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human trafficking stories: 21 news summaries

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NC Police
Find Body of Missing Girl, 5

Mom was charged with trafficking after Shaniya Davis spotted with man

Nov 16, 09 1:13 PM CST
(AP) - Searchers found the body of a missing 5-year-old off a road today, ending a weeklong search for the girl, whose mother stands accused of offering her for sex, police said. A Fayetteville Police spokeswoman says that searchers found Shaniya Davis' body southeast of Sanford in central North Carolina. Two people... More »

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kidnapping • North Carolina • missing child • human trafficking • child prostitution • child murder • Shaniya Davis • Shaniya Davis found • Bradley Lockhart • Mario Andrette McNeill • Antoinette Davis • shaniya davis found dead

Journos: Koreans Grabbed Us on Chinese Soil

Laura Ling and Euna Lee describe their capture ordeal

Sep 2, 09 1:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The two American journalists detained for months in North Korea were on Chinese soil when they were seized by border guards, they write in Current.com. Laura Ling and Euna Lee say they were reporting on the human trafficking of North Korean refugees in China when their guide briefly brought... More »

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China • North Korea • Current TV • journalist • human trafficking • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

(Newser) - Hundreds of women marched through Kathmandu yesterday to protest a government plan to offer $600 to anybody who marries a widow, the Independent reports. The government says the scheme will help overcome social stigmas attached to widowhood, but the women say it is insulting and warn that it will lead... More »

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women • protests • Nepal • human trafficking • widows • women's issues

Maddy Suspect Asked About Her 'New Daughter'

Calls flood in after request for tips about Australian woman

Aug 7, 09 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Private investigators working for Madeleine McCann's parents have received “hundreds of calls” from people with information about a woman who may be involved in the child’s disappearance, the Telegraph reports. A witness said the woman, described as a Victoria Beckham lookalike with an Australian accent, was pacing and... More »

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Australia • Spain • Madeleine McCann • Algarve • Portugal • Gerry McCann • Kate McCann • private investigator • Barcelona • human trafficking • Praia da Luz • missing person

(Newser) - The Taliban is buying children as young as 7 and turning them into suicide bombers, the Washington Times reports. The going rate is $7,000 to $14,000, a huge amount in Pakistan, where where the average income is $2,600. Pakistani and US officials lay blame for the... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • suicide bomber • children • drones • human trafficking • Baitullah Mehsud • brainwashing

OPINION

 Madonna's Adoption 
 Only Hurts Malawi 

'Misguided' Material Mom should use international adoption as a 'last resort'

Jun 18, 09 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - By adopting Mercy James, Madonna has actually endangered other Malawian orphans, writes Anna Feuchtwang in the Daily Mail. “Corrupt adoption agencies and child traffickers, newly alerted to the ease with which Malawian laws can be circumvented, are even now planning to target the country,” writes Feuchtwang, chief executive... More »

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entertainment • adoption • Malawi • celebrity • orphan • Madonna • human trafficking • foreign adoptions • Mercy James

Cops Bust Dad Who Married Off Girl, 14, for Beer

Arranged marriage legit in Mexico, but trafficking minors in Calif.

Jan 14, 09 6:24 AM CST
(Newser) - Something got lost in translation when a California man arranged for his 14-year-old daughter to marry an 18-year-old neighbor in exchange for cash, beer, and meat, reports the San Jose Mercury News. When the bridegroom failed to pay the promised $16,000, 160 cases of beer, and six cases... More »

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California • arranged marriage • human trafficking • juvenile • dowry • Mexican-Americans

Foreign
Workers
Held in Iraq

Contractor kept 1,000 Asian laborers 3 months in warehouses

Dec 3, 08 7:34 PM CST
(Newser) - About 1,000 foreign workers brought to Iraq with the promise of lucrative jobs have been living for 3 months in Baghdad warehouses under poor sanitary conditions and in possible violation of US military rules, McClatchy reports. A Kuwaiti company that subcontracts with KBR, formerly Haliburton, brought the men from... More »

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Iraq • US military • Halliburton • foreign labor • human trafficking • KBR • subcontractor • Najlaa

 Holloway 
 Suspect: 
 I Sold Her 

Dutch man admits selling American teen on Aruba in 2005, then switches stories

Nov 25, 08 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - After claiming—then denying—he dumped Natalee Holloway’s body in the Caribbean, Joran van der Sloot confessed to Fox News he watched her being hauled away on a vessel after selling the drunk teen in 2005 to a Venezuelan man seeking “a blonde girl.” The interview, which... More »

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Venezuela • Natalee Holloway • Aruba • missing child • human trafficking • Joran van der Sloot • missing person

 FBI Sex-Ring Bust 
 Frees 47 Kids 

Multi-agency crackdown snares more than 600 adults involved in '21st century slavery'

Oct 28, 08 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - A huge nationwide crackdown has smashed apart a dozen child prostitution rings and rescued 47 juveniles, the Washington Post reports. The joint effort from the FBI, Justice Department, and local law enforcement agencies led to the arrest of more than 600 adults in 29 cities, including 73 pimps. Ten of... More »

