the bishop said.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1303624.htm
Aug-23-2013
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- At the request of Pope Francis, scholars and researchers belonging to two pontifical academies and representatives of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations will begin focusing on the phenomenon of human trafficking and ways to fight it.
A working group from the pontifical academies of Sciences and Social Sciences and the federation will meet at the Vatican Nov. 2-3 for a preparatory workshop examining the size of the problem, its causes and steps that can be taken to prevent trafficking and to help victims, said Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the academies.
No one can deny that "the trade in human persons constitutes a terrible crime against human dignity and is a serious violation of human rights," which is fueling increasingly complex international criminal networks, the bishop told Vatican Radio Aug. 22.
In a May speech, Pope Francis said human trafficking is "a despicable activity, a disgrace for our societies, which describe themselves as civilized." Refugees, displaced and stateless people are particularly vulnerable to "the plague of human trafficking, which increasingly involves children subjected to the worst forms of exploitation and even recruitment into armed conflicts," the pope said.
Bishop Sanchez said the international group of physicians, scientists, lawyers, economists and other scholars participating in the meeting will look at ways their disciplines can help the victims of trafficking and fight the phenomenon.
For instance, he said, scientists can start a DNA registry of children whose parents have reported them missing, and it can be used for comparisons when children are rescued from traffickers.
The social scientists, he said, will look at trafficking as one of the "pressing economic, social and political problems associated with the process of globalization."
The International Labor Organization has estimated that 20.9 million people are victims of forced labor globally; that number includes victims of human trafficking, Bishop Sanchez said. An estimated 2 million people -- mostly girls -- are trafficked each year for the sex trade.
"Some observers believe that within a few years human trafficking will surpass drug trafficking and weapons trafficking to become the most lucrative criminal activity in the world," the bishop said.
Human traffickers still active in Mizoram: Study : Nagaland Post
Source: Nagaland Post
http://www.nagalandpost.com/ChannelNews/Regional/RegionalNews.aspx?news=TkVXUzEwMDA0Mzk3Mg%3D%3D-XO78N07p9Vc%3D
25 Aug. 2013
http://www.nagalandpost.com/ChannelNews/Regional/RegionalNews.aspx?news=TkVXUzEwMDA0Mzk3Mg%3D%3D-XO78N07p9Vc%3D
25 Aug. 2013
Despite several steps taken by the Mizoram government, human
trafficking is very much active in the state, revealed a latest study
conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Human traffickers, the report says, employ agents in rural areas of
Mizoram to lure Myanmarese nationals living near the border into India
through the porous boundary.
The UNODC report, while praising the efforts of the Mizoram
government on the issue of human trafficking, said the traffickers have
accomplices in villages and lured in rural folks from Myanmar by
promising them lucrative jobs outside the state.
The traffickers also have agents inside Myanmar, especially those
near the Mizoram border, to help people cross the 404-km-long porous
international border, the report said.
The report added that many Myanmarese nationals trafficked via
Mizoram are either forced to work as unpaid domestic helps or sex
workers.
Mizoram is the first state in the northeast to formulate a ‘Victims
of Crime Compensation Scheme’, the UNODC report said. It added that the
scheme was formulated in 2011 to ensure that the victims of human
trafficking were rehabilitated.
The burden of financial assistance for the victims of human trafficking is shared by the Centre and the state government.
The government also constituted anti-human trafficking units, which
organize workshops and trainings to create awareness on the issue. The
officials of these units have rescued several victims of human
trafficking from different places including Goa, Mumbai, Haryana and
Delhi.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Nightmare island where traffickers imprison Burma's Rohingya - Channel 4 News
Source: Channel 4 News
Nightmare island where traffickers imprison Burma's Rohingya
John Sparks
Asia Correspondent
"Beaten, imprisoned and sold into slavery -
Channel 4 News reveals the fate of Burma's Muslim Rohingya refugees, who
flee conflict only to end up in the clutches of brutal human
traffickers."
Continue here:
Best Industrial Company Ltd., Myanmar Garment Factory, Protects Workers From Human Trafficking
By Iris C. Gonzales, Women's eNews
"Human trafficking happens when there are no decent jobs. We need to create decent jobs for them here in the country," said Khine Khine Nwe, managing director of Best Industrial Company Ltd., which produces jeans, shirts and other apparel for companies in Japan, and in the past to Europe and the United States."
Continue to read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/human-trafficking-myanmar_n_3836346.html
"Human trafficking happens when there are no decent jobs. We need to create decent jobs for them here in the country," said Khine Khine Nwe, managing director of Best Industrial Company Ltd., which produces jeans, shirts and other apparel for companies in Japan, and in the past to Europe and the United States."
Continue to read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/human-trafficking-myanmar_n_3836346.html
Source: Times Picture of the Week, August 23-August 30, 2013
Haunting photograph of a 7-year-old child labourer.
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/08/30/pictures-of-the-week-august-23-august-30/#32
Haunting photograph of a 7-year-old child labourer.
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/08/30/pictures-of-the-week-august-23-august-30/#32
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