Human Trafficking in [UK Street Children in [UK] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [UK] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the first ten years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2009
The United Kingdom (UK) is a significant
destination and, to a lesser extent, transit country for women, children, and
men trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced
labor, primarily from Eastern Europe, Africa, the Balkans, and Asia
(principally China, Vietnam, and Malaysia). Some victims, including
UK-resident children, are also trafficked within the country. Migrant workers
are trafficked to the UK for forced labor in agriculture, construction, food
processing, domestic servitude, and food services. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Britain's
'invisible army' of African slaves Dragan Nastic,
UNICEF Nigeria is believed to be the main
source country on the continent, where destitute families are either paid for
their children or persuaded to give them away believing that they will
receive an education and a better life in the UK. On arrival, children as young as 10 are
kept undercover from British society and forced to work as domestic slaves or
prostitutes. Behind closed and often locked doors, they work long days for no
money, are kept from school and beaten if the work is not done. ***
ARCHIVES *** NSPCC
opens first UK advice line to help combat child trafficking - 0800 107 7057 The NSPCC today (8 October 2007) launches
the first advice and information line to protect children trafficked to the “Identifying trafficked children
can be very difficult, even for a professional working in social services or
immigration. These children are incredibly vulnerable – they might be
regularly beaten, raped, denied food and basic comforts, and have no access
to healthcare or an education.
Trafficked children have often lost their trust in adults because of
the abuse they have suffered. They are afraid to ask for help for fear of
retaliation from their trafficker or being treated as criminals by the Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Women
were trafficked for sexual exploitation from Central and Eastern Europe
(primarily the Balkans and the former Soviet Union) and Asia, including Trafficking victims were most
often subject to debt bondage, the withholding of travel documents, false
information about law enforcement and immigration penalties, or threats of
violence against them or their families. Traffickers less frequently employed
physical and sexual violence. Organized international gangs
allegedly were responsible for most trafficking for commercial sexual
exploitation. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
There were reports that children were trafficked into the country and forced
to work as domestic servants, beggars, pickpockets, drug couriers, or in
sweatshops and restaurants. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2000 [49] In the light of the
socio-economic situation in some of the more economically disadvantaged Worthing care home couple's trial for human trafficking www.worthingherald.co.uk/worthing/Worthing-care-home-couple39s-trial.5292448.jp
David Scutt,
prosecuting, said the couple were part of an
international trafficking network which lured poor Mauritian workers to the
country with the promise of wages four times what they could earn at home. CHELSEA
FLOWER SHOW - He
said a recruitment agency on Mauritius provided cover letters allowing the
workers to enter the country as visitors – but, on arrival, they were put to
work on 13-hour shifts caring for elderly people suffering from dementia, and
paid £450 a month – the sum they had been told would be their weekly wage. Migrants'
work stocked supermarkets news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7738293.stm
COORDINATED APPROACH - It was alleged the workers, who
had been recruited in eastern Europe, were trapped by the gang who placed
them in squalid accommodation and forced them to work for up to 16 hours a
day picking vegetables. The UK Border
Agency Regional Director, Simon Excell, branded the
gang's alleged actions a "modern form of slavery". "Human trafficking of any kind,
whether for sexual or labour exploitation, is an
appalling crime where people are treated as commodities and traded for
profit," said Mr Excell.
