As is common in natural disasters, orphaned children or with no adult around become prey for traffickers. Chaos plus corrupt officials equals trouble for these children, who are being trafficked into Thailand to be most likely sex slaves there. read more | digg story
Archive for May, 2008
Taking advantage of orphaned children in Myanmar
Posted: May 16, 2008 in human trafficking, modern day slaveryTags: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Human Rights, human trafficking, prostitution, Sex Slavery
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Illinois fights to combat slavery in its own backyard-Christa Hillock
Posted: May 14, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: human trafficking, modern day slavery, Slavery in America, What you can do!
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has initiated a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about human trafficking and to provide information to communities about what to look for and what to do if you suspect someone has been trafficking. This article, written by Christa Hillstron, looks briefly at the efforts in Illinois. The web-site [...]
We’re trying to find out how to get more traffic to this site, so we’ve added No More Slavery to some different web-sites: Digg (become our friend here)-digg.com is a site where the readers determine what information is interesting and worth reading. This is the complete list of articles we’ve “dugg” as well as the comments we’ve [...]
Prostitution case suspects could be victims of human trafficking, by Sarah Moore, The Enterprise
Posted: May 12, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Commercial Sexual Exploitation, human trafficking, prostitution, Sex Slavery
The article below, from the Enterprise, highlights the difficulty in trying trafficking cases due to the similarity of prostitution.
BEAUMONT – Possible prostitution at two spas raided last week could be linked to a Houston-area operation and be part of a worldwide human trafficking network, Beaumont police investigators say.
Beaumont Lt. Curtis Breaux said the two women arrested Wednesday, Su Han Jun, 45, and Li Zhao, 51, might be among untold numbers of foreign women lured from their homes with promises of lucrative jobs. They then are ensnared in a web of debt and coercion amounting to a form of feudal bondage, Breaux said.
A quick, basic introduction to the issue of modern day slavery, Ms. Simms also gives information about strategies that must be implemented for this issue to truly be addressed. read more | digg story
Radiohead Video raises awareness
Posted: May 9, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Child Slavery, Fair Trade, human trafficking, modern day slavery, slavery, Southeast Asia, Sweat Free
Radioheads video for the song, “All I Need” looks at the parallel lives of a boy in a western, comfortable situation, which we would consider normal and healthy, and a boy in a southeast Asian country, making the other boys shoes. It’s incredible to see the many resources available, and the many news articles and [...]
Girls for Sale by Nicholas Kristof
Posted: May 9, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: human trafficking, modern day slavery, prostitution, Southeast Asia
This article, another written by Nicholas Kristof (subscribe to his blog! http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/) back in 2004, found through purchasing the time of a prostitute that she was actually a slave. Through their time, she admitted that the life she was living was hell, and why wouldn’t she want to leave. In my experience in Pattaya and [...]
