Category Archives: Current Affairs

What is the real price of seafood?

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Alisha Lund

The word “trafficking” normally brings to mind images of women and children trafficked for the sex trade but the truth is the fish or shrimp on your plate is more likely to have been pimped by traffickers buying and selling … Continue reading →

Three Trafficked Out Of Every 1,000 People Across Asia Pacific, Says Report

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Alisha Lund

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 (Bernama) — An estimated three people were trafficked for every 1,000 inhabitants across the Asia-Pacific region, a report by World Vision said. It said in a statement Friday that globally for every person forced into the … Continue reading →

She’s 10 and May Be Sold to a Brothel

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Alisha Lund

M. is an ebullient girl, age 10, who ranks near the top of her fourth-grade class and dreams of being a doctor. Yet she, like all of India, is at a turning point, and it looks as if her family … Continue reading →

Five held in suspected brothel raid

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Alisha Lund

Officers raided a Chinese herbalist today suspected of being run as a brothel in direct view of a busy city centre police station.    The joint operation between Northumbria Police and the UK Border Agency involved around 50 officers, saw five … Continue reading →

Asian-Americans vulnerable to sexual exploitation: outreach group

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Alisha Lund

Ms Sy says several factors make it difficult to identify Southeast Asian girls who have been recruited into the domestic minor sex trafficking trade. [AFP] An outreach organisation in California says young Southeast Asian women are vulnerable to sexual exploitation … Continue reading →

Taxi Bill Would Help Fight Sex Trafficking

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Alisha Lund

The scene plays out the same way night after night. Taxi drivers – both of yellow and livery cabs – pick up women engaged in illegal sex trade and bring them to brothels in Queens where waiting customers expect more … Continue reading →

Police in Nigeria free 32 pregnant teens from ‘baby factory;’ newborns sold into labor, sex markets

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Alisha Lund

Police in Nigeria freed 32 teen girls from an alleged “baby factory” used to feed the region’s exploding sex trade and human trafficking markets, authorities said. Cops in the southern Nigerian city of Aba raided the clinic, known as The … Continue reading →

The Police Raid

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Alisha Lund

From the moment she arrived at the karaoke club, Srey Neang looked for a chance to escape. But Chuan operated the club like a prison. Whenever they were not seeing johns, the girls were kept captive in the apartment atop … Continue reading →