UNITED STATES

Details Emerge in Human Trafficking Case in San Antonio

You want to marry a rich man who will buy you anything you want? How's $600 to buy what you'd like simply for accompanying men on trips? more >>

MySA.com

AFRICA

Trafficking of African Women is Thriving

Trafficking of women from west Africa to Europe for sexual exploitation is thriving amid inaction from African governments. more >>

IOL

THAILAND

The Misery of Male Slavery

Amid despair at the trafficking of women and children, men too are being treated as less than sub-human. more >>

The Nation

JAPAN

Modern-Day Comfort Women Face a Hell on Earth

Lee Ok-sun was 16 when she was grabbed off a dark street, tied up by two men and thrown into a truck with 5 other girls. more >>

Asia Sentinal

THAILAND

Course to Save Hilltribe Girls from Flesh Trade

Human trafficking has been inducted as a course in the school curriculum in some schools in the northern province of Chiang Rai to prevent hilltribe girls from being lured into the flesh trade. more >>

Bangkok Post

ISRAEL

Brothel Owner Sentenced to Five Years in Jail for Human Trafficking

A Haifa District Court on Sunday sentenced a brothel owner to five years in prison for human trafficking and pandering. more >>

Haaretz.com

THAILAND

Of Human Bondage

The girl was forced to work from 4am to midnight every day, serving 50-year-old Wipaporn Songmeesap and her family of six. more >>

Bangkok Post

WORLD

Human Smuggling and Trafficking in the era of Globalization

The increasing incidents of human smuggling and trafficking in the wake of the arrest of an MP belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party have become a major topic of discussion. more >>

ZNet

UNITED KINGDOM

Man Guilty of Human Trafficking

A 24-year-old man has been found guilty of trafficking two Brazilian women into the UK to make them work in a brothel. more >>

BBC News

SOMALIA

Human Smuggling and Human Trafficking in Somalia

Human smuggling continues unabated from the northeast coast of Puntland, Somalia, resulting in the death of hundreds of Ethiopians and Somalis. more >>

Reliefweb

MEXICO

Child Pornography and Human Trafficking: Cancun's Dark Side

A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them. more >>

Alternet

NEPAL

NGOs Concerned at Lack of Action to Release Child Soldiers

Local child protection agencies in Nepal are concerned over the lack of action to trace and release child soldiers in the country. more >>

Reuters

MALAYSIA

Foreign Workers Also Victims of Human Trafficking

Hundreds of foreign workers who are duped by agents and brought into the country are also victims of human trafficking. more >>

The New Strait Times Online

THAILAND

Child Laborers Toil in Thai Seafood Factories

Human rights groups say thousands of children and illegal Myanmar migrants are working in Thailand's $2 billion-a-year shrimp export industry, often in conditions little short of modern-day slavery. more >>

Reuters

UNITED STATES

When the American Dream Leads to Servitude

Martina Okeke, 68, says that she was fooled into coming to America as a servant by a family on Staten Island that refused for 12 years to pay her. more >>

The New York Times

UNITED KINGDOM

Migrants 'Deceived and Exploited'

Migrant workers are being lured to Britain by deception and are forming a new exploited underclass. more >>

BBC News

MACEDONIA

Police Finds Another 11 Girls

9 Bulgarian, 1 Serb and 1 Macedonian girl, suspected of having been forced in to prostitution, were found in a night club. more >>

Makfaxonline

UNITED STATES

Las Vegas: Growing Hub For Sex Trafficking

Authorities say Las Vegas is one of the worst cities in the world for sex trafficking. more >>

LasVegasNOW.com

UNITED STATES

Across the Border, but into a Locked Room

Inside the single-family home, they say they found eight illegal immigrants imprisoned in a back bedroom. more >>

voiceofsandiego.org

MALAYSIA

Malaysian Gov't Presents First Bill Against Human Trafficking

The Malaysian government has presented its first anti-human trafficking bill to provide the legislation necessary to fight trafficking in human beings. more >>

People's Daily Online