'Sex
slavery' gang jailed in child prostitution case www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/04/sex-slavery-gang
A gang of human traffickers,
brothel keepers and pimps received substantial jail terms yesterday over the
ordeal of a teenage virgin tricked into travelling
to the Their Slovakian victim had cried
in the dock as she described spending nearly a year-and-a-half working as a
prostitute after being lured to Scores
rescued from trafficking Police say 167 victims, including
12 children, have been rescued in a major crackdown on human trafficking. DESPICABLE CRIME - The Home Office said Operation
Pentameter Two was the most successful effort of its kind. The majority of victims rescued originated
from Women captured by human
traffickers can be forced to have sex with up to 40 men a day by violent
pimps, police said. VICTIMS REMOVED - But Home Office Minister Vernon
Coaker said about half of the victims had refused
to cooperate with the authorities. The problem was worse among child
victims who were told by those exploiting them that it was not in their best
interests to co-operate. Man
Jailed For 'Horrific' Trafficking Offences Victims were brought into the Moldovan sex slaves released in www.tiraspoltimes.com/node/1745 A group of girls from EUROPE'S LARGEST SEX-TRAFFICKER - Human trafficking networks and
sex slavery gangs bring young women to the Human
trafficking rife in borough, says report Human trafficking is rife in It reveals a shocking range of offences
including sexual exploitation, ritual abuse, forced labour,
domestic servitude, forced marriages, and benefit fraud. The study also says there is a lack of hard
evidence on the issue and said the borough's counter-trafficking response was
"greatly impeded" by a lack of clear policy and a "pervasive
attitude that it was someone else's problem". Fighting
the evil new slave trade Most of the women have been
tricked into coming into the The other side of trafficking is
worker exploitation. All kinds of
people, including children, are smuggled illegally into the The
Child Slaves - Criminals turn from drugs to trafficking Child-trafficking in Despite the The
Met's Human Trafficking Team (HTT) has had its
first human trafficking sentencing In interview the victim, at the
time 31 years old, told police that she knew both Saisho
YANKOV (male) and Asie ISUFOVA (female) from On the fifth day they told her the
only work they had been able to find was prostitution. She told them she
didn't want to do this but YANKOV then made threats against her family back
in Children
for sale: UK's new slave trade The illicit trade in children -
sold by their parents, some while still babies, to criminal gangs and people
traffickers - has been uncovered by a Sunday Telegraph investigation. An undercover reporter was offered several
children for sale by their parents in Impoverished African parents are
being lured by the traffickers' promises of "a better life" for
their children, thousands of miles away in cities including Sex
Slaves Bought For £7000 Freed In Police Raid Three women held as sex slaves in The Tales
of sex and sadness from inside Britain's oldest profession 'I'D BEEN
DREAMING OF A FUTURE AS A WIFE AND A MOTHER' - 'I had been working as a waitress,
dreaming of a future as a wife and mother,' 'He beat me and made me live with
another girl who spied on me. She wouldn't leave me for a second and reported
to this man if I did anything that looked like trying to escape. He forced me
to work in the brothel, but the clients complained because I just cried all
the time. The manager asked me what was wrong. I didn't have the language to
express myself, but eventually I managed to explain. I don't think she felt
sorry for me, but she saw that I wasn't going to earn her brothel any money
because I would never willingly work. She helped me to escape and I went to
the police. This has damaged my life in all directions. I have no dreams now
and no hopes. I have nothing.' Helping
children turn life around While runaways and vulnerable
children are not new, the spectre of people
trafficking has reared its head on Tyneside in
recent years. In March this year a report by
ECPAT – End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of
Children – revealed 13 youngsters, including Chinese and Somalians,
had flown into Three Chinese girls – Weng Mei Fang, 16, Lin Xiu Ming, 17, and He Yun Jin,
17 – disappeared from Elswick Lodge hostel in Park
Close, Elswick, Police
uncover human trafficking misery A Romanian woman who was raped and
forced to work as a prostitute is among 20 victims of human trafficking identified
by police in the central belt in the past eight weeks. Most of the women are from the Far
East - mainly A
barbaric trade in human misery right on our doorsteps "One of the first victims we
helped in the "She was phoned up by someone
and asked if she would like to sell ice cream for the summer in British
Police Crack Down on Human Trafficking Joanne says she was freed after 11
months because her health began to fail and she was no longer of use to her
trafficker. She says he let her go, but gave her devastating news. "He
said, 'I have HIV and I'm pretty sure I have infected you.' I went to a
clinic and found out I was HIV positive which leads to AIDS and I totally
lost my mind." At the back is a young Chinese
woman, the wife of the owner who was sold to him for £10,000. She works as
