Five people have gone on trial in Germany for allegedly trafficking up to 200 Thai women and forcing them to work in a nationwide network of brothels. The four Thai women and a German man were arrested last year in what was dubbed the biggest mass search in the history …
The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, known best for its red, yellow and green sustainable seafood-rating scheme, is unveiling its first Seafood Slavery Risk Tool on Thursday. It’s a database designed to help corporate seafood buyers assess the risk of forced labor, human trafficking and hazardous child labor in the seafood …
ON Jan 12, officials from the Thai Department of Special Investigation (DSI) and armed military officers raided the “Victoria Secret” massage parlour in the Rama IX area of Bangkok. They rescued more than 100 women who had been forced into prostitution, including numerous trafficking victims who were under the age …
“I thought my final moment had arrived. We were desperate. We were like chickens spinning on a rotisserie.” ~LUCIANO ALCOCER, who was among a group of immigrants smuggled from Chaparral, N.M., to Dallas on a 12-hour trip in an unventilated trailer in 2002. Two migrants died in the ordeal, and he …
A JUDGE handing down verdicts in Thailand‘s biggest human trafficking trial on Wednesday had announced 21 guilty verdicts by mid-morning from 103 defendants, with judgments expected to last late into the day. Some of those found guilty of trafficking were also convicted for taking part in organised transnational crime, forcible detention …
Thailand on Wednesday defended its efforts to stop human trafficking after the United States kept it on a trafficking watch list and urged U.S. officials to visit the country and see first hand its efforts. Thailand is a regional center for migrant workers who come from poorer, neighboring countries including …
If Zaw Myo Htike could go home, he would. But even after working for nearly 13 years on a palm oil plantation in southern Myanmar, he hasn’t been able to make enough money to leave. In 2004, Zaw Myo Htike, a thin, muscular, 20-year-old Burmese man, was living in Wakema …
Saved from grips of being trafficked into modern-day slavery, victims suffer severe trauma and struggle to move on. England, United Kingdom – In a safe house in North West England, 19-year-old Lukas* is reliving his own personal hell over and over again. “Over the two years, I was given accommodation, …
Fewer women and girls reportedly entering shelters, but financial hardship is forcing younger girls into sex work and forcing some women to work for free. India’s rupee recall appears to have had “a massive impact” on the country’s human trafficking industry, according to advocacy and rescue groups, with some reporting …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge rejected pimping charges Friday against the operators of a major international website advertising escort services that the state attorney general has called the “world’s top online brothel,” citing federal free speech laws. California Attorney General Kamala Harris had charged Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer …
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (AP) — Facing international pressure for failing to stop human trafficking in its seafood sector, Thailand promised almost a year ago to compensate victims of slavery and industry leaders vowed to bring all shrimp processing in-house. That hasn’t always happened. Instead, some formerly enslaved shrimp peelers have …
HONOLULU (AP) — Pier 17 doesn’t even show up on most Honolulu maps. Cars whiz past it on their way to Waikiki’s famous white sand beaches. Yet few locals, let alone passing tourists, are aware that just behind a guarded gate, another world exists: foreign fishermen confined to American boats …