Child Trafficking

Pimps Tattoo Bar Code on Victim's Neck

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Prostitution, Sex Trafficking, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Trafficking, New York Politics, Cyrus Vance Jr., Crime News

Pimps brand their victims the way Nike brands its shoes. A 16 year-old girl identified as "Taz" in an op-ed was "branded" on her neck with a safety pin when she refused a tattoo.

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A Former Sex Slave Finds Freedom As An Entrepreneur

HuffingtonPost.com | Janean Chun | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Small Business Success Stories, Revelation Candles, Child Trafficking, Sex Slaves, Sex Trafficking, Entrepreneur Spotlight, Pamela Villarreal, Texas Property Control, Small Business News

Pamela Villarreal grew up as a sheltered child in a middle class home in upstate New York. But at age 15, one act of youthful rebellion ended up with ...

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When Amber Isn't Enough: Enlisting Truckers to Help Find Missing Kids

Diane Russell | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Isabel Mercedes Celis, Truck Drivers, Fcc, Child Trafficking, Child Abduction, Amber Alert, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Trucker Tv, Ayla Reynolds, Truckers, Impact News

"Trucker TV" could reach thousands of long-haul truck drivers, the very folks who travel the same roads and stop at the same rest areas where missing and exploited children often happen to be.

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An Evening of Courage

Rani Hong | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Rani Hong, Tronie Foundation, Survivor, Human Slavery, Human Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Female Solidarity, Women's Courage, Impact News

Each woman shared pieces of a remarkable journey, from all corners of the globe: India to Tacoma to New York City. Prostitution, forced marriage, slavery, kidnapping. But they all shared a most rare characteristic: courage.

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5 Ways To Ensure Your Easter Chocolate Is Slavery-Free

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Easter, Video, Stop Traffick, Easter Chocolate, Cocoa Farms Slaves, Child Trafficking, Slavery, Aly Diabate, Slavery Free Easter Chocolate, Slave Free Chocolate, Slavery-Free Chocolate, Slidepollajax, Impact News

Easter's chocolate bunnies will bring smiles to celebrating kids, but the tasteless truth is that African children are suffering unimaginable harm to ...

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A Girl's Prayer

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Sex Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Child Labor, Sex Workers, Child Trafficking, Child Slavery, Impact News

In many ways I have protected all of my children from the human rights work that I do, especially the anti-trafficking efforts. I have tried to insulate them from the violence that is part of my every day reality.

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Daniel Bedingfield Performs New Single "Don't Write Me Off" Live on What's Trending

Shira Lazar | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Don't Write Me Off, Natasha Bedingfield, Stop the Traffik, Daniel Bedingfield Don't Write Me Off, Daniel Bedingfield Indie, Daniel Bedingfield Video, Daniel Bedingfield New Single, Daniel Bedingfield Release Date, Daniel Bedingfield Non-Profit, Daniel Bedingfield Charity, Daniel Bedingfield Independent, Daniel Bedingfield New Release, Daniel Bedingfield Performer, New Indie Music, UK Music Charts, Video, Indie Music, Daniel Bedingfield, Child Trafficking, Daniel Bedingfield Ep, Daniel Bedingfield New Music, Daniel Bedingfield Music, Daniel Bedingfield New Song, Daniel Bedingfield Performing, Child Trafficking New Music, Daniel Bedingfield Label, What's Trending, Entertainment News

Daniel Bedingfield is back! The British singer-songwriter, who also happens to be Natasha Bedingfield's brother (music runs in the family), has ditched the labels and crowd sourced funding from his fans for his new album.

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7 Ways to Empower Women on International Women's Day

World Vision | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Clean Water, Women, Microenterprise, At Risk Youth, Maternal Health, Child Trafficking, Child Health, Women News

Here are seven easy tips to make a big difference for daughters, sisters and mothers across our world and right here in our own neighborhoods.

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Regulating Modeling Agencies to Help Prevent Child Sex Trafficking

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Modeling Agencies, Model Scouting, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Jean Luc Brunel, Ford Models, Jeffrey Epstein, Impact News

Given the growing number of modeling agencies that transport underage teenagers from foreign countries into the United States and the growing sex trade of underage girls in the U.S. why does this industry remain deregulated?

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Fighting Child Trafficking

Alec Baldwin | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: love146, Philippines Trafficking, Love 146 Child Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Child Trafficking Rescue, Philippines Child Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Child Trafficking Girls, Child Sex Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, New York News

People too often only talk about the horror and despair surrounding child trafficking and exploitation (which is a reality), but not enough about the hope, empowerment and change that is also just as much of a reality.

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Speak With Your Life: A Witch Doctor, The White House and Charlie

Sonya Denyse | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Justice Ochan, Restoration, Masindi, Uganda, Child Trafficking, Witch Doctors, Restore International, George Kabi, Human Trafficking, Bob Goff, Good News News

Why does a little boy from Uganda get invited to the Oval Office? The year before, Charlie had been kidnapped by a witch doctor and brutally mutilated, but he survived.

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Mexican Authorities Unravel Mind-Blowing Child Trafficking Scheme

AP | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Mexico Jalisco, Child Trafficking, Mexico Child Trafficking Ring, Child Trafficking Ring, Mexico Child Trafficking Case, Mexico, Mexico Child Trafficking, Jalisco, Video, World News

ZAPOPAN, Mexico — The Irish couples ensnared in an apparent illegal adoption ring in western Mexico thought they were involved in a legal proces...

