Growth of slavery worldwide is very real challenge by E. Benjamin Skinner (author of “A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery”). Moments after Tatiana first arrived in Amsterdam from Eastern Europe, she learned that the au pair job that her ”boyfriend” had promised her was a ruse. The stranger that met her at the [...]
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Foreign diplomats are able to bring in household workers under a special immigration category. However, household workers have no protections under U.S. labor laws, are not recognized as “employees,” which leaves many subject to hidden abuse and enslavement. This story highlights the problem with this special, unregulated category. read more | digg story
As is common in areas where disasters have hit, children have become vulnerable to becoming victims of sex trafficking. An official is quoted as asying this area is “ripe for opportunists that may want to bring in human trafficking victims.” However, this article does not identify what steps are being taken to address the situation. [...]
No More Slavery at Third Thursday Street Fest, Willimantic
Posted: June 21, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Community Education, Events, human trafficking events, Made By Survivors, What you can do!
This past Thursday, June 19, a few of us from No More Slavery worked at a table at the Third Thursday Street Fest. The Paul & Lisa Program were there with us, and were able to tell people about their program, which is located in West Haven, CT. We brought information about human trafficking and [...]
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.