his slave in sweatshop conditions and is regularly beaten. It is one of these
beatings which will eventually lead to her death. "We found she was suffering from
trench foot and she had been kept in a box six feet by six feet,"
recalls Grahame Maxwell, Chief Constable of North
Yorkshire Police and programme director for the UK
Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) in Derry
charity worker welcomes team to tackle human trafficking "The numbers are quite
significant and it is growing. This place is ripe for it at the minute
because it is very easy for people to be in the shadows. Between the last two
to four months people have been coming to us that have been abandoned - we
try to ensure that they are safe and secure. We have to identify where they
come from - a lot don't want to get into trouble. They have left their
families behind in often small villages and don't want to give too much
information about the traffickers because they are worried about what will
happen to their families." The
charity worker said once the problem is exposed they easily disappear. "That is the worrying thing - often we
don't know where they go. They are cases for concern because of the
duplication of identification, the language difficulty and the fear
factor." Police
unite to tackle human trafficking video.stv.tv/bc/news-Police_unite_to_tackle_human_traf_200710-20071003-police-unite-to-tackle-human-trafficking/ www.stv.tv/content/news/headlines/display.html?id=opencms:/news/Police_unite_to_tackle_human_traf_200710 Anna was promised a better life
far from her home in Albania - but then forced into having sex with up to 30
strangers each and everyday. She said: "You have to work even
if you're sick they don't care - you just have to make the money for them
because they need cars then need nice houses, nice clothes." National
police campaign to target sex trafficking The government estimates that up
to 4,000 women and girls are forced into prostitution after being trafficked
from abroad. Last year Pentameter
rescued 88 women and girls, including some as young as 14, who had been
forced into the sex industry. Crime
gangs 'expand sex slavery into shires' Immigration from What is less expected is that the
brothel where she was kept as a sex slave is not in Port
is prime target for child traffickers www.thisisdorset.net/news/1720518.port_is_prime_target_for_child_traffickers/ Criminal gangs are targeting
vulnerable ports, such as Poole, to traffic children they can exploit for labour and illegal activity into the Trafficked
children 'should remain' Children trafficked into "It should meet victim's
needs and should not be granted in exchange for co-operation with the
law-enforcement authorities. "The
length of the permit should be compatible with the best interests of the
child." Children
trafficked from Asia to UK to work in cannabis factories Hundreds of young children
illegally trafficked into the Gangs can reap up to £300,000
profit a year from a three-bedroom house converted into a cannabis factory.
Children are brought in by gangs to tend the plants. Many have been found unable
to escape through doors or windows sealed and wired to give off dangerous
electric shocks. Others fear reprisals against relatives if they try to
escape. Police are currently raiding up to three houses a day where children
are being discovered Police
chiefs told to declare war on organised people
trafficking — More than 10,000 women from
Eastern Europe, Africa and the — Groups of Romanian children are
being smuggled into the country and forced to earn their keep as pickpockets
in — Unknown numbers of men and
women, many from Asia, are enslaved as bonded labour
to pay off debts of up to £10,000 to the criminal syndicates that smuggled
them into Britain; Ms Spence, who has produced a detailed report on the
impact of demo-graphic change on policing in her county, said that the
Government was out of touch with what was happening. Sex workers helping
with human trafficking swannet.org/node/571 www.towncriertoday.co.uk/news?articleid=3124923 Sex workers have given police
vital information to help with a crackdown on the human trafficking trade in Cambridgeshire.
The established sex workers have told police working on Operation
Radium that they want to help young girls being held prisoners as sex slaves
by criminal gangs working in the county. Britain's
'invisible army' of African slaves Dragan Nastic,
UNICEF Nigeria is believed to be the main
source country on the continent, where destitute families are either paid for
their children or persuaded to give them away believing that they will
receive an education and a better life in the UK. On arrival, children as young as 10 are
kept undercover from British society and forced to work as domestic slaves or
prostitutes. Behind closed and often locked doors, they work long days for no
money, are kept from school and beaten if the work is not done. 'Evil
and disgusting' trade in sex slaves www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/environment/evil_and_disgusting_trade_in_sex_slaves_1_82719 www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news?articleid=3090110 Sickened police officers visited
36 suspected city brothels in a matter of weeks in search of human sex
slaves. Their campaign – Operation
Radium – was launched in May in a bid to identify 100 of the establishments
in Cambridgeshire and find out if they were selling
the services of kidnapped foreign women.
