It Happens Here…
Today the Centre for Social Justice released a report “It Happens Here” detailing what they call a ‘shameful’ failure to address human trafficking in the UK. This report calls for a more victim centred approach and comprehensive training of professionals. If this has caught your attention and you want to know how you can respond … Read more
Balancing migration with prevention and detection of trafficking
This past week, a British woman was jailed for six months and ordered to pay £3,000 compensation to a 21-year old Tanzanian woman who she kept as a slave in her home. Read the whole story here. The young lady was not brought to the UK illegally and in fact she entered the country legally … Read more
UN Advisor slams government’s new trafficking strategy
“The UK government is taking the country’s anti-trafficking efforts in a dangerous direction, if its new strategy on tackling human trafficking published today is anything to go by.” This is the view of Steve Chalke MBE, founder of the charity STOP THE TRAFFIK and UN.GIFT Special Advisor on Community Action against Human Trafficking. Steve said, “The … Read more
GLOBAL News Round 25.3.2011
Trinidad and Tobago The Slave Trade Act was passed 204 years ago today. In T&T they are commemorating the day with the inaugural celebration of Human Trafficking Awareness Day. In recognition of the day, the Caribbean Umbrella Body for Restorative Behaviour (Curb) has launched an online network which they hope will help end human trafficking and … Read more
UK opts in to EU Directive!
Good news! Today, the UK government decided to opt in to the EU Directive on human trafficking, which requires awareness-raising campaigns and education programmes. More good news! STOP THE TRAFFIK has been, and will continue to, do just what they are asking for! We are raising awareness and educating our communities not only in the … Read more
GLOBAL News Round 12.3.2011
Jamaica One man: It is rare that victims of trafficking are willing to come forward and help the police but one Indian man has. He became a victim of human trafficking by the hands of the company previously employed for and has stepped up to help the police in Kingston to fight forced labour. After … Read more
Global News 13/01/2011
Ohio, US The manager of Starbucks in Cleveland, Ohio said he was unaware of what was going on. Staff swiping a few dollars from the till for themselves? Giving their favourite customers and extra marshmallow? Customers writing graffiti on the toilet door? No – on all three counts. He was unaware that when a man, … Read more
Diplomatic Immunity – Getting Away With It…
As a child I spent a few years languishing in an annoyingly posh primary school feeling a bit out of place. With a trumped-up school comes a trumped-up version of the typical school bully. I can’t remember his name, but this nine-year-old was extremely well-versed in international criminal law, which he used to devastatingly good … Read more
Global Newsround 10/09/2010
Honolulu – a company victimized nearly 900 Thai workers, more than double the 400 cited in a grand jury indictment that alleges forced labour at farms in Hawaii and on the mainland. The CEO of the company that provided the workers has had bail set at $1million. Belfast – a crime gang controlled by a Scottish … Read more
NEWSROUND 2/7/2010
Five Ukrainians charged in human trafficking ring in US Five Ukrainians were charged in Washington with running a human trafficking ring that forced migrants to clean US chain stores such as Target and Walmart. The victims, mainly young Ukrainians, were subjected to rape and other physical violence, slave-like conditions, debt bondage (ranging from 10,000 to … Read more
Newsround 18/06/10
US Media Coverage of human trafficking admonished Examining the role of the media in exposing human trafficking, UN Diplomats and researchers urged journalists not to dwell on the sensationalist and salacious details of sex trafficking when reporting on the fight against human trafficking. A senior fellow for Investigative Journalism says “when I met my first … Read more
News Weekly 11/06/10
UN Calls for a STOP TO TRAFFIKING as Pinoy Victims reach 80,000 With 80,000 victims in the Philippines, the UN pushes for immediate solutions to deal with the “trafficking chain.” This marks the global celebration of International Migrant Workers’ Day. Philippines is the 3rd largest source of migrants after China and India, with over 8 … Read more
GLOBAL NEWSROUND 04/06/10
GLOBAL NEWSROUND 04/06/10 CORRUPTION IN MEXICO: IMMIGRATION AGENTS CHARGED WITH TRAFFICKING 13 former Mexican National Migration agents are pending trial on human-trafficking charges. They were arrested in March at Cancun airport for allegedly belonging to a ring that brought Chinese into the country via the Beijing-Italy-Cuba-Cancun route. The Caribbean resort city of Cancun is a … Read more
Global Newsround 27/05/10
RYDER CUP: SEX TRAFFICKING WARNING The increase in trafficking around major sporting events has led to an increased risk of women and children trafficked to Wales for the sex trade for the Ryder Cup golf tournament in Newport from 1-3 October. A new report called “Knowing No Boundaries” said that Greece had licensed a large … Read more
Global Newsround 21/05/2010
ONLINE PROTEST MAKES CHOCOLATE GIANT CUT ITS DEFORESTATION FOOTPRINT STOP THE TRAFFIK thinks the Greenpeace campaign -that has seen Nestlé succumb to eco-friendly palm oil- is a great illustration of what community action can achieve through the power of new media campaigns by NGOs, which can galvanise multinationals in a way that was not possible … Read more
What will the government approach to human trafficking be in 2009?
In November 2008, the announcement that London’s Metropolitan Police’s Human Trafficking team would have its Home Office funding cut from April 2009 represented a major setback to official efforts to fight human trafficking in the UK. The Human Trafficking Team was young, set up as recently as March 2007 and the news of its closure came soon after the … Read more
Who is fighting human trafficking?
On October 8 STOP THE TRAFFIK Belgium helped the ALDE (Alliance for Liberals and Democrats for Europe) organize ‘Who is fighting human trafficking, who is not?’, a seminar that focused on the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. The first European treaty in this field, it was put into place … Read more
