Human Trafficking News and Updates
As the police we urge the members of the community to be vigilant for false recruitment. A human trafficking awareness campaign was held in Soshanguve recently. Soshanguve police teamed up with the CPF and other stakeholders to host the event at the Glory Ministry Church on Thursday. Constable Portia Sebone said the event updated the community on how […]
The State Board of Education has unanimously approved a new rule requiring instruction in child trafficking prevention for students in grades K-12. With this approval, Florida will be the first state in the nation to address the need for instruction in child trafficking prevention. The new rule also establishes procedures for school districts to plan […]
Source: @SABCNewsOnline Police in Mpumalanga have rescued 50 suspected victims of human trafficking from various houses in eMalahleni. This after a raid was conducted on Saturday morning to rid the area of drugs and prostitution. The women claim to have been kept against their will and forced to do sex work. About 150 people were taken […]
By Tanasia Kenney A popular South Carolina promoter and disc jockey appeared in court Monday on human trafficking and child sex crimes charges, Florence station WBTW reported. Jason Roger Pope, 42, remains in jail without bond after withdrawing his request for a bond hearing. Pope’s attorney, Mary Parham, didn’t give a reason for the withdrawal. The local […]
A Houston family is sharing their heartbreak after their teenage daughter ended her own life. Family members say 15-year-old Letty Serrano commit suicide Saturday — saying she could no longer live with her pain. Two years ago, she disappeared. She told her family she was drugged and sold into a sex trafficking ring. Days later […]
BY NEWS STAFF Police across Ontario and Quebec say they’ve dismantled a sophisticated human trafficking ring run by an organized crime group that allegedly forced dozens of women and underage girls to work in the sex trade. On Wednesday, police in York Region announced more than 300 charges after 34 search warrants were executed last week […]
Children, young girls – some as young as 9 years old – are being bought and sold for sex in America. By JOHN W. WHITEHEAD Children, young girls – some as young as 9 years old – are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years […]
By DUNCAN GUY People need to realise that indulging in pornography and buying sex fuels the market for human trafficking and the cycle of abuse. This is according to ex-Hawks investigator Marcel van der Watt who is now a Unisa academic specialising in human trafficking. “People using these services care little whether they involve victims […]
Highest number of calls received originate from Gauteng and the Western Cape. By Roodepoort Record Photo: Pixabay. For illustrative purposes. The shocking number of missing persons reports that cross our journalists’ desks has encouraged the Record to investigate human trafficking, with a specific focus on the West Rand. Many of these missing persons are children. […]
By Mayukh Saha / Truth Theory In the 1990s, Nepali native Anuradha Koirala would walk by Kathmandu’s Pashupatinath Temple every morning. And every morning she would meet the women who were begging on those streets. When she struck up a conversation with them, she realized that they were all survivors of gender-based violence. This hit home, because she […]
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by Marcel van der Watt (John McCann/M&G) CRIME The recently released 2019 United States state department Trafficking in Persons report ranked South Africa on the tier two watch list for the second consecutive year. This ranking is not new for South Africa, which occupied the same position from 2005 to 2008. The South African government has made […]
The suspects allegedly kidnapped three Ethiopian teenagers and contacted their parents with demands for ransoms of R50,000 for each of them. Picture: Supplied JOHANNESBURG – The Hawks have arrested five men in Brixton and Mayfair on suspicion of human trafficking. The suspects allegedly kidnapped three Ethiopian teenagers. Their parents, who live in the North West, […]
The number of young African girls trafficked to Europe for prostitution has increased by almost 600 percent in the first half of this year. In its report, which was released last week in Italian, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warns that the sexual exploitation of African migrants in Europe has reached disturbing levels, with the majority […]
Anuradha Koirala works to help exploited Nepali women and children sold into sex slavery. Embed from Getty Images Why Global Citizens Should CareSex trafficking takes agency, education opportunities, and hope for a better future away from young girls around the world. Governments can help solve this issue by adopting and enforcing human trafficking laws and […]
Virginia Roberts claims she romped with the Duke of York when she was 17 after he plied her with vodka at London’s Tramp nightclub. Roberts’ dramatic allegations came in an interview tonight with NBC’s Dateline along with five more of the shamed tycoon’s accusers. The royal has vehemently denied the accusations against him, branding them […]
by Fabio Teixeira | @ffctt | Thomson Reuters Foundation RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Countries and companies need to share financial data if they hope to stop human trafficking, connecting governments and companies that often do not work together to fight crime, a top Interpol director said on Wednesday. Encouraging the private sector to share […]
Five million people are victims of sex trafficking today, but very few of them receive much-needed help and support. by Agnes Odhiambo & Heather Barr Human trafficking is a booming business. The recent arrest of Jeffrey Epstein in the US on charges of trafficking and sexual exploitation of girls is just one example of an urgent problem […]
Six life sentences and an additional 129 years imprisonment was meted out to a Nigerian national for human trafficking and related charges after he kept three young girls hostage to work as sex slaves. Judge Natvarlil Ranchod, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, on Wednesday cited experts as saying that human trafficking is […]