In the space of just six months, a total of seven women – five in Human
trafficking: Case studies findarticles.com/p/news-articles/peterborough-evening-telegraph-england/mi_7912/is_2007_August_7/human-trafficking-studies/ai_n35212008/ www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news?articleid=3090109 Victim A managed to escape from a horrific
cycle of abuse which involved being beaten and raped up to 25 times a day
after she climbed through the window of a Two
arrested for human trafficking A Hungarian man and his girlfriend
have been arrested after a teenage girl they forced to work as a prostitute
was rescued from a A police source said: "This young
woman was duped in to coming to the country and has been kept against her
will. F1
fuels human trafficking, activists say Last year, Falling Short
of the Mark: An International Study on the Treatment of Human Trafficking
Victims [PDF] UNITED KINGDOM - The United Kingdom has failed
to meet the international standards set in the Trafficking Protocol related
to the protection of victims of human trafficking, and is currently reviewing
its policy in this area in light of its recent ratification of the
Trafficking Protocol. It is also considering becoming a signatory to the
European Trafficking Convention. Trafficking victims are dealt with on a
case-by-case basis and routinely deported. Only minimal support has been
provided to victims in recent years, and only general laws exist for their protection
during investigations. RESIDENCE - The Authorities
'failing to stop child trafficking' A lack of police and immigration
officers is allowing the trafficking of children into Rape
revealed human trafficking SOLD SEVERAL TIMES - Mr
Steer said that during her time in the UK the woman, who suffers from
epilepsy, was sold several times and operated in the Manchester area, before
she was finally trafficked to the restaurant. When she arrived in the Police set up human trafficking unit www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=United+Kingdom+%26+Europe&month=March2007&file=World_News2007030824658.xml Police launched a special unit to
target the growing menace of human trafficking in the capital yesterday, vowing
to smash foreign criminal gangs that sell their victims into the sex trade or
use them as forced labour. Many young women smuggled illegally into
the Britain's
shame over 21st century slavery Britain is a key staging point in
a flourishing international slave trade that has seen up to 14,000 women and
children brought here for the sex industry and vast numbers enslaved in
forced- labour rackets. A report by the York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation today reveals modern-day slavery as a
high-profit international trade and paints a damning picture of the way the
Government has dealt with the issue, which has escalated over the past
decade. Sex traffic:
Danielle was 15 when she was sold into slavery in the UK Danielle was excited at the
prospect of leaving her home in Danielle suspected nothing until
the stranger took her passport once they passed through customs and left her
with two Albanians and a Lithuanian woman. It turned out that she had been
sold for £3,500. The "holiday job" was working in a brothel in Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery
International, London-based feminist charity Eaves and Unicef
Here is a selection of photographs
from the exhibition and the stories behind the images. Sex
trade moves its modern-day slaves into the suburbs Graeme Maxwell, Yorkshire police's
deputy chief constable and programme director for
the UK Human Trafficking Centre, said: "The traffickers and pimps are
taking the girls to rented flats and houses in areas all over the Latest
anti-human trafficking tactics shared at seminar In Tyneside centre of slave-girls scam Among its findings, under-age
forced marriages of Somali girls were confined to Trafficking
victims to get housing and medical aid Victims of human trafficking in As many as 4,000 victims of
trafficking - mainly young women - were involved in enforced prostitution in Tories
call for action on human trafficking The Conservatives argue that
removal centres, like the one in Harmondsworth, West Drayton, The party cited the Poppy Project
as better practice. Under that scheme victims of trafficking for prostitution
are placed in a 25-bedroom safe house and given a 28-day period of
reflection. If they decide to co-operate with a prosecution, they can stay
for up to 12 weeks before being deported. Bishop
of Liverpool Calls on Government to Ratify Human Trafficking Convention The Bishop of Liverpool has called
on the government to ratify the 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action
