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According to CNN, traffickers are taking advantage of the current instability in Haiti to take children and organs out of the country. Many children have been orphaned and the massive displacement of people, in makeshift dwellings, make them extremely vulnerable:
Haiti is trying to locate displaced children and register them so they can either be [...]
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The Guardian reports on the current state of life in Southern Sudan. While the SPLA are said to be disarming, peace is threatened from all sides by poverty, disease, interference from neighbouring territories, and the arrival of Uganda’s LRA. People are displaced and children are stolen and traded as commodities:
“We [...]
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A recent report released by the US State Department reports an increase in Trafficking in Persons that correlates with the global financial crisis. It states that:
“A striking global demand for labor and a growing supply of workers willing to take ever greater risks for economic opportunities seem a recipe for increased forced labor cases [...]
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As part of their recently launched Exit Campaign, MTV have released a documentary about Human Trafficking entitled “Inhuman Traffic” and narrated by Angelina Jolie. Here’s part 1:
The rest can be viewed here.
(Source: MTV Exit)
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The South African Government has recently published a bill that will form the foundations of future legislation on Human Trafficking. Until now there has been no legislation specifically dealing with trafficking:
“human traffickers could only be charged with kidnapping, or, when relevant, assault and murder. Women and children are most vulnerable, most [...]
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Six weeks after Stop the Traffik organized their March on Mars, the chocolate giant has committed to make incremental changes towards producing chocolate without slave labour. According to a recent update, Mars’ global range will be free from human trafficking by 2020:
As a first step, one of Mars’ leading brands, Galaxy bars, in the [...]
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