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FBI • crime • missing child • human trafficking • child prostitution • prostitution ring • pimp

San Francisco May Soon Be Hooker Haven

Proposed law would ban cops from
arresting prostitutes

Oct 22, 08 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - San Francisco could soon become the first major city in the US where prostitutes won't be arrested, the AP reports. The city votes next month on the controversial Proposition K to decriminalize sex work. The measure won't actually legalize the trade, but will forbid local law enforcement from investigating or... More »

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prostitution • San Francisco • human trafficking • prostitute • sex trade

Mexico Will Deport Cuban Migrants Headed for US

Crackdown aimed at drug, human trafficking

Oct 21, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico agreed yesterday to deport Cubans passing through the country to reach the US, the Los Angeles Times reports. Increased US patrols in the waters between Cuba and Florida have smugglers using land routes through Mexico to transport would-be immigrants. Mexican authorities have arrested 2,000 undocumented Cubans this year,... More »

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Mexico • Cuba • United States • illegal immigration • smuggler • drug cartel • human trafficking

Foreign Adoption
Getting Harder

Could be boon
for thousands in
US foster care

Aug 14, 08 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heightened awareness of child trafficking and improving economies abroad are making it harder for Americans to adopt foreign kids. US officials are taking a closer look at visa applications and discouraging adoptions from countries that don’t comply with a new international adoption agreement, USA Today reports. At the same... More »

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China • Russia • Africa • adoption • South Korea • Ethiopia • Liberia • human trafficking • foreign adoptions • foster homes

Hooker Sex Is Rape, London Ads Warn Johns

Trafficked women
aren't giving consent, campaign maintains

May 8, 08 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - British authorities are targeting men who pay for sex with a hard-hitting ad campaign comparing some instances to rape, Reuters reports. Because thousands of women trafficked into the country each year are forced into prostitution, there's nothing consensual about the sex they sell, the ads suggest. "Walk in a... More »

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prostitution • London • United Kingdom • rape • human trafficking • brothel • prostitute

54 Burmese Migrant Workers Suffocate in Border Crossing

They screamed an hour before driver halted

Apr 10, 08 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police yesterday discovered the bodies of 54 Burmese migrant workers who suffocated in a truck heading across the border to Thailand. Workers crammed in the 7-by-20-foot space, almost all women, say when they finally managed to alert the driver, he fled. Each worker paid $314 to be smuggled into Thailand,... More »

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immigration • illegal immigrant • Thailand • migrant workers • Myanmar • Burma • migrant labor • human trafficking

South Koreans Turn to Cambodia to Buy Wives

Government decries 'human trafficking' on rise after Vietnam crackdown

Mar 25, 08 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A clampdown on marriage brokers in Vietnam has made neighboring Cambodia the new destination for South Korean men seeking to buy wives, the AP reports. About 2,500 Cambodian women have married Koreans this way in the past four years in a process in which men choose from as many... More »

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Vietnam • South Korea • Asia • Cambodia • arranged marriage • human trafficking

Sex Slaves Win Cash Damages

Ruling could open floodgates of compensation for thousands of others

Dec 16, 07 12:46 PM CST
(Newser) - In a groundbreaking decision, Britain has awarded four women smuggled from eastern Europe to the UK and subjected by their captors to "forced prostitution, multiple rapes and beatings" more than £140,000. The decision, the first to consider false imprisonment and forced prostitution as categories for awarding damages,... More »

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China • Africa • prostitution • illegal immigrant • organized crime • smuggler • Britain • human trafficking • sex slave

Sweden Law Rids Streets
of 'Johns'

Crackdown on men soliciting prostitutes hailed as success

Nov 8, 07 7:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A Swedish law that penalizes men who solicit sex with prostitutes rather than the women themselves has been a huge success in cleaning up the streets and reducing human trafficking, proponents say. But Swedish sex workers see the ban as an undue burden on an already burdensome job and argue... More »

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prostitution • Sweden • Stockholm • human trafficking • prostitute

So Many Men, So Much Frustration

Asian gender gap will see millions without mates, stall economies

Nov 2, 07 8:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - A growing gender gap spells trouble for Asian markets, where scholars predict that a glut of men without partners—Chinese and Indian men will outnumber women by more than 20 million each in 2030—will have a cascade of unintended consequences, economic as well as social.  Sexual violence and... More »

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China • United Nations • India • Asia • human trafficking • gender gap • sexual violence

Voodoo Child Smugglers Busted in Netherlands

Young prostitutes
took mystic vows

Oct 25, 07 6:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dutch police have broken a child prostitution ring that used voodoo to control its young charges, authorities announced today. Authorities found missing Nigerian children prostituting themselves in France, Italy, and Spain, apparently obeying mystic vows given them by their kidnappers and voodoo shamans. Police have so far arrested dozens accused... More »

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prostitution • Nigeria • Amsterdam • child labor • smuggler • slavery • human trafficking • child pornography • child prostitution • prostitute

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