End Trafficking

By UNICEF USA

More than 5 million trafficked children. Learn the signs: unicefusa.org/endtrafficking

How secret army of slave labourers in Britain build beds sold at John Lewis: Brutalised into working for £10 a week, sleeping
dailymail.co.uk - Darragh Macintyre
It was a daring and audacious rescue mission. Upon its success rested the freedom, perhaps even the lives, of up to 45 men locked into a …
The list of slave-labor imports you use might surprise you
thenewstribune.com
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. That trendy …
The victims of the 21st-century slave trade
CNBC - Barbara Booth
In Thailand thousands of "sea slaves," held captive in shoddy fishing vessels, trawl for cheap forage fish used in canned pet food. In Pakistan, …
Sex slaves in SoCal: LAPD shifts approach to help victims
abc7.com - By
"They could be your daughter and you may not even know it," Dr. Stephany Powell stated as she described victims of human trafficking. Powell first got …
Indian police say bust child trafficking racket to United States
trust.org - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Syndicate sent at least 25 children to the United States using false documents before special investigative team made arrests By Anuradha …
A safe environment for child trafficking survivors - UNICEF Connect
unicef.org - By Gerrit Beger
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 …
Cops Smash $1.1M International Child-Trafficking Network: Europol
NBC News - By Alexander Smith
World 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.
Slaves for Sex: Inside the Dark World of Human Trafficking
abc6onyourside.com - Brooks Jarosz / Amanda Burger
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 …
When Sex Trafficking Goes Unnoticed in America
The Atlantic - Priscilla Alvarez
Many cases go unreported, making it a difficult crime for law enforcement personnel to spot. How do you identify sex-trafficking victims when such cases go largely undetected or unreported?* It’s an issue
The Truth About Child Trafficking in Senegal
newsweek.com - Mario Cruz
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 …
What's Being Done to Stop Child Trafficking in Utah?
good4utah.com - Marcos Ortiz
Video 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 …
New Jersey
The town where boys are 'groomed to become pimps'
CNN - By Bradley Myles, Special to CNN
(CNN) — 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. Showered
Revealed: Thailand's most senior human trafficking investigator to seek political asylum in Australia
The Guardian - Gay Alcorn, Keryn Reynolds and Margaret Simons
Major General Paween Pongsirin says his investigations into human trafficking implicated senior figures in police and military and he now fears for his life Thailand’s most senior police investigator human
Can a French Friar End the 21st-Century Slave Trade?
Vanity Fair - By William Langewiesche
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
Stolen Dreams: The Fight to End Child Marriage
unicefusa.org
Update 7/12: Signs of Change as Gambia, Tanzania Ban Child Marriage The small West African country of Gambia, as well as Tanzania in East Africa, have …
Hub of human trafficking: underground sex trade thrives in Milwaukee
Guardian US - Zoe Sullivan in Madison
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 Milwaukee has become “the Harvard of pimp school”
Surge in Albanian child slaves trafficked to Britain
The Guardian - Jamie Doward
Victims are involved in criminal activities, warns the children’s charity Barnardo’s A new system to protect trafficked children indicates that there has been an alarming rise in the number of Albanian
Child trafficking in China often starts with parents selling their own kids
Quartz
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
Justice
Human trafficking survivor: I was raped 43,200 times
CNN - By Rafael Romo, CNN
Mexico City (CNN) — 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. She looks into
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A former child slave speaks up: How to stop modern-day slavery
CNN - By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, for CNN
(CNN) — 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
Assam's tea gardens become hunting ground for child traffickers
hindustantimes.com - Anasuya S Basu
Children have gone missing from the tea gardens of Assam , feared to have been lured by traffickers active in an economically-backward region. And …
A Mother's Story — What Parents Need to Know About Trafficking
unicefusa.org
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 …
Was Couple’s Baby Switched in Child Trafficking Scheme?
The Daily Beast - Nina Strochlic
In El Salvador on Monday, a couple handed in the baby they had been raising as their own for three months and claimed the biological child that had …
China
Father of abducted son fights child trafficking in China
cbc.ca
In January of this year, twenty-eight-year-old Sun Bin, embraced his parents for the first time in 24 years. Child traffickers had snatched him from …