against Trafficking in Human Beings, which includes measures to protect and
support victims of trafficking. And Europe and the MPs
urge immediate action on human trafficking www.humantrafficking.org/updates/434 news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1514552006 "We should recognise women trafficked for prostitution through deception, fear and violence as victims of
this serious crime, and not immigration offenders or criminals themselves. "Of even greater concern is
the lack of knowledge we have of the extent of the trafficking of young children
for domestic servitude or, even worse, labour in
the drugs trade." Europe's
first human trafficking centre opens www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_World&set_id=1&click_id=&art_id=qw1159897681449B216 www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1159897681449B216 "Some victims do not even realise they are being trafficked until they arrive and
then find the job they were being promised as a waitress turns out to be
enforced servitude as a prostitute, including being beaten and raped. "Today in Human trafficking problems in Scotland www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2006/09/24/human_trafficking_problems_in_scotland/ At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
McCormack, the head of the
organized immigration crime team, said a new trend is emerging, with children
from The situation is chilling - police
and council officials openly admit they are not yet in a position to be sure
of the scale of the problem in Scotland - but they have seen enough to know
that foreign girls as young as 12 are being prostituted north of the Border.
They warn that The first signs of What sickens those trying to
tackle the problem most is the age of the girls involved. Teenagers under the
age of 16 are, police are now certain, being held captive in private flats,
and their pimps are seeking punters from the local population. This is
something which sickens those trying to tackle the problem. Human
trafficking: the dark side of the EU dream The expansion of the European
Union in Central and The route to hell living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1230692006 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] The majority of sex workers in Charities criticise government indifference to child trafficking Trafficked children are
transported from all over Africa, The victims are often smuggled
into Children from Eastern European children tend to
be used to beg and steal. Many more children are expected to be used to these
ends next year when She was a teenage orphan living on
the streets of True to his word, her
"savior" brought her into the Three months later, when the
16-year-old Kenyan girl became pregnant, she was forced to continue sleeping
with a succession of men until she was almost due to give birth. The heavily
pregnant teenager was then removed from the brothel, driven out of the town
where she had been held, and dumped many miles away on the streets of Hundreds
of Child Slaves Trafficked into UK Hundreds of children as young as
six years old are being trafficked into The parents of the children 'sell'
their children to the traffickers, sometimes for sums up to £3000, believing
that they are going to a better life. They are brought in on fake passports
and put to work immediately. 'Slaves
auctioned' by traffickers COFFEE SHOP AUCTION - A CPS conference on Monday is
to discuss airport crime, and its director in west "We are now seeing 'slave
auctions' being held in public places at airports where brothel keepers are
bidding for women destined for prostitution." Appeal
over NI human trafficking There has been a call for more
resources to help stamp out people trafficking in Scotland's
sex trade goes deeper underground - Shock Scale Of Sick Trade We were told by the girls how they
were duped into applying for college places or jobs, then stripped of their
passports and passed from gang to gang and city to city. Many had no idea where they were
staying. Chief among the slave traders are
Lithuanian, Russian and the Albanian crime gangs so vicious that even
hardened Scottish criminals give them a wide berth. Brutal gangsters imprison the
terrified girls in brothels, rape them repeatedly to break their spirits, and
force them to have sex with up to 60 men each per day. Around 7000 women in Skelly said: "Trafficked girls do
not work on the street because there is a lack of control there for the
gangs. "Instead, the girls are
kept as virtual prisoners inside a house or a sauna, where they are much
easier to keep an eye on. They work very long hours and are hardly allowed
out at all." Many of the girls
are virgins when they arrive and the crooks gangrape
them to "break them in".
