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January 2009
- Brazil Rescues 4,600 Slaves in 2008
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jan 2, 09 7:24 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Brazil freed more than 4,600 slaves this year after storming a record number of remote farms, the Guardian reports. Often teaming up with federal police, the government's anti-slavery task force raided 255 farms, but advocates say thousands of poor are still being trapped into debt slavery. "It is a very sad situation that leaves you feeling impotent," said activist Leonardo Sakamoto. More »
October 2008
- FBI Sex-Ring Bust Frees 47 Kids
  
  Washington Post | 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 the children appear on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's registry. More »
- San Francisco May Soon Be Hooker Haven
  
  Associated Press | 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 prosecuting anyone for prostitution. More »
- Smugglers Force 150 Overboard Off Yemen
  
  Reuters | Oct 11, 08 8:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - At least 100 people, mainly Somalis, are missing and feared dead after being forced off a people-smuggling boat near Yemen, Reuters reports. The boat had been carrying 150 passengers when it left Somalia to cross the Gulf of Aden nearly three days ago, said survivors. Some 47 people managed to swim to a beach. More »
August 2008
- Foreign Adoption Getting Harder
  
  USA Today | 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 time, China, Russia, and South Korea have begun encouraging more domestic adoptions. More »
June 2008
- Afghan Sex Trade Thrives Despite Taboos
  
  Associated Press | Jun 15, 08 5:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sex is selling in Afghanistan despite Islamic laws that make prostitution punishable by death, the AP reports. At least 900 women do it in Kabul, but residents admit only to brothels full of Chinese prostitutes; to be a native Afghan hooker is "very, very bad," one expert said. But 30 years of war and poverty inspire many to try, despite their ignorance of condoms and AIDS. More »
April 2008
- 30 women 'saved from sex slavery'
  
  Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | Apr 21, 08
  
  Thirty women were rescued from sex slavery yesterday in a crackdown on internet brothels involving Norfolk police.
- Romanian and international NGOs work together to fight human trafficking
  
  Reuters | Apr 21, 08
  
  Over 40 representatives of national and international NGOs, Churches and local authorities dedicated to combating human trafficking came together to find common approaches to identifying the most effective trafficking prevention campaigns, the most efficient and coherent legislation and the best counselling and reintegration strategies for the victims of trafficking in the Romanian capital Bucharest recently.
- Special Report: Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
  
  The Gazette | Apr 21, 08
  
  Stories The Gazette published in late 2005 and in 2006 from court cases about an Iowa prostitution and human trafficking ring involving a 13-year-old suburban Minneapolis girl led to a nagging question: How could such crimes flourish in predominantly rura
- Six Thais charged with human trafficking in Britain
  
  AFP | Apr 21, 08
  
  According to a statement released by Scotland Yard, a total of nine people were charged with conspiracy to traffic woman within Britain for the purpose of sexual exploitation, conspiracy to control prostitution for gain, and money laundering.
- 6 Thai nationals to be charged in migrant deaths in truck
  
  Associated Press | Apr 21, 08
  
  Prosperous Thailand is a magnet for people from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar who take menial and dangerous jobs shunned by Thais, and face exploitation in their efforts to earn a living. More than 1 million migrants from Myanmar are believed to be working in Thailand.
- Police raids over online brothels
  
  BBC | Apr 20, 08
  
  It is alleged the network operates by trafficking women from abroad, the majority from Thailand, and then coercing them to work as prostitutes.
- Police arrest 15 in online vice raids
  
  Reuters | Apr 20, 08
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Police have arrested 15 people in an operation to break up an internet prostitution and sex-trafficking gang, the Metropolitan Police said on Sunday.Codenamed Gib, the operation, which
- 54 Burmese Migrant Workers Suffocate in Border Crossing
  
  Reuters | Apr 10, 08 6:54 AM CDT