Human Trafficking

Why the Women's Rights Movement Must Listen to Sex Workers

Chi Mgbako | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Prostitution, Human Rights, Sex Workers, Sex Trafficking, Feminism, Human Trafficking, Impact News

The characterization of sex workers fighting for their human rights as "prostituted women" engaged in futile attempts to "organize the enslaved" is perplexing.

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Human Trafficking a Growing Global Scourge

Andrew Lam | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Trafficking, Slavery, Sex Trafficking, Vietnam, Prosecution, Eritrea, Sex Trade, Black Market, Human Trafficking, Organ Harvesting, Crime News

Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal business in the world, according to the State Department. It ranks only second to drug trafficking in profitability, bringing in an estimated $32 billion annually.

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SEX TRAFFICKING: Backpage.com Used For Backdoor Deals

AP | RYAN J. FOLEY | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Iowa, Sex Workers, Iowa City, Sex Trafficking, Johnelle Bell, Backpage.com, Human Trafficking, backpage.com Sex, Video, Johnelle L. Bell, New Jersey, Sex, backpage.com Sex Trafficking, Crime News

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A nationwide sex trafficking ring run by a violent pimp and his associates used Backpage.com to solicit customers for prostitu...

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Partnerships for Hope -- Rani Hong with UN.GIFT

Rani Hong | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Slavery, Human Trafficking, Modern-Day Slavery, India Slavery, Human Trafficking Slavery, India Child Slavery, Impact News

UN.GIFT sat down with Rani to discuss her own story and her tireless work to ensure that people around the world can live without fear of enslavement.

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Facing Common Struggles, Domestic Workers Mobilize Across Borders

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Women, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Latin America, Migrant Workers, Globalization, Immigration, Labor Unions, Feminism, Human Trafficking, Labor, Human Rights, Slavery, Domestic Workers, Asia, Health Care, Video, World News

Creative protest through film and media are forming a common language for a dialogue on migrants' rights, breaking their silence with one collective voice.

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Educating Girls to Stop Girl Trafficking in Nepal

Jesse Seaver | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Girls, India, Sex Trafficking, Child Sex Trafficking, American-Himalayan-Foundation, Nepal, Video, Human Trafficking, Impact News

Every year, around 20,000 girls are taken from their homes in Nepal and transported to India and the Middle East to work as slaves. It is estimated that 12,000 to 15,000 end up as prostitutes in Indian brothels.

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America's Shame: The U.S. Government's Human Trafficking Dilemma

Joe Newman | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Congress, Human Rights, Defense Contractors, Iraq Contractors, Iraq, Human Trafficking, Afghanistan War, Politics News

This human trafficking pipeline wasn't benefiting some shadowy war lord or oppressive regime. No, these are workers who were feeding, cleaning up after and providing logistical support for U.S. troops -- the standard bearers of the free and democratic world.

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Girls of Color, Backpage, and the Online Girl Trade

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Media Criticism, Media, Child Sex Trafficking, Children, Sex, Human Trafficking, Power & Politics, Sex Trade, Poverty, Black Voices News

I grew up loving the Village Voice. During the 80's and 90's, it was also one of those rare mainstream publications in which the Black and Brown mind, body, and spirit were routinely celebrated. That is why I am heart-broken to witness how it now survives off the exploitation and enslavement of girls.

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A Prosecutor Sets His Sights On the Johns

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: New York Crime, Covenant House, Crime, Sex Trafficking, Impact News, Manhattan District Attorney, New York City, Cyrus Vance Jr., Human Trafficking, Impact News

This is one of the few high profile cases across the country in which the johns as well as the traffickers have been indicted, and I applaud the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., for his leadership.

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How You Can Help Protect Victims of Human Trafficking by Voting in the Next Presidential Election

Deborah Bergman | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Sex Trafficking, 2012 Presidential Election, Presidential Election, Human-Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Politics News

Enforcing obscenity laws will not combat human trafficking because the vast majority of trafficking victims do not work in the pornography industry. It will only consume resources that should be used to aid the victims of all forms of trafficking and to prosecute their traffickers.

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Prosecutors: Accused Slave Trader Should Pay Victims $1.6 Million

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: $1.6 Million, Detroit, Veniamin Gonikman to Pay, Veniamin Gonikman, Ukraine, Michigan Slave Trader, Human Trafficking, Business News

Federal prosecutors Thursday urged a U.S. District Court to order accused human trafficker Veniamin Gonikman to pay $1.6 million to 12 victims, and ig...

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Taking Down Pimps Without Traumatizing Victims

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Covenant House, New York Crime, Victimless Prosecution, Crime, Manhattan District Attorney, Sex Trafficking, New York City, Human Trafficking, Cyrus Vance Jr., Impact News

They tattooed these street names on the women they exploited. One woman had a crown with a dollar sign tattooed above her pubic bone. Another had "King Koby" and a barcode permanently inked on her neck.