Rape is also used as a punishment for girls who disobey. Young
women being trafficked into capital to work as sex slaves In the other case, a Lithuanian
woman was lured to Her story came to light after she
was moved to Trafficked
women tricked into prostitution Eastern European women have spoken
of how they were duped into a life of prostitution on the streets of One young woman told the Week In
Week Out team how she came to the Consultation
on UK’s First National Action Plan to Tackle Human Trafficking www.lgcplus.com/lgc-news/consultation-on-uks-first-national-action-plan-to-tackle-human-trafficking/524454.article press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/consult-human-traffic The Government’s commitment to
tackle the appalling modern day slave trade of human trafficking moved up a
gear today as Home Office Minister Paul Goggins
launched a public consultation on a national action plan which will build
upon existing tough anti-trafficking measures. The consultation paper outlines the
work the Government has done so far to tackle human trafficking, from
legislation and law enforcement to support for victims, and proposes an
action plan for areas of future work. This plan will take a comprehensive
end-to-end approach covering the different elements of the anti-trafficking
strategy. Traffickers
face action to curb sex trade The Government will this week announce
a crackdown on the sex trafficking gangs which bring thousands of young women
to The "action plan"
follows the Sunday Telegraph's undercover investigations into the cruel and fast-growing
trade condemned as "21st century slavery". Canada an
“International Embarrassment” on Sex Trafficking Of the countries evaluated: 'I
was raped and beaten. I lost the will to run away' Working at two flats and a
"massage parlor" six days a week, she charges £150-£400, depending
on the time and services supplied - but has to hand over almost all the money
to her Russian pimp. She is one of
thousands of vulnerable young girls who have been trafficked to Man denies
trafficking prostitute The jury was told on Thursday that
the three Albanian men bought the woman in Albanian Sex Slave Gang Jailed www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=JH120244B&news_headline=albanian_sex_slave_gang_jailed A ruthless gang of Albanian
brothers who trafficked women into Sex-trafficked victims to be offered refuge www.sundayherald.com/52671 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] It is thought between 2000 and
6000 women and girls are trafficked into the Sex-trade
children flown to region Global crime syndicates have begun
to use Immigrants
tell of forced prostitution and slavery as trafficking gang is jailed Detectives believe the gang brought
at least 600 illegal immigrants to the Sex
trade gang 'beggared belief' Sentencing, Judge Barber said:
"Their behavior absolutely beggared belief,
they had taken two young Lithuanian girls and transported them to Safety Fears For Women Rescued In www.antislavery.org/archive/press/pressrelease2005UKrescue.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
There is serious concern over the
treatment of the 19 women rescued from a Young Women Forced
into Prostitution in the UK A special task force of female
officers led 19 women out of the Cuddles massage parlor in CPS continues fight against sex trade traffickers www.cps.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/archive/2005/145_05.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The latest Crown Prosecution
Service case against human traffickers ended today with the sentencing of Viktoras Larcenko, the last
member of a gang convicted for smuggling girls from Man in sex slave case 'kind with a purpose' www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2005/06/30/fe47db5a-a674-41cc-ac4e-84a3949e47fe.lpf At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] The woman, who worked as a teacher
and gym instructor in Boys from Africa are being
murdered as human sacrifices in What
s New section: The People Traffickers [PDF] [page 5 and continued on pages 8
& 9] Lithuanian authorities believe native gangs
are recruiting and organizing the trafficking of women to the Police criticized for leaving pimp to rape girl www.bhhrg.org/mediaDetails.asp?ArticleID=184 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] A judge called yesterday for an
inquiry into police blunders which left a pimp free to repeatedly rape and
beat a teenage girl and force her to work as a prostitute. Agrol Xhabri, 22, was jailed for 12 years after abducting the
17-year-old Latvian girl from her father's house in east Freedom
for Thai sex slave women Police who raided the brothel,
which was less than a mile from the town centre, uncovered information about a
sophisticated prostitution gang that illegally brings girls from Asia into
the Government officials in sex trafficking ring arrested www.tedgunderson.com/HeadlinesSexualAbuse/Government%20officials%20in%20sex%20trafficking%20ring%20arrested.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The arrests are only a small part
of the scandal, according to sources in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica. It is an open secret in the Balkans that
people-trafficking rings run through The sex-slave routes lead to Hundreds
of children 'vanishing' Between July and September 2001,
