Human trafficking, otherwise known as child labor, migrant smuggling, sex worker trafficking, debt bondage, or good old fashioned slavery, adds up to one inescapable reality. An estimated 27 million human beings worldwide today are living lives of exploitation and humanity stripped bare beyond the bone of basic human rights. This is a bigger number than [...]
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Throughout the month of
September, public transit users will receive an important education on the
realities of child sex slavery in America. This week, Shared Hope
International will unveil End Child Sex Trafficking: Kids are NOT for Sale in
D.C., a campaign that aligns with D.C. Human Trafficking Awareness month.
Bright yellow signs in [...]
Breaking news out of Texas: Our Legal News Examiner William Pfeifer, Jr. is following the story of five people arrested arrested this week in Houston on charges of sex trafficking and the forced prostitution of women and teens as young as 16 years old.
Five men and one woman were arrested in Texas on Monday and [...]
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Aaliyah Bedwell – An Update June 17
Posted on June 17th, 2009
by Simon Barrett in Society and Culture
http://www.bloggernews.net/121278
My wife and I [...]
The abolition of slavery world wide is far from complete. Despite international and domestic laws against the practice of slavery, there are now some twenty-seven million people living as slaves. More than nine of the twenty-seven million are children. Every year vast numbers of human beings are trafficked both internationally and within national borders. In [...]
Human trafficking — also known as “pimping,” sometimes known as “slavery” — is awful enough. But when the humans being trafficked are children, it’s extra vile.
And it’s happening all around us. According to the nonprofit group Children at Risk, Houston is the nation’s largest hub for child trafficking. Near a national border, we’re known for [...]
Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh announced Virginia Johnson, 37, of Uniontown, was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove to 17 years in prison. She has a tier III sex offender registration requirement for life, and must verify her residence every 90 days. In addition, Johnson is not allowed to have any contact with her two daughters.
Johnson pled [...]
Trafficking: For the first time since its passing in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act has been used to charge “johns” | Mark Bergin
Federal investigators working to undermine sex trafficking across the country have long targeted pimps and prostitutes in their prosecutions, overlooking the purchasers of sex for reasons of efficiency. That may be changing. [...]
(VANCOUVER, Wash.) - On Tuesday, March 3, leaders from the Greater Portland Metro and Southwest Washington area will convene in Portland for a leadership summit on child sex trafficking co-hosted by Shared Hope International and the Oregon Human Trafficking Task Force.
This invitation-only event comes just days after police and the FBI rescued over 45 child [...]
FREETOWN, 26 February 2009 (IRIN) - Marion Kargbo was 18 when she was forced to marry a soldier of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in January 1999, in the middle of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Ten years later, RUF leaders have been found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including forced marriage [...]
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