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BBC News, 2 April 2012 - Vladimir Hernandez

She has survived two murder attempts, her house was burnt down, she has received countless death threats, but nothing has stopped Susana Trimarco from looking for her missing daughter for the last 10 years.

BBC News, 1 March 2012

A witness to an alleged rape has described the moment she believed an underage girl was being forced to have sex for

The Guardian, 14 February 2012

Hundreds of African refugees are being held hostage in the Sinai desert of Egypt by smugglers demanding up to $40,000 (£25,000) each for their release, human rights workers have warned.

A brutal trafficking industry has

BBC news, 9 February 2012

A 10-year-old deaf girl was trafficked into the UK and kept in a cellar as a virtual slave for almost a decade, a court in Manchester has heard.

The orphaned youngster from Pakistan was forced to work for no pay

Daily Record, 27 January 2012

Victims of human sex trafficking have told how they were enslaved by witchcraft, torture and death threats in modern-day Scotland.

The harrowing stories of ten women were compiled by campaigners investigating the world’s

The Guardian, 17 January 2012

Fabulous, 14 January 2012

Lots of teenage girls want an older boyfriend to spoil them and make them feel special. But growing numbers are finding themselves forced into the sex trade when their boyfriend becomes their pimp. Fabulous investigates...

USA Today, 30 December 2011

President Obama is declaring January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

"We stand with all those who are held in compelled service," Obama wrote in a proclamation issued today. "We

The Huffington Post UK, 5 January 2012

Britain's record on protecting children from workplace exploitation worsened over the past year, new research claims.

The UK was rated "medium risk" in the annual child labour index compiled by Bath-based

Inter Press Servic, 3 January 2012

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Soma was a teenager in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif when her grandfather arranged her marriage to a husband she had never met.

Brought up in a household with no father, Soma felt she

The Express Tribune, 3 January 2012

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has constituted a committee to probe into a human trafficking case allegedly involving various officials of the British Council Pakistan, officials revealed.

A case of human

The Washington Times, 16 December 2011

Poor families in Benin subscribe to Vidomegon, a common social practice that places children of the poor with wealthier families.  The child exchanges labor for food and lodging.  Beninese girls are much more vulnerable

BBC News, 7 December 2011

Police in China say they have rescued nearly 200 children after uncovering two child-trafficking gangs.

More than 600 people were arrested in raids in 10 Chinese

New Zealand Herald, Thursday 24 November, 2011

An alarming rise in people trafficking has emerged in Pacific Island states, often linked to transnational crime groups also involved in narcotics and other major crimes.

The islands have also become

The government has reinforced commitments in fighting modern day slavery with ministers set to launch new anti human trafficking measures on Anti-Slavery Day in October.

Children's minister Tim Loughton said the Department for Education and the Home Office would use the day

Men from eastern Europe are the latest victims of gangs who are promising jobs in Britain but delivering a life of virtual slavery.

Gedimanas Rekesius was sitting in a park sipping a coffee when he answered the question that made him a modern-day slave. "Are you

On the morning of 15 March Joy Vincent left Croydon's Gilroy Court Hotel, and then she disappeared. No one knows what happened next: whom she met, where she was taken, whether she even went left or right. She had no family, no apparent friends, no one whom the 17-year-old could trust.

Ten years ago on 21 September a young boy's torso was found floating in the River Thames near Tower Bridge by a member of the public.

Forensic tests revealed that 'Adam', as he was named by police, was a five or six-year-old boy

Crewe Chronicle Sep 14th 2011

FOUR Crewe-based Slovakians have appeared in court charged with human trafficking offences.

After an eight-month investigation by Cheshire police, all four accused appeared together in the dock at South Cheshire Magistrates Court in Crewe, last

People-traffickers were ordered to step up exodus

When the Mukhabarat, Libya's dreaded secret police, came for Mustafa Fauzi his immediate reactions were fear followed by resignation. He had already undergone a brutal experience in prison for human trafficking and

CNN Freedom Project, 8 September 2011

How can technology be used to fight human trafficking? It's the question technology leaders, including Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, will try to answer in an anti-slavery forum in the Silicon Valley next month.

'This is London' Sep 14th 2011

The scale of teenage domestic abuse was revealed today in a landmark study showing that children as young as 13 are suffering at the hands of violent partners.

