End Trafficking

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How secret army of slave labourers in Britain build beds sold at John Lewis: Brutalised into working for £10 a week, sleeping 45 to a house - the truth about modern slavery in the UK

• <b>Hope for Justice charity was tipped off about suspected trafficking ring</b>• <b><br>It was centred on the Kozee Sleep bed-making firm in Dewsbury, Yorkshire</b>• <b><br>They</b> …

The list of slave-labor imports you use might surprise you

That new soccer ball you just bought your child? If it came from China, it could have been made by workers who work up to 21 hours a day.<p>That trendy …

Slavery

The victims of the 21st-century slave trade

In Thailand thousands of "sea slaves," held captive in shoddy fishing vessels, trawl for cheap forage fish used in canned pet food. In Pakistan, …

Slavery

Sex slaves in SoCal: LAPD shifts approach to help victims

"They could be your daughter and you may not even know it," Dr. Stephany Powell stated as she described victims of human trafficking.<p>Powell first got …

Crime

Indian police say bust child trafficking racket to United States

Syndicate sent at least 25 children to the United States using false documents before special investigative team made arrests<p>By Anuradha …

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A safe environment for child trafficking survivors - UNICEF Connect

It’s 10 o’clock in the morning, and the children are busy learning in the outdoor classrooms set up at the reception centre run by the NGO Goutte …

Phnom Penh

Cops Smash $1.1M International Child-Trafficking Network: Europol

A criminal network that generated $1.1 million by trafficking Romanian children across Europe and forcing them to pickpocket at tourist hot-spots in Paris has been dismantled, officials said Friday.<p>Cops in France and Romania arrested 18 people, seized 25,000 euros (around $28,000), and recovered …

Crime

Slaves for Sex: Inside the Dark World of Human Trafficking

Women are getting sold for sex at hotels, truck stops and other discreet places. With websites and online forums, detectives said it's easier for …

Slavery

When Sex Trafficking Goes Unnoticed in America

Many cases go unreported, making it a difficult crime for law enforcement personnel to spot.<p>How do you identify sex-trafficking victims when such cases go largely undetected or unreported?*<p>It’s an issue with which law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. continually struggle. Detective Bill Woolf with …

The Truth About Child Trafficking in Senegal

In July 2009, I was in Guinea-Bissau covering the presidential elections after the murder of president Nino Vieira when I first heard stories about …

West Africa

What's Being Done to Stop Child Trafficking in Utah?

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 Utah) - Imagine growing up thinking sex is a way of life. That's what human trafficking of children can cause victims to …

Slavery

The town where boys are 'groomed to become pimps'

<b>(CNN) —</b> Rosa was only 17 years old when she was approached in her small hometown in Mexico by a man claiming to sell clothing. Instead, he began courting her and she quickly fell in love with him.<p>Showered with affection, Rosa went with the man to another town in Mexico called Tenancingo, where he …

Slavery

Revealed: Thailand's most senior human trafficking investigator to seek political asylum in Australia

Major General Paween Pongsirin says his investigations into human trafficking implicated senior figures in police and military and he now fears for his life<p>Thailand’s most senior police investigator into human trafficking is seeking political asylum in Australia, saying he fears for his life …

Asia

Can a French Friar End the 21st-Century Slave Trade?

It’s 2015, and more than 20 million people are still held in some form of slavery all over the world. Traveling deep into the Amazon, William Langewiesche discovers why an unspeakable degradation is proving so hard to combat—and finds a man of God who has dedicated his life to the fight.<p><b>I. Captivity</b><p>…

Slavery

Stolen Dreams: The Fight to End Child Marriage

Update 7/12: Signs of Change as Gambia, Tanzania Ban Child Marriage<p>The small West African country of Gambia, as well as Tanzania in East Africa, have …

Yahya Jammeh

Hub of human trafficking: underground sex trade thrives in Milwaukee

An FBI raid last month pushed Milwaukee up in the trafficking rankings, and one expert says the city is home to a booming underground sex trade economy<p>Milwaukee has become “the Harvard of pimp school” and Wisconsin is a hub of human trafficking, an expert has said in the wake of an FBI sting last …

Slavery

Surge in Albanian child slaves trafficked to Britain

Victims are involved in criminal activities, warns the children’s charity Barnardo’s<p>A new system to protect trafficked children indicates that there has been an alarming rise in the number of Albanian child slaves forced to work in the UK.<p>If the trend – being highlighted on Anti-Slavery Day – were …

Slavery

Child trafficking in China often starts with parents selling their own kids

In China, anywhere from 20,000 to 200,000 children are abducted every year, either sent into forced labor or sold to quasi-legal adoption brokers. While many of these children were taken away by strangers in public places, public court documents from China indicate that child traffickers often have …

Parenting

Human trafficking survivor: I was raped 43,200 times

<b>Mexico City (CNN) —</b> Karla Jacinto is sitting in a serene garden. She looks at the ordinary sights of flowers and can hear people beyond the garden walls, walking and talking in Mexico City.<p>She looks straight into my eyes, her voice cracking slightly, as she tells me the number she wants me to …

Crime

A former child slave speaks up: How to stop modern-day slavery

<b>(CNN) —</b> When Rani Hong was just seven years old she was taken from her family in India and sold into slavery. At an age when she should have been playing with dolls and making new friends at school, she was subjected to treatment that left her close to death.<p>"I was transported to another state, …

Slavery

Assam's tea gardens become hunting ground for child traffickers

As the day breaks over a lush-green tea plantation in Assam’s Baska district, a group of men, women and children file into the neat rows of tea …

India

A Mother's Story — What Parents Need to Know About Trafficking

Danielle was 17 years old, a freshman at Northeastern University, when she met the trafficker who forced her into two years of sex slavery. She …

Northeastern University

Was Couple’s Baby Switched in Child Trafficking Scheme?

El Salvador couple Richard Cushworth and Mercy Casanellas have accused the doctor who delivered their child of being party to a child-trafficking …

Father of abducted son fights child trafficking in China

In January of this year, twenty-eight-year-old Sun Bin, embraced his parents for the first time in 24 years.<p>Child traffickers had snatched him from …

China