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Mexican marines have rescued 103 people, including three newborns and a pregnant 12-year-old girl, who were held captive by human traffickers at a banana plantation in Mexico, officials said.
Eight suspects have been arrested and will be charged...
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Ayi was fifteen when her parents sold her. She was sent to the Ghanaian capital of Accra, where her tasks included carrying heavy loads for market women. After a year...
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Félix survived his ordeal at the hands of the Zeta cartel, one of Mexico’s most ruthless drugs gangs. But he knows of many fellow migrants who suffered the same...
made popular Sep 6 2010
Police have said a number of “potential victims of human trafficking” have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast.
The raids were part of a...
made popular Sep 4 2010
An albino girl from Swaziland has been shot dead and then beheaded for the sake of witchcraft, according to reports.
Banele Nxumalo, 11, was on her way home with...
made popular Aug 24 2010
Police in Tanzania say they have arrested a Kenyan national who was attempting to sell an albino man.
The arrest was made in a sting operation as police pretended to...
made popular Aug 19 2010
The Ukrainian city of Odessa is best known throughout Europe for its sun-drenched beaches and high-end spas. Yet according to a new report, the city’s...
made popular Jul 28 2010
he bedraggled immigrants were picking their way through the boulders and scrub when a group of heavily armed men descended on them short of the California-Mexico...
made popular Jul 26 2010
Nigeria’s anti-human trafficking agency says it lacks enough evidence to criminally charge a senator who allegedly took a child bride.
In a statement Monday, the...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Over the past five years, the Oulu Refugee Reception Centre has worked with at least 14 children who have fallen victim to human traffickers. Authorities believe the...
made popular Jun 15 2010
The young woman selling her body at the street corner could be your daughter, your sister, or your wife. Yet, by and large, society chooses to ignore her pain, her...
made popular Jun 3 2010
A founder of the Irish Republic, Eamon de Valera, famously idealized Ireland 70 years ago as an innocent land of saints and scholars, whose villages were joyous with...
made popular May 29 2010
The expected arrival of 350,000 football fans in South Africa for the World Cup in June has provoked fears of increased levels of human trafficking. A new study...
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The Finnish Border Guard says it prevented 3,200 attempts of illegal immigration last year. Nearly every attempt originated in Russia.
Immigration officials say that...
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Federal police in central Mexico have captured a man wanted by the FBI for allegedly trafficking women and minors for prostitution in the United States.
made popular Mar 2 2010
If refugees who are persevering in the most miserable conditions cannot come to Finland on the official route as quota refugees based on a contract between Finland and...
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Elements of the Judicial Police sealed the premises of the Palace Hotel, located in Mexico City after the raid in which several women and teens were being held under...
made popular Jan 20 2010
Like a farm animal 20-year-old Azizan, divorced mother-of-2, was auctioned off by her brother (with whom she was living) to a 50-year-old man, Bilawal Bhutto. He...
made popular Dec 21 2009
Pimps sold a young woman as a sex slave in broad daylight on Britain’s busiest shopping street.
A brothel owner paid just £3,000 for the Lithuanian victim, a woman...
made popular Dec 8 2009
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Incredible India: A land of Broken Laws, Religion hypocrisy, Gutter politics and Bigger contradiction. Our beaurocracy is one of the worst in world so no wonder when we...
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Mahad Abdullahi Hassan had never heard of Nepal before the day he landed there. When the 28-year-old Somali boarded a flight from Dubai to Kathmandu on May 23, 2007, he...
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wo Indonesian fishermen were jailed for five years Wednesday for smuggling a boat full of Afghan refugees which exploded, killing five, after it was stopped by...
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A group of kidnappers were arrested in Kabul. The group had reportedly abducted a sixteen year old girl from the Northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
The spokesman for the...
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A man from the West African nation Togo has admitted his role in the smuggling of dozens of girls and women who were forced to work at hair braiding salons in New...
made popular Aug 27 2009
So Saudi Arabia has decided that even it has limits tolerance when its comes to the debasement of women. The illiterate King has officially outlawed the trafficking of...
made popular Jul 20 2009
It was only after her trafficker sealed her mouth with electrical tape, drugged her and threatened to kill her family that the childlike woman, now 27, says she...
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Panama has taken significant steps to combat human trafficking, but more needs to be done to eradicate that problem from the country, said the 2009 US State Department...
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The State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report also says trafficking has increased in Africa and slaps six African nations on a blacklist of...
made popular Jun 17 2009
Women trafficking in Pakistan is the manifestation of poverty, agreed the speakers of the seminar Women Trafficking – causes, remedies, and the role of media, held in...
made popular May 29 2009
The fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is mostly finished.
Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling says that 601 miles of the project had been...
made popular Jan 28 2009
Slavery exists even today; i know that that sounds like an inflammatory statement but it is true. It is just not talked about in any kind of real, life changing way. ...
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Import/Export is a bizarre, horrifying, challenging work, often brilliant and spectacular, often troubling and indeed objectionable.
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Who Cares About Girls zooms in on two sisters who have been rescued from middle-class homes where they were working as maids. The crew follows the girls as they get...
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With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. That is one of the findings of Benjamin Skinner while researching his book, “A Crime So Monstrous:...
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“13-year-old Mira of Nepal was offered a job as a domestic worker in Bombay, India. She arrived at a brothel on Bombay’s Falkland Road, where tens of thousands...
made popular Mar 20 2008
A total of 34 people, mostly from Vietnam, went on trial in southern Sweden on Tuesday accused of trafficking people from Vietnam to Sweden, judicial sources said.
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# Hungary will allow prostitutes to give receipts to customers and become part of the legal economy by paying taxes and making social security contributions, bringing...
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Slavery is a word that immediately invokes very specific images in our minds. When it is mentioned we tend to think of people, almost always black people; abused, bound...
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