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• in Sports
  Stage Set for Sex Tourism to Flourish during Commonwealth Games, New Delhi
  Like all other international sports events, "Commonwealth Games 2010" is also going to be a good opportunity for “Sex Tourism.” Can government stop it?
  by vijji / on Aug 21, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “trafficking”

 

• Robert Hormats Takes Rhino Poaching Issue To South Africa

  
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  The U.S. Department of State has long considered wildlife trafficking to be a critical conservation issue. However, wildlife trafficking and poaching have exploded in the past several years into a large-scale, commercial illicit enterprise with increasing involvement by transnational criminal groups.Robert D. ...
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• Video of Sex Work as Work: some ideas on labour policy and organising

  
  Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex — Authority: 119
  Last month I spoke at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, held in Liberty Tower on the Liffey. There was some resistance to my insistence on sticking to the programme from a couple of audience members during the Q&A, but I was firm. I had been invited to talk about sex work as work for 30 minutes, [...] [[ This is a ...
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• Lawyers treatment of Oxford abuse ring victim prompts call for reform

  
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  Campaigners demand urgent shake-up of court procedure after seven barristers cross-examined a girl every day for three weeks in Oxford child-grooming case "I want to ask you once more why you are telling lies?" demands defence barrister Tayyab Khan. He is cross-examining a witness on her evidence relating to the ...
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• Couple Shot Dead at Home in a Favela

  
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  Three gunmen stormed a house in Favela da Portelinha, located in the Cidade Universitária area of Maceió, state of Alagoas, Brazil and killed a married couple that lived there. Ana Lúcia da Silva sustained fatal headshot wounds and died on the spot, her husband Gordo was also shot in the head, but showed vital ...
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• In 2000 the Dutch legalized prostitution

  
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  “Twelve years on, and we can now see the results of this experiment. Rather than afford better protection for the women, it has simply increased the market. Rather than confine the brothels to a discrete (and avoidable) part of the city, the sex industry has spilt out all over Amsterdam — including on-street. ...
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• Drugs, Al Qaeda, FARC, and arming the rebels

  
  Money Jihad — Authority: 568
  Mounting evidence suggests that weapons given to Libyan militants in the rebellion against Qaddafi were subsequently leveraged to purchase cocaine from FARC for follow-on distribution to the same European countries that helped arm the rebels in the first place.  No lessons will be learned from this fiasco, as it’s ...
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• Dangers found in lack of safety oversight for Medicare drug benefit

  
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  Ten years ago, a sharply divided Congress decided to pour billions of dollars into subsidizing the purchase of drugs by elderly and disabled Americans. The initiative, the biggest expansion of Medicare since its creation in 1965, proved wildly popular. It now serves more than 35 million people, delivering critical ...
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• An American Horror, Right Next Door

  
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  Human trafficking for the sex industry is a lot more common than you think, and the victims are often minors. This is an unimaginable horror that plagues our society, and thanks to a shortage of mainstream, national reporting, stays in the shadows. “Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as ...
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• Norwich Woman Sentenced to More Than Six Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking of a Minor

  
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  David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that Dana Rivera, 23, of Norwich, was sentenced this week by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by seven years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor. ...
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• Justice Minister Berhan Hailu sacked after MPs rebuke

  
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  (Daniel Berhane) Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegne dismissed his Justice Minister on Friday. The reason for the dismissal of Justice Minister Berhan Hailu is said to be poor performance, according to unofficial sources. This comes a day after the Minister was severely criticized by Members of Parliament (MPs) last ...
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• The Blood of the Poor

  
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• Why We Do What We Do–A Guest Post by the Spark Collective

  
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  If you’re like me, you may go unaware of others’ needs that exist outside of your daily routine. You would like to know. You would like to help. And then, you read an article about human trafficking, see a video about starving children, hear a friend talk about abuse and depression, watch a news clip on people ...
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• When Fiction and Reality Collide

  
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  by Sasscer HillAuthor of the Nikki Latrelle mysteriesWhen I heard a recording of Amanda Berry’s desperate 911 plea for help, I wept for this girl who was abducted, torn from her family, and abused for ten years. I’ve watched every episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, I saw the 2005 documentary Human ...
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• SEX SLAVERY AND THERE IS EVEN A SHOW ABOUT IT ON TV

  
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  SEX SLAVERY IS ALL OVER AMERICA NOW THERE ARE TEAMS OF MEN AND CHILDREN AND UNDERGROUND CELLS OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND IT’S HORRIFIC AND I HAVE NIGHTMARES ABOUT IT SOMETIMES AND I HAVE NO KIDS BUT I HAVE A LOT OF ANGER TOWARDS RAPISTS , MURDERERS, PEDOPHILES AND NOW KIDNAPPERS. ONE ...
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• Rescuing victims of sex-trafficking as child pornography in India rises

  
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  WNN Features (WNN) Calcutta, West Bengal, INDIA, SOUTH ASIA: “It is estimated that 200,000 Bangladeshi children have been trafficked for sexual exploitation through the borders of [Indias] West Bengal and Assam States,” says a report from ECPAT International, which is working today to end child prostitution, child ...
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• Baltimore police officer charged with human trafficking

  
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  Maryland State Police have arrested a Baltimore police officer and a woman he lives with on prostitution charges. Thirty-one-year-old Lamin Manneh, a probationary police officer, was arrested Thursday. He was charged with human trafficking and prostitution. Troopers with the Child Recovery Unit found an escort ad on a ...
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• Baltimore police officer, wife arrested for prostitution, human trafficking

  
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  Maryland State Police arrested a 31-year-old Baltimore City police officer and his 19-year-old wife on Thursday night on prostitution and human trafficking charges. Taken into police custody were Lamin Manneh, 31, and Marissa Braun, 19, of Baltimore. After consulting with the Anne Arundel County State’s ...
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• U.S., Russia finding room to talk

  
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  MOSCOW — Even as the chill in relations between the United States and Russia continues, the two countries are at least talking to each other more these days. With Secretary of State John F. Kerry and FBI director Robert Mueller both having come here this week for substantive discussions, Russian officials seem to ...
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• Iran: Four hanged for drug trafficking

  
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  Iran Human Rights, May 9: Four prisoners were hanged in Semnan Province (northern Iran) early this morning reported the Iranian state media. According to the Iranian state broadcasting one prisoner was hanged in the prison of Semnan early this morning May 9. The prisoner who was not identified by name was ...
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• Man beheaded for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia

  
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  Public execution in Saudi Arabia 38 people executed in kingdom this year Riyadh: Saudi authorities on Wednesday beheaded a Pakistani man found guilty of smuggling drugs into the kingdom, the interior ministry said. The man was caught attempting to smuggle heroin hidden inside his stomach, the ministry said. He ...
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