ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Nomin wanted to go to college. Three years ago, unable to afford tuition in the Mongolian capital, the native of remote Zavkh...
New York Times | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
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...
WorldFocus | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
In Malaysia, some immigration officials have been accused of involvement in selling refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma, to gangs in Thailan...
AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican man has been detained for allegedly plotting to sell a young woman, two girls and two boys for $2,000 apiece in the Unit...
Tri Robinson | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
When you look at the scope of the world's problems today, the environmental crisis is not one that can be addressed singularly. It is the linchpin of so many different crises.
World Vision | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
The immigration officer told us that one of his duties was to bring back the bodies of Cambodians killed in Thailand. According to him, there were several each month -- shot, beaten or drowned.
Greg Barrett | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home
If Thailand wants invitations to closed-door U.N. meetings, it needs to stop marketing its women and children.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Via Nerve comes the story of this document, recently obtained by The Smoking Gun, which is apparently from a letter sent by the Department of Homeland...
GlobalPost | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
Yasmina was 12 years old when an aunt and uncle brought her to France from Mali to be a live-in nanny to their children. Once she was settled in a ...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
Spanish police Friday arrested 23 people in multiple cities for their involvement in a Nigerian human trafficking operation that forces women into pro...
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 05.27.2009 | World
I cannot imagine a crime for which a mandatory minimum sentence, reflecting the Canadian public's complete intolerance and collective denunciation, would be more appropriate than for child trafficking.
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
Human trafficking is a rampant problem in Canada, and one that is not being addressed.
The Latin Americanist | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Another dimension has been added to the troublesome aspect of adoptions in Guatemala when the government revealed yesterday that civil war orphans had...
CNN | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Suzanne Hagelof and Iris Botros dreamed of adopting babies. Separately, they visited orphanages in Egypt. Hagelof adopted a child, and Botros was in t...
Tri Robinson | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
What I am about to state seems indisputably clear to me as a Bible-believing and Bible-practicing Christian. After spending the better part of 30 year...
Amb. Swanee Hunt | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
The change these days isn't just an adjustment to a lower standard of living. With these economic woes, human trafficking of women and children from Eastern Europe will likely increase.
Jim Wallis | Posted 02.19.2009 | Living
The day after the inauguration, I will be joining religious leaders at the National Prayer Service for our new president. I will pray that this new era can change the image of religion in our country.
Tri Robinson | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green
The environmental crisis facing our world today has become an issue of social justice.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.02.2009 | World
In March of 2008, I interviewed a senior State Department Official who discussed efforts to highlight awareness of the link between sex trafficking and HIV/AIDS.
Taina Bien-Aime | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
The Wilberforce Act targets pimping and traffickers, which in turn will help prevent sex trafficking and protect its victims, which in turn will help us become effective leaders in combating human trafficking.
Washington Post | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian ...
Juli Weiner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Entertainment
The furtive Chinese government does everything in its (far-reaching, for sure) power to silence the families of over 70,000 children a year who are being "snatched from the streets."
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living
Arriving back in Vancouver after spending three and a half months in Phnom Penh I was dazzled by how clean and functional it was. It is easy to slip b...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living
I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...
GlobalPost | Posted 08.22.2009 | World