How can I identify and assist victims of human trafficking accessing domestic...
Human trafficking is defined by the United Nations as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons through use of force, coercion, deception or other means, for the...
View ArticleCritical Steps for Healing of Domestic Human Trafficking Survivors Outlined...
Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar global industry where victims are forced or coerced into labor or commercial sex. Each year, an estimated 100,000 children and thousands more women are sold...
View ArticleIndia proposes special police units to probe crimes against women from...
“The Investigative Units on Crimes Against Women (IUCAW) would be deployed in India’s 29 states with the aim of strengthening the criminal justice system by conducting thorough probes, leading to...
View ArticlePalestinian TV to raise awareness of violence against women and girls from...
Programmes, to be broadcast across the West Bank and Gaza, will tackle often taboo subjects, such as marital rape, over the next three years. Find Out More…
View ArticleTruckers Work to Drive Out Human Trafficking from WLTX 19, 04/30/2015
Human trafficking is a big business across the country. Numerous agencies and non-profits are attacking the problem by trying to help victims, but one company is traveling across the Southeast,...
View ArticleDowntown March Puts Focus on Human Trafficking from The Columbus Dispatch,...
Several hundred demonstrators marched from City Hall to the Statehouse yesterday to publicize the issue of human trafficking and demand an end to it. Trafficking is modern-day slavery, forcing most...
View ArticleNorth Korea turning to human trafficking for foreign currency from Capitol...
To generate new income, the North Korean government has engaged in state-sponsored trafficking of its citizens, sending them to work as forced laborers in other countries and confiscating all or most...
View ArticleTeam Uses Big Data To Fight Human Trafficking from Futurity, 05/18/2015
A new tool takes an advantage of the internet for human trafficking—its sheer size—and turns it against criminals. It can be easy for digital criminals to hide in plain sight—posting escort ads for...
View ArticleAgenda 2030: Violence against women from GBN Ghana Business News, 06/10/2015
Key Messages • All regions have unacceptably high rates of violence against women, with recent global estimates showing that 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking Victims Caught in Cycle of Deceit, Abuse from Fay Observer,...
For days, a 14-year-old girl walked around a Fayetteville motel on Skibo Road wearing nothing but a tight shirt and shorts that barely covered her bottom. She didn’t have shoes or any personal...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Victims Can Apply for Address Confidentiality, from the...
Many victims of domestic violence have been forced to move more than once after their abuser finds out where they live, but a new program in Iowa now promises to help them keep their addresses...
View ArticleScottish Parliament passes new laws to tackle human trafficking from the...
New laws to tackle human trafficking and better protect its victims have been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill strengthens existing criminal law against...
View ArticleIndiana’s attorney general headed to Mexico to tackle human trafficking from...
Attorney General Greg Zoeller is headed to Mexico to tackle human trafficking and the drug cartel. Both issues are having a direct impact on the Hoosier State. From an increased amount of drugs on...
View ArticleRescued girls in human trafficking bust were 12-17 years old from Fox 2,...
Over a five-day period the operation was planned for three months, called “Operation Cross Country,” rescuing 149 sexually exploited children in 135 cities. About 150 suspected pimps are now behind...
View ArticleHuman traffickers are preying on refugees across Europe and forcing them into...
Young refugees and migrants arriving in Europe are being targeted by child sex trafficking gangs, an EU police chief has said. With hundreds of thousands fleeing their homelands for the EU, many minors...
View ArticleHotels to receive training on human trafficking from The Times, 12/1/2015
A local coalition working to eradicate human trafficking intends to educate local hotels about what to look for and do if trafficking takes places on their premises. FREE: The Coalition To End Human...
View ArticleBaby selling is part of the human trafficking issue from 13 WMAZ, 12/09/2015
In the Forsyth County case, authorities Elaine Williams, 47, posted an ad on Craigslist saying she would “provide a loving home for unwanted newborns,” and asked for a birth certificate and health...
View ArticleGUATEMALA – RAISE OF MINIMUM AGE FOR MARRIAGE OF GIRLS, AND BOYS, TO AGE 18...
Guatemala’s Congress just voted to raise the country’s minimum legal age for marriage to 18! This is big, exciting, news. Not just for girls in Guatemala, but for all the girls forced into child...
View ArticleFears rise over human trafficking in Sweden from The Local se, 12/23/2015
A total of 98 cases of suspected human trafficking have been brought to the southern regional police division’s attention in 2015 – up by 700 percent on the year before when 14 incidents were reported....
View ArticleJapan and South Korea Settle Dispute Over Wartime ‘Comfort Women’ from the...
More than 70 years after the end of World War II, South Korea and Japan reached a landmark agreement on Monday to resolve their dispute over Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for...
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