Topic: Human Trafficking
SOUTH ASIA – MAIN ISSUE
May 12, 2011 · By Sutthida Malikaew
The trafficking of children for sexual purposes is an immense problem in South Asian countries. Bangladesh and Nepal are the dominant source countries for trafficking within the region. Estimates vary, but a safe estimation is that several thousand Bangladeshi girls are trafficked out of the country each year. Destination countries include India, Pakistan and the […]
Read More...EASTERN EUROPE – MAIN ISSUE
May 12, 2011 ·
The trafficking of children for sexual purposes is reaching alarming dimensions in Eastern Europe. The most worrying fact is that the trafficking is carried out by well-organised and powerful international criminal networks. Furthermore, recent reports indicate that Eastern European women are being marketed and sold over the internet by criminal gangs which then smuggle them […]
Read More...The Lost Son: Trafficking, Children and Violence
May 12, 2011 · By Jo de Linde, ECPAT France
Published in By Jo de Linde, ECPAT France (May 1999) The film, The Lost Son, by Chris Menges was given its preview in Paris on April 20, 1999, It is the story of a private detective, Xavier Lombard played by Daniel Auteuil who is is hired by a rich family to find Leon, their son, […]
Read More...Coersion the Key Element Behind Trafficking
May 12, 2011 ·
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) Internationally, there is no consensus on the term “trafficking”. In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly came near to a comprehensive definition in its stipulation that “trafficking” is the “illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national and international borders, largely from developing countries and […]
Read More...Serving Affluent Businessmen and Visitors
May 12, 2011 · , ECPAT international
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) With regard to China, the phenomenon of trafficking is a growing concern. In a UNICEFbacked situation analysis of children and women in China in 1992, it was noted that “occasional abduction of womenandchildrenhasbeenreported to still occur in some rural areas, prompting widespread education against”the practice […]
Read More...Laws Regarding Trafficking of Women and Children in China
May 12, 2011 · By Vitit Muntarbhorn, The Trafficking in Women and Children in the Mekong Sub-region
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) With regards to China, legal measures emanate from the 1991 decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress which called for action to criminalise the following: abduction for sale of women and children; kidnap of women and children, kidnap for purposes of blackmail; […]
Read More...Children Who Are the Victims of Trafficking
May 12, 2011 ·
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) The most disadvantaged regions of the country, where poverty, unemployment, underemployment, landlessness and armed conflict combine to deny many children and their families the prospect of a secure future, are natural target areas for unscrupulous recruitment agencies. These agencies operate particularly in Samr-Leyte,Negros, Bicol, Cebu […]
Read More...Published in Child Workers of Asia
May 12, 2011 ·
Published in Child Workers of Asia (April – September 1999) Internet ‘being used to prop paedophilia’ Agence France-presse The Nation, Wednessday, March 25, 1998 MANILA – The world’s police forces are floundering as transcontinental operators peddle impoverished third children via cyberspace in the fast global-trading environment, experts said yesterday. Groups are “subverting” the Internet to […]
Read More...Gov’t steps up efforts vs human trafficking
April 20, 2011 · By Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
MANILA (UPDATED) – In its continuing efforts to combat human trafficking, the Department of Justice (DOJ) inked today a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with human rights organization International Justice Mission (IJM) outlining areas of collaboration to stamp out this form of modern slavery. The 7-page MOA was signed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and […]
Read More...Most Trafficked Victims Worldwide Sold For Sex
December 20, 2009 ·
BAGUIO CITY (December 12, 2009) Most victims of human trafficking around the world are being sold for sex, the Asia against Child Trafficking (Asia ACTs) claimed Saturdayon the occasion of the Day against Trafficking being celebrated around Asia and throughout the globe.
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