300 had disappeared, and police fear thousands may go missing annually. Child welfare experts say the figures hint
at the scale of child trafficking, sometimes for labor or benefit fraud. A previous BBC investigation found some
African children were being held by their parents' creditors, so they could
claim extra benefits. Slavery fears for 'lost' children www.tedgunderson.com/HeadlinesSexualAbuse/2004/Slavery%20Fears%20for%20Lost%20Children.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Neither the Metropolitan Police or the Immigration Service would
officially release the findings but BBC Radio Five Live understands the
children could not be found at up to 30 of the addresses visited during that
three month period. Police discovered
that in some cases the same address had been given by successive children who
could not be traced. African trafficking ring linked to UK www.tedgunderson.com/HeadlinesSexualAbuse/2003/BBC%20NEWS%20%20UK%20%20African%20trafficking%20ring%20linked%20to%20UK.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
One father in Bafoussam
said he cries every day for his missing 14-year-old daughter. He had persuaded her to work as a
babysitter for £10 a month after ill-health forced him to give up his own job
as a teacher. Far More Lithuanians Sold Into Prostitution In The number of young Lithuanian
women sold for sex in Britain has increased from "single cases to dozens
every month" since the Baltic state joined the European Union last year,
the head of Lithuania's Interpol bureau said. "Nightclub
Girls Helped Me Escape Captivity" The youngster, from Tackle
Child Exploitation, Ministers Urged Based on reports from social
services, police and immigration, it is known at least 250 children were
trafficked into the Migrants
Subject To Forced Labor In The UK This report reveals that migrants
who can legally work in this country are also shockingly badly exploited
because they are unable to enforce their legal rights because of the power
their employer has over them. The
report, 'Forced Labor and Migration to the UK' reveals abuse, including very
long hours, pay below the minimum wage and dangerous working conditions in a
range of sectors including construction, hospitality, agriculture, food
processing, horticulture, contract cleaning, nursing and care homes. Employers and agencies who
break the law are rarely prosecuted or even inspected by the authorities. Migrant
women forced into cheap sex trade Sex
Slaves Vice Baron Sentenced women kept by Ismailej,
an illegal immigrant, were forced to work seven days a week, for up to 13
hours a day, and give up their passports to satisfy his "love of
money". Brian O'Neill,
prosecuting, told the court that Ismailej was the
ringleader and that he did not regard the women as anything other than
chattels. The Third Way's
Dirtiest Secret A year ago this Saturday, 23
Chinese cockle pickers died at It is not just the sex industry
that traffics and exploits migrants, but our key sectors - food and
agriculture, contract cleaning, hotels and catering, construction and care
homes. Moreover, the state uses migrants' forced labour
in many cases - when it outsources local authority
care to the private sector, when it uses agencies to recruit NHS nurses who
end up living on £5 a week, when it uses contract cleaners provided by the
cheapest bidder for its offices, or when subcontracted migrant labour is used on private finance initiative
construction. The Damning
report on migrants delayed as government fears poll backlash The publication of a
ground-breaking report on forced labour and the
exploitation of migrant workers in It catalogues coercive techniques
used by private employers to force migrants to work for low wages and in poor
conditions, from physical and sexual violence to debt bondage and blackmail. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil
Liberties: 1 Status: Free Human Rights Overview by Human Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide Illegal
migrant jailed for sex-slave ring An illegal immigrant who made a
fortune from trafficking East European sex slaves was jailed for 11 years
yesterday. Vullnet
Ismailaj, 27, an Albanian, smuggled scores of young
Lithuanian women into Slavery 'worse
than ever' - Hague There is more slavery now than
there was at the height of the slave trade, former Conservative leader
William Hague has warned. Mr Hague said criminal gangs were blighting the Sex slaves trafficker is jailed for 18 years listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0501&L=twatch-l&D=1&O=D&F=P&S=&P=856 Sex slaves
trafficker is jailed for 18 years An illegal immigrant has been jailed for 18
years for trafficking women from Eastern Europe and forcing them to work as
prostitutes in a Men
jailed for selling teenager Three illegal immigrants have been
jailed for a total of 40 years for selling a teenage girl as a sex
slave. The 16-year-old, from Children
groomed for sex trafficking Children in Groundbreaking
sentence increase for human trafficker www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_releases/118_04/ Roger Coe-Salazar, District Crown
Prosecutor for CPS Wood Green Trials Unit, said: "I did not feel that the
overall sentence of ten years adequately reflected the enormous human misery
he, and people like him, inflict on highly vulnerable young women.