Many victims are experiencing severe abuse such as being

BBC News, 4 September 2011

Hundreds of migrant domestic workers have demonstrated outside Parliament against proposed changes to their UK visa conditions.

BBC News, 26 August 2011

A man accused of trafficking eastern European women into Northern Ireland to work in the sex trade, took up to 80% of their earnings, a court has heard.

BBC News, 22 August 2011

Comedian Mark Thomas has made the shortlist for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression awards.

The Edinburgh Fringe award is given each year to an outstanding play carrying a human

BBC News, Mery Vaca and Mattia Cabitza, 17 August 2011

Juan Rivera couldn't believe his luck when he was taken to Russia with the promise of a guaranteed job and a monthly pay of $2,500 (£1,550).

The hidden world

Three people have been charged with conspiracy to traffic women into 

Tom Whitehead, The Telegraph, 19 July 2011

Traffickers will use next year’s Olympic Games as a cover to smuggle in people, the Home Secretary signalled yesterday.

BBC News, 19 July 2011

The UK has pledged greater co-operation with foreign police to target people-smugglers, as part of new efforts to combat human trafficking.

Anna Pukas and Tom Ward, The Express, 9 July 2011

STOLEN was a powerful drama which told the stories of three children trafficked into Britain. There was Georgy, the exuberant Ukrainian boy; Kim Pak, a Vietnamese youth condemned to a life perpetually indoors working in

 BBC News, 5 July 2011

The PSNI could do more to help victims of sex trafficking, the head of Amnesty International in Ireland has said.

Patrick Corrigan said the police are letting victims down because they do not feel safe enough to go to court.

 Mark Townsend, The Guardian, 2 July 2011

Government plans to fight human trafficking are basically about immigration control, says former Tory MP.

Experts have condemned the government's forthcoming strategy against human trafficking, accusing it of being more

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, The Guardian, 2 July 2011

This $32bn business is nothing less than serious, international, organised crime and must be fought with cross-border laws

The Guardian, 27 June 2011

The State Department has ranked human trafficking in every country in the world.  This article contains an interactive map and detailed data.

EUobserver, 23 June 2011

On the eve of a two-day summit covering migration issues as well as the Greek crisis, the EU's main institutions have agreed to give extra powers to the bloc's border agency Frontex on human trafficking and other cross-border crimes.

BBC News, 21 June 2011

Three men and a woman have appeared in court to face one of the first prosecutions in Scotland under new sex trafficking legislation.

BBC News, 14 June 2011

Ten men have been arrested in raids in Greater Manchester and Derbyshire as part of a major investigation into the sexual exploitation of children.

HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling has donated £50,000 to help victims of child slavery.

The cash will fund the Centre of Hope in the Philippines, a refuge for victims of people trafficking.

June 6, 2011

David Smith, The Guardian

Nigerian police have raided a "baby farm", where young girls were locked up and used to produce babies, which were then sold for witchcraft or adoption. 

BBC News, Tuesday 1 February 2011

Kathryn Bolkovac went to work for the UN peacekeeping mission in post-war Bosnia in the late 1990s, only to stumble upon a thriving sex trade.  When she tried to report the abuse, she lost her job.  

Human trafficking is a major issue of global concern. It can be regarded as modern day slavery in that victims are controlled by traffickers with violence and intimidation for the purpose of exploitation for economic gains.

Children smuggled into the UK are being sold on British streets for up to £16,000 each, MPs have heard in a debate on human trafficking.

The DUP's David Simpson, MP for Upper Bann, said it was a "disgrace".

Mark Townsend, The Guardian, 29 May 2011

Government and social services departments are accused of failing to protect victims.   

Worthing Herald, 21 May 2009

A COUPLE illegally recruited and exploited untrained immigrant workers who cared for vulnerable elderly people at two Worthing care homes, a court heard.

Dec 2010

The EU has adopted a new law to curb human trafficking, extending punishment to those who help the smuggling gangs.

Jail sentences for the most serious offences will be at least five years, rising to 10

Human Trafficking is a television mini-series about an agent going undercover to stop an organization from trafficking people, and shows the struggles of three trafficked women. It premiered in the United States on Lifetime Television on October 24, 2005 and later aired on CityTV in several

Suspected victims of child trafficking from Asia, Africa and the Middle East are being smuggled through Britain's leading ports and airports at an accelerating rate, new figures obtained under