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25.08.2025 10:09

Trafficking victim reunited with son

Trafficking victim reunited with son Catholic REVIEW JANUARY  19, 2012 News NEWARK, N.J. – Through the work of the Archdiocese of Newark’s Catholic Charities’ refugee resettlement and human trafficking programs, a former trafficking victim was...

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28.10.2024 13:10

Rockford Man Sentenced to 35 Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking

Press Release   Monday, October 28, 2024 Share  For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois ROCKFORD — A Rockford man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal...

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28.10.2024 13:06

Sex Trafficker Sentenced to 27 Years in Federal Prison

  Share  For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois CHICAGO — A Joliet, Ill. man has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and facilitating the sex trafficking of...

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28.10.2024 13:00

Woman and Her Two Daughters Sentenced to Federal Prison for Labor Trafficking Conspiracy in Chicago Suburbs

CHICAGO — A woman and her two daughters were sentenced to federal prison terms today for conspiring to force undocumented West African children to work in the Chicago suburbs. NAWOMI AWOGA and her two daughters, MARINA OKE and ASSIBA LEA FANDOHAN, were convicted last year of conspiring...

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27.10.2020 16:51

ICE, Brazil Federal Police partnership lead to arrest of human smuggler

BRASILIA, Brazil – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Brazil assists Brazil Federal Police in the capture of a dual Egyptian-Lebanese national for the smuggling of nine Yemenis nationals. The Brazil Federal Police received an anonymous tip on the...

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08.11.2011 11:24

The business of human trafficking

At some point in a company's supply chain, it’s likely they are using products, supplies or services that involve trafficked people, says one senior company executive. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian theguardian Companies often use complex global procurement systems to deny their...

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26.09.2011 11:02

El Salvador To Set-Up Human Trafficking Council

Inside CostaRica' Daily English News Source / Sunday 25 September 201 San Salvador - El Salvador will establish a National Council against Human Trafficking to assist the victims of the crime. Manuel Melgar, Minister of Justice and Security, said it is hard to determine the extent of this...

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18.08.2011 11:33

China Steps Up Anti-Child Trafficking Efforts

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 at 7:40 am UTC Posted 1 day ago The Chinese government is drafting tighter rules on adopting children to combat the country's widespread child trafficking problem. The China Daily newspaper says only orphanages will be able to offer abandoned infants and...

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28.07.2011 12:08

Mexican Cartels Move Into Human Trafficking:Daily Human Trafficking and Smuggling Report

The Salvadoran single mother was hoping to support her children in the United States. Instead, gunmen from the Zeta drug cartel kidnapped her in Mexico and forced her to cook, clean and endure the rapes of multiple men. Now the survivor of this terrifying three- month ordeal is a witness for a...

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04.09.2010 20:24

United Nations GA formally launches Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Person.

31 August 2010 – The United Nations today launched a global action plan to combat human trafficking, with senior UN officials urging that governments worldwide take coordinated and consistent measures to try to defeat the scourge. The plan, launched at a high-level meeting of the General...

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30.06.2010 14:02

México, primer país del mundo en campaña de la ONU contra trata de personas

México, primer país del mundo en campaña de la ONU contra trata de personas México, 14 abr. (EFE)- El presidente mexicano, Felipe Calderón, y el subsecretario general de la ONU, Antonio María Costa, lanzaron hoy la campaña "Corazón Azul" en contra de la trata de personas en el mundo, con lo...

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24.06.2010 11:20

UNODC Launches Global Review on Migrant Smuggling

  10 June 2010 Migrant smuggling has been an issue of increasing concern. The negative consequences of this type of transnational crime include the erosion of state sovereignty and the loss of control over who enters and leaves the territory, the potential security implications of clandestine...

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22.03.2010 10:48

Council of Europe steps up action to combat sexual violence against children‏

Strasbourg, 22.03.2010 – In ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse today, San Marino has cleared the way for the convention to come into force on 1 July this year. Designed to protect children against all forms of...

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01.02.2010 13:05

South Asia: Gateway to the world - UNODC launches its new South Asia website

Asia website Today, on 1 February 2010, the Regional Office of the United Nations on Drugs Crime for South Asia is launching its new website. The official launch is taking place at our main office in New Delhi and we have invited several experts and partners, who have been working with us...

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01.02.2010 11:33

UN chief launches campaign in Africa to eradicate male violence against women‏

30 January 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the support of African leaders to give new impetus to his campaign to end the violence suffered by women on the continent, which he called the “unsung heroines” of development in the region. “We know African women are often a...

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11.01.2010 10:31

CONSIDERACIONES EN MATERIA DE TRATA DE PERSONAS DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DEL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL DE LOS REFUGIADOS

Presentación del ACNUR con ocasión de la Segunda Reunión de Autoridades Nacionales en materia de trata de personas (OEA) 25-27 de marzo de 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Versión en Inglés

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24.09.2009 23:12

Clinton Global Initiative on Human Trafficking

  Seminar: Leadership and Solutions to End Human Trafficking and Forced Labor.     Take Action, Make a Commitment.   The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting 2009 is the only venue where business, government, and civil-sector leaders work together to plan and launch...

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16.09.2009 11:54

USA: Proposed legislation would amend outdated child labor laws‏

Human Rights Watch Press release September 15, 2009. The US Congress should amend outdated labor laws that allow even young children to work in commercial US agriculture, Human Rights Watch said today. Legislation introduced today by Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard of California would for the...

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31.08.2009 14:45

UNODC releases new anti-human trafficking manual

28 August 2009 - Today at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, UNODC released a new manual that addresses gaps in the capacity of criminal justice practitioners to prevent and combat trafficking in persons. The Anti- Human Trafficking Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners, which...

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16.08.2009 22:43

MEXICO ENDORSES BLUE HEART CAMPAIGN

13 August 2009 - The recently established Inter-Secretariat Commission to Prevent and Prosecute Trafficking in Persons of Mexico has unanimously approved a UNODC proposal to launch the Blue Heart Campaign. Mexico will be the first Latin American State to take the lead in this global movement...

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