Topic: Child Abuse Crimes
US senators want curbs on 'sex slave' traffic
April 13, 2000 ·
WASHINGTON-Two senators want to see life sentences imposed on people who bring young children into the country to work as ‘sex slaves’. Democratic senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Sam Brownback of Kansas plan separate bills aimed at cracking down on an illegal industry the CIA said brings 50,000 women and girls into this country […]
Read More...Anti-pedophile video aired
April 12, 2000 ·
GENEVA – Swissair will show an anti-child-sex video on certain routes, the company announced last week.
Read More...Vatican Calls For Action Against Prostitution
April 12, 2000 ·
VATICAN CITY, APR 12 (ZENIT.org).- The Vatican called on the international community to intervene against prostitution and other exploitation of women, children, and illegal finmigrants.
Read More...Global Plan Urged Against 'Slave Trade'
April 12, 2000 ·
MANILA – The United States has called for a global plan of action to combat the multi billion-dollar slave trade of women and children for the sex industry or bonded labor, which officials say snares at least one million victims every year.
Read More...Stopping sex-slave trade in the global economy
April 2, 2000 ·
Official U.S. estimates are that 2 million people, including 500,000 children, are being forced into prostitution.
A silent but horrific practice degrading women and children is, proliferating around the world. Known as sexual trafficking, it involves a systematic effort to kidnap females, many of whom are preteens, into forced prostitution.
Read More...UN Urges Action on Millions of Asian Trafficking Victims
March 29, 2000 ·
BANGKOK – Nine million people have been enslaved in the global sex trade or forced to work in appalling conditions by powerful crime syndicates active in human trafficking, according to a new United Nations report.
Read More...Internet a 'Safe Haven' for Child Abusers
March 26, 2000 ·
BRUSSELS – Too little is being done to combat pedophilia on the Internet, according to participants to an international conference in Brussels on child abuse.
Read More...5-month-old girl Abducted, Raped
March 8, 2000 ·
TACLOBAN, CITY – couple Eduardo and Alicia Villamor were both full of excitement as the made preparations for the baptism of their five-month-old girl on March 4.
Read More...Young Girls Sold for Sex, Flown to US
March 4, 2000 ·
Filipino girls – unless accompanied by their parents – will not be allowed to leave the country following reports that many of them are being sold to Amercian men through tour packages.
Read More...Shift in Sex Tourism
March 4, 2000 ·
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The sexual exploitation of girls and boys, largely by men from the United States, has reached alarming proportions in Central America, according to children’s rights advocates who say the region is now a priority in their struggle against child prostitution and pornography.
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