• "After weapons and drugs, human trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal enterprise in the world." "After weapons and drugs, human trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal enterprise in the world."
This statement, referring to three atrocious man-made murdering tools, appears on the...
• Human trafficking underground in Utah communities In a highly religious community with low crime rates, many residents assume Utah is exempt from the insidious effects of underground crime. But even in Utah, human trafficking, one of the...
• Europe: Trafficking Rises as Incomes Fall The economic crisis sweeping Eastern Europe is leading to a sharp increase in people trafficking as people look to migrate for work amid rising unemployment and growing economic hardship, migration...
• Human trafficking from Lithuania increases Despite preventative measures by politicians, human trafficking volumes from Lithuania are rising. Detective Chief Superintendent in charge of Metropolitan Police Clubs and Vice Unit Richard Martin...
• SOUTH AFRICA: How heavy is human trafficking? (IRIN) - A series of workshops, hosted by the South African government and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), are being held to enlist the support of the media in raising the public...
• Cuba: is CANF smuggling migrants? (WW4 Report) -- On June 23 the Mexican daily La Jornada reported that according to "judicial sources" the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) has information that the Miami-based Cuban American...
• Council of Europe Has New Weapon in Struggle to Curtail Human Trafficking Excerpt: Every year, thousands of women, children and men fall victim to human trafficking, whether for sexual exploitation or other purposes, both within and beyond the borders of their own...
• Vietnam nabs suspected baby traffickers HANOI, Vietnam—Police said Monday they have arrested two people in northern Vietnam for trying to transport a newborn baby to China as part of a baby-trafficking ring, the second suspected ring...
• Chinese children sold "like cabbages" into slavery Thousands of children in southwest China have been sold into slavery like "cabbages", to work as labourers in more prosperous areas such as the booming southern province of Guangdong, a newspaper...
• The myth of trafficking Excerpt: Most migrant women, including those who end up in the sex industry, have made a clear decision to leave home and take their chances overseas. They are not "passive victims" who must be...
• BENIN: More than 40,000 children trafficked each year (IRIN) - A new study released jointly by the Ministry of Family and Children and the UN in Benin shows that more than 40,000 children aged between 6 and 17 were trafficked in 2006. Among those...
• CHAD: French NGO accused of trafficking children More than 100 children are in the custody of Chadian social services after members of a non-governmental organisation who said they were “rescuing” them from Sudan's war-torn Darfur...
• Africa against human trafficking Angolan Minister of Justice Manuel da Costa Aragao asked for joint efforts to avoid human trafficking which has reached alarming levels worldwide. At the closing session of the Third Conference of...
• Exploitation of Humans in Sex, Labor a Global And Local Issue Modern-day slavery exists in the form of human trafficking. It is a crime that happens globally, but more disturbingly, it happens here in the Bay Area of California.
When humans are trafficked,...