Human trafficking
Governments called to account on human trafficking
Thursday, June 17th, 2010BANGKOK, 17 June 2010 (IRIN) – Southeast Asian governments added to the US State Department’s human trafficking watch list must bolster efforts to prosecute and convict traffickers, activists say.
Thailand, Vietnam and Laos all slipped in their efforts over the past year to tackle human trafficking, according to the US State Department’s latest Trafficking in Persons [...]
Human trafficking ring busted
Friday, April 2nd, 2010AFP DILI July 6, 2009 – POLICE in East Timor have arrested 10 members of an alleged human trafficking ring who brought women into the tiny country as sex workers, the United Nations mission and police said on Monday.
The suspects, most of them Chinese nationals, were arrested in a raid on a bar in the [...]
Tackling human trafficking
Friday, April 2nd, 2010IRIN
DILI, 4 February 2009 (IRIN) – Human trafficking is a growing problem in Timor-Leste, but despite an increase in the number of potential victims identified, there has not been a single conviction.
Timorese and foreign nationals are trafficking people for sexual exploitation, forced labour and agricultural work, said Heather Komenda, counter-trafficking programme manager for the International [...]