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3 Women Busted In Child-Trafficking Ring

AP | By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Child Trafficking, Mexico, Mexico Child Trafficking, Guadalajara, Human Trafficking, Jalisco, World News

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators detained three more women in the city of Guadalajara in connection with an apparent child-trafficking ring that a...

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Building Effective Anti-Trafficking Efforts: Drivers as Allies

Sienna Baskin | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Politics News

Some anti-trafficking advocates have called for punishment of taxi and other drivers who may be driving people engaged in prostitution, based on the notion that these drivers are engaging in promoting prostitution and also in human trafficking. But this is a false premise.

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Luke 2:22-40: How Are We Caring for Our Children Today?

Rev. Dr. Susan K. Hedahl | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Scripture Commentary, Christianity, On Scripture, New Testament, Gospel of Luke, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Birth of Jesus, Sex Trafficking, Christian Social Justice, Video, Religion News

Within this text of love and support for a child, we unmistakably hear the note of justice sounded clearly. Indeed the rising and falling of many has and will occur in terms of their treatment of children.

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The Politics of Child Protection Led by a Motley Pirate Ship of Pissed Off People

Trish Kinney | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: National Association to Protect Children, Andrew Vachss, Sexual Abuse, Child Trafficking, Incest, Child Protection, Crime News

"If a child makes a cry for help and that child is not protected and put back in harm's way, that's the most devastating and destructive thing that could ever happen to a human being."

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WATCH: Boy In Haiti Rescued From Deep Hole, Possible Sex Trafficking (VIDEO)

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Dominican Republic, Port-Au-Prince, Yves Prophete, Child Trafficking, All of God's Children Orphanage, Haiti, Video, Impact News

Badly baten, naked and hungry, a Haitian child now called Miguel had been left in a deep hole for days. Haiti officials believe he was put there by...

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Major Bust In Thriving Market For Baby Boys

AP | By ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: China One Child Policy, China Child Trafficking, One Child Policy, Child Trafficking, China, World News

BEIJING -- Chinese police arrested 608 suspects and rescued 178 children in busts of two separate child trafficking networks, authorities said Wednesd...

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Modern Day Slavery -- Say What?

Henry Freeman | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Prostitution, Ricky Martin, Education, Nepal, Child Trafficking, Modern Slavery, United Nations, Slavery, Ricky Martin Foundation, Unicef, Human Trafficking, Crime News

Could it really be true that a being so intelligent like man, still hasn't evolved to a level where slavery and abuse of others are just memories of a cruel past? Do a little searching and some real disgust starts to develop.

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An American Nightmare

Dan Rather | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Child Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Video, Crime News

Many alleged human trafficking victims have never faced violence or physical threats, but claim they are victims of a modern form of slavery nonetheless.

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Actor Josh Hartnett Toys With Swordplay in Bunraku and Lives to Discuss It

Brad Balfour | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Pearl Harbor Movie, Black Hawk Down, Puppets, Samuel L. Jackson, Vampires, William Shakespeare, Lucky Number Slevin, Demi Moore, Western, Assassins, Woody Harrelson, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Gackt Camu, Ron Perlman, Brett Ratner, Samurai Films, Dystopia, Resurrecting the Champ, Louis Malle, Romania, Holly the Movie, Japanese Puppet Theater, Roland Joffé, Bucharest, Fantasy, Black Dahlia, James Ellroy, Bunraku, 30 Days of Night, Toronto International Film Festival, Trumpeter Chet Baker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Crime Boss, Josh Hartnett, The Faculty Movie, Ronin, Science-Fiction, Singularity Movie, French New Wave, Guy Moshe, Truffaut, Computer-Animated, Samurai, Child Trafficking, Iago, Brian DePalma, Kevin McKidd, Japan, Swordplay, Othello, Tale, Femme Fatale, Hidden Fortress, Entertainment News

Through Bunraku, an archly-stylized swordplay fantasy, Josh Hartnett returns to the genre spotlight. This computer-enhanced tale revolves around a "Man with No Name," and draws heavily on Samurai and Western tropes in an alternate-world dystopia.

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The Trouble With International Adoption Is not Trafficking: It's the Global Orphan Crisis

Dr. Jane Aronson | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Jane Aronson, China, Child Trafficking, Adoption, Orphans, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, Impact News

Why did we create such a marvelous bureaucracy to improve international adoption practices and not pour some of that money into the welfare of mothers in these countries?

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When The Trafficking Victims Protection Act Fails

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Sex Trafficking, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Tvpa, Politics News

According to the Department of Health and Human Services' fact sheet on the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA): The TVPA ... created new la...

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'Black Market Baby' Reunited With Mother After 34 Years

Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Sarah Hudson, Video, Child Trafficking, Black Market Baby, Kathleen Rhodes, Mother Daughter Reunited, Seymour Fenichel, Baby Trading, Adoption, Family, Home News

A woman sold by a baby broker when she was an infant has been reunited with her birth mother after a 34 year separation. Sarah Hudson was one of h...

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The Dark Underbelly of Immigration

Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Nigeria, Prostitution, Italy, Sex Trafficking, Immigration, Child Trafficking, Human Trafficking, World News

Immigration is an issue of frequent debate in the news but its dark underbelly -- the trafficking of people -- receives far less attention. Yet the scale of it is alarming.

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