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Crime Actually Does Pay

Reuters | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Corruption, Video, U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Unodc, Crime, Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Reuters, United Nations, World Bank, U.S. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Un, Gross Domestic Product, Human Trafficking, Business News

* Criminal business one of the world's largest - U.N. * Threatens international development goals * Crime groups showing...

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Conversation With Jaida Im of Freedom House

Nicki Richesin | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Jaida Im, San Francisco News, Human Trafficking San Francisco, Sex Trafficking, California Human Trafficking, San Francisco, Freedom House, Human Trafficking, Freedom House California, Freedom House Gala, San Francisco Impact, San Francisco News

Survivors of human trafficking are modern day slaves living without freedom. They are kept in bondage. Even when they are rescued from their perpetrators, they are not truly freed since they have nowhere to turn to for help.

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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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WATCH: With Every Strikeout, MLB Players Donate To Fight Child Trafficking

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Stephen Drew, Free2play, Video, Mlb, Major League Baseball, Yuri Fedotov, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Jeremy Affeldt, Facebook, Not for Sale, Human Trafficking, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Impact News

Opening day for some Major League Baseball players proved to be more unifying than it was competitive. Several big leaguers are starting their sea...

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Listening for the Voice of Aslan

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Immigration, Presidential Candidates, Faith and Politics, Human Trafficking, Common Good, Politics News

Instead of voting for the candidates, the parties, and the Super-PACs, a new generation of believers will be voting for their values, their friends, and their own voices -- voting for us. And that is hopeful to me.

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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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How Many Slaves Produced Your Seder?

Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Passover, Jewish, Human Trafficking, Slavery, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, Kosher, Passover Seder, Occupy Faith, Green Faith, Food Politics, Judaism, Religion News

As the seder begins, we say metaphorically, "This year, we are slaves. Next year, may we be free people." Let us hope that by next Passover, our feasts of liberation will be made without slave labor and that more people will be free.

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2.4 Million People Are Victims Of Human Trafficking

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Yuri Fedotov, United Nations, Michelle Bachelet, Sexual Exploitation, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Mira Sorvino, Sexual Slavery, Human Trafficking, Video, Slaves, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Sex Slaves, Ban Ki-Moon, World News

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. crime-fighting office said Tuesday that 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking at any one tim...

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Conversations With Christopher Bessette and Dermot Mulroney on Trade of Innocents

Nicki Richesin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Trade of Innocents, Dermot Mulroney, Human Rights, Yale Law School, Slavery, Ngos, Trieu Tran, Yale University, Film, Christopher Bessette, Mira Sorvino, Bangkok, Human Trafficking, Yale, Entertainment News

The problem of human trafficking is all over the world. Slavery is alive and well in the 21st century; it's time we as a people put an end to it. It's definitely time modern day abolitionists made it known we are not going to turn away from it anymore.

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Some Things Are Just Unacceptable

David Isenberg | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Private Military Security Contractors, Human Trafficking, Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Gerry Connolly, Rob Portman, Business News

This is not some merely some picayune issue for bureaucrats to fuss over. As Sen. Portman testified, "This is about something much more fundamental, and that's who we are as a people. It's about respecting and protecting human dignity."

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Why The Village Voice Must Shut Down Backpage.com's Adult Section

Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Village Voice Media, Nicholas Kristof, Backpage.com, Sex Trafficking, Groundswell, Gender and Religion, Village Voice, Human Trafficking, Religion News

Called upon to act by a multifaith clergy coalition of hundreds of rabbis, ministers, imams, priests, and other religious and moral leaders, Village Voice has claimed that this issue is "complicated."

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Mother Hunts For Leads In Suspected Sex Trafficking Cold Case

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Jessie Foster, Crime News, Crime, Sex Trade, Jessie Foster Missing, Sex Trafficking, British Columbia, Las Vegas, Human Trafficking, Prostitution, Video, Missing Persons, Slidepollajax, Glendene Grant, Crime News

Coming up on the sixth anniversary of her disappearance, Glendene Grant has released an age-progressed portrait showing what her missing daughter migh...

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Remembering The Victims Of Slavery

Free The Slaves | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Sarah Mendelson, Usaid, Slavery, Free the Slaves, Usaid Policy, Hillary Clinton, Rajiv Shah, Modern Day Slavery, Human Trafficking, Activism, Impact News

USAID has made tremendous progress in the past year on C-TIP and I'm already looking forward to next year's PITF, where we can share how we've turned our policy into action, announce concrete deliverables, and make new commitments to combating this horrific crime. We hope all our partners inside and outside the government will hold us accountable.

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