Accordingly, we referred the matter to the Attorney General as an 'unduly
lenient sentence' in the hope that the Court of Appeal would impose a
sentence that established a sentencing yard stick for this despicable crime.
We will continue with our work to seize the profits gained by Plakici through the exploitation of women." TOURIST INFLUX - Last month the BBC discovered
an international child-trafficking ring based in Leading www.antislavery.org/archive/press/pressrelease2005maycoeuk.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Home Office research in 2000,
estimated that up to 1,420 women were trafficked into the www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=41837 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Malawian women are targeted by
trafficking groups because they do not require a visa to enter the Upon arrival, as the IOM
discovered in the Raids net 13 suspected of human trafficking www.associazioneantigone.it/cpta/rassegnastampa/read.asp?newsID=106 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] They might be told they are coming
here to be a student, but they end up in bonded employment working in a
kitchen or as a fast food chef and paid minimal wages so they can't discharge
their debt. Child sex tourism www.onebigvillage.com.au/onebigvillage/content.asp?topicID=81&obv1=msnhomepage At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] CHILD SEX TOURISM - Child
prostitutes' sad stories They told Ms Turner they had been
kidnapped in She told authorities that she and
other girls had been picked up from local authority hostels, and taken overland
to CENTRAL ASIA:
Special report on human trafficking Responding to a job advertisement
in a local paper, she accepted an au pair post in the "I borrowed 350 pounds and
was given a menial job cleaning rooms in a small hotel. No one wanted to hire
me. I didn't have the right papers and I couldn't pay this money back,"
she explained. Later, the Russian-speaking woman who had met her at the
airport introduced her to her Albanian boyfriend, who proposed that Svetlana
work at his sauna providing massages for visiting clientele. "This was a
shock for me. I didn't know what to do," she said. "Suddenly I felt
trapped." But Svetlana was lucky. She was
not subject to violence or rape when she refused to comply with those who trafficked her to the UNICEF
report reveals changing face of child trafficking The face of child trafficking to
the www.ncis.co.uk/ukta/2003/threat04.asp At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] HUMAN TRAFFICKING 4.25 Human trafficking is
essentially concerned with the exploitation of migrants as a resource. It
takes various forms, including exploitation as cheap tied labour,
for example in illicit sweatshops producing counterfeit goods. However, many
of those who are trafficked are forced to work in the vice trade as
prostitutes. TRAFFICKING FOR PROSTITUTION 4.26 Traffickers use a number of
methods to recruit migrants into the vice trade. Most involve some form of
deception, and exploit the lack of opportunities open to women in source
countries. Traffickers place advertisements in local newspapers and media,
advertising legitimate employment opportunities in the EU, for example as
maids, nannies, bar and catering staff, receptionists, clerical staff,
dancers and entertainers. Advertisements are also placed offering marriage
opportunities to women seeking EU husbands, and front agencies are also used
for this purpose. Other victims are knowingly recruited into the sex trade,
but are unaware of the conditions under which they will be forced to work.
Some trafficking victims are kidnapped, usually in the Balkans and Former
Soviet Union, but this is less common. TRAFFICKING IN MINORS 4.33 Several thousand
unaccompanied minors arrive in the All material used herein
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