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Trafficking in Women

                   

Government Urged to Step Up Measures Against Trafficking in People

allafrica.com
09-Oct-2008 17 related
        

Posted to the web 9 October 2008 Maputo The Southern African Network Against Trafficking in and Abuse of Minors (SANTAC) has urged the Mozambican government to step up actions to prevent and combat the trafficking in human...

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Nepal activists contest claims of decline in human trafficking

livemint.com
08-Oct-2008
        

New Delhi: Some activist groups in Nepal say trafficking in women has increased because of increased overseas migration to India and West Asia, rubbishing the government’s claims that the practice is declining. Nepal NGO says...

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UN review urged on Sabah crackdown

inquirer.net
08-Oct-2008 1 related
        

MANILA, Philippines -- Malaysia's mass deportation of Filipinos from Sabah might be brought before the United Nations' Human Rights Council when the country becomes subject of the Universal Periodic Review in February 2009, a...

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MALAYSIA: Emerging Trend in Trafficking Tribal Women

ipsnews.net
07-Oct-2008
        

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 (IPS) - An emerging trend in the trafficking of tribal people, mostly young girls, is raising concern among government officials, rights organisations, migration experts and human rights lawyers.

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Held on charge of women trafficking

hindu.com
06-Oct-2008
        

CHENNAI: The Crime Branch CID police arrested Poonga Venkatesan of Madambakkam, who was involved in trafficking women from neighbouring States and forcing them into flesh trade. According to an official release, Additional ...

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Human trafficking in Bangladesh and beyond

theasiannews.co.uk
06-Oct-2008
        

Dhaka - Sold to a dance bar owner and forced to work in the “flesh trade”, Zarina (whose name has been changed to protect her identity), a 16-year-old girl and daughter of a day labourer from Krishnapur in southeast Bangladesh,...

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Enfield's new race row

chortle.co.uk
06-Oct-2008 4 related
        

Harry Enfield might have sparked an international incident over a BBC sketch branded ‘racist’ in the Philippines. A Filpina Congresswoman is demanding the Corporation publicly apologise for the ‘revolting’ sketch, in which a...

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Kenya: How Kenyans Are Sold Into Slavery

allafrica.com
06-Oct-2008 7 related
        

Posted to the web 6 October 2008 Ken Opala Nairobi Thousands of Kenyans are being driven into modern slavery abroad in their desperate attempts to escape from worsening economic conditions at home. Nation investigations show...

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City to pay $700,000 in woman's traffic death

suntimes.com
06-Oct-2008 1 related
        

The family of a 69-year-old woman who was run over in a mid-block crosswalk and killed by a Chicago firefighter driving too fast for the rainy conditions would get $700,000 under a setttlement expected to be advanced later...

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Human trafficking in Bangladesh and beyond

worldpress.org
03-Oct-2008
        

Young woman in Bangladesh. A UNICEF report says that in Bangladesh alone approximately 400 women like this fall victim to trafficking each month. Sold to a dance bar owner and forced to work in the “flesh tradeâ€_, Zarina...

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