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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking

Synopsis of the Upcoming Lifetime TV Mini-series

In the first original Lifetime miniseries ever, Academy Award�� winner Mira Sorvino and Emmy�� winner Donald Sutherland team up to play U.S. officers who crack down on an international human-trafficking ring. The story follows several girls and women all over the world who have been abducted and sold into prostitution — from a single Czech mom to a 12-year-old American tourist. This is a compelling, eye-opening film about a growing epidemic. You can't afford to miss it!

Watch the premiere on Monday, October 24 at 9 pm et/pt.

http://www.lifetimetv.com/movies/originals/humantrafficking.html

http://images.google.com/images?q=human+trafficking&hl=en

[igotthisguitar]

Chinese Police Probe Online Baby Auction
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer

SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai police are investigating an online ad offering babies for sale on the Chinese subsidiary of auction Web site eBay, the company said Thursday.

The ad was deleted shortly after it was placed Sunday and relevant information has been turned over to investigators, a spokesman for the Eachnet Web site said.

"We took measures as soon as we received complaints from customers," said the spokesman, who gave only his surname, Tang. "Then we called the police and now they are investigating."

Media reports said the ad offered baby boys for 28,000 yuan ($3,500) and girls for 13,000 yuan ($1,600), reflecting the traditional Chinese preference for males.

It promised to deliver infants within 100 days of birth.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051020/ap_on_hi_te/china_babies_for_sale

[Gorgias]

Selling babies to new-trend restaurants isn't cool, but selling them to happy homes ought to be okay.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[igotthisguitar]

DynCorp Disgrace
Posted Jan. 14, 2002
By Kelly Patricia O Meara

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/163052.html

Americans were seen in Bosnia as defenders of the children, as shown here, until U.S. contractors began buying children as personal sex slaves.



Middle-aged men having sex with 12- to 15-year-olds was too much for Ben Johnston, a hulking 6-foot-5-inch Texan, and more than a year ago he blew the whistle on his employer, DynCorp, a U.S. contracting company doing business in Bosnia.

According to the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) lawsuit filed in Texas on behalf of the former DynCorp aircraft mechanic, "in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in] other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased."

Rather than acknowledge and reward Johnston's effort to get this behavior stopped, DynCorp fired him, forcing him into protective custody by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) until the investigators could get him safely out of Kosovo and returned to the United States.

That departure from the war-torn country was a far cry from what Johnston imagined a year earlier when he arrived in Bosnia to begin a three-year U.S. Air Force contract with DynCorp as an aircraft-maintenance technician for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dyncorp+disgrace

Quake kids sold to sex trade
Dean Nelson, Islamabad
October 24, 2005

SIX-YEAR-OLD Aisha loves the orange blouse and jeans given to her by the kind woman who rescued her from the chaos of the Kashmir earthquake. She snuggles up to the woman, trying to forget the devastation of her village home and the deaths of her parents 16 days ago.

What Aisha does not know is that the woman, Kausar, is a prostitute who has bought her from relatives for 50,000 rupees ($1500) and plans to put her to work in the sex trade as soon as she reaches puberty.

Aisha is not alone. According to welfare agencies, many of the hundreds of girls and boys orphaned by the October 8 earthquake are being targeted by gangs intent on turning them into prostitutes or street beggars.

Other children are being sold for adoption by their parents in acts prompted by the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's Government is so alarmed by the threat to vulnerable children that it has placed armed guards at all hospitals and ordered that no child is released to anyone until proof of kinship has been verified.

A ban on adoption was announced after hospitals and shelters were besieged by people offering to take Kashmiri orphans. Staff at a hospital in Islamabad say a number of people posing as relatives were caught trying to abduct children.

But Manan Rana, a child protection officer working for United Nations children's fund UNICEF in quake-hit Muzaffarabad, says government in Kashmir has collapsed and officials are unable to provide protection.

No official appears to have noticed when Aisha disappeared. After her home in a village called Arja was wrecked, she was taken to her grandmother's house in the nearby city of Bagh. Kausar, her new "carer", who claims the little girl is a distant relative, heard about her plight from family members.

"Her grandmother was too old to look after the girl. I went to Bagh on October 12 and I got her very cheap. A pimp from Lahore might have paid 100,000 rupees," she said.

"I will provide a good education for her. I would not like her to be a cheap, third-class prostitute. I do care about the girl. I will take good care of her, and then reap the benefit. I'm providing for her protection and I don't care what Allah thinks."

She will auction the girl's virginity when she reaches puberty and expects to get up to $4700 for that alone. "She could start work as soon as she has her first period," Kausar said.

If Aisha refuses to work as a prostitute, she will be sold to a pimp. Kausar would not consider any intervention by journalists.

The Sunday Times
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17009897%5E2703,00.html

[BigBlackEquus]

Got to love how articles like that make it sound like all americans there engaged in such activity, or condoned it. As if it were common.

Certain people with an agenda of their own like to push such beliefs on others, and this is one way they do it.


The difference is that the US usually investigates/stops/punishes people who do such things. Many other countries don't do a thing about it.

The US is not a perfect country, but it's a lot better at human rights than most countries out there. BY FAR.

[rapier]

South Korea is a source, transit, and destination country for women who are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Women from Russia, the People��s Republic of China (P.R.C.), the Philippines, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian countries are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation to South Korea. Korean women are trafficked to Japan and to the United States, sometimes via Canada, for exploitation in prostitution.

http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SouthKorea.htm

[canuckistan]

Gosh, isn't Dyncorp a closely-related subsidiary of Cheney's "old company" Halliburton and KPR with gadzillion $ gov't contracts funded by the taxpayer?

[Hater Depot]

Sex Slave Whistle-Blowers Vindicated

[igotthisguitar]

Israel ... Of All Places Becomes International Slavery Center
Added: Apr 4th, 2007 7:20 AM

Israel's sex slaves

Israel of all places has turned into international center of modern-day slavery
Roni Aloni-Sadovnik

The United Nations recently marked 200 years since the annulment of the transatlantic slave trade. Yet we must recall that in the year 2007, as us Jews celebrate our liberation from slavery, there are still 12.3 million slaves across the world, including at least 3,000 women being "traded" in Israel � and another thousands of foreign workers who are subjugated here to a life of slavery and humiliation.

Turning a person into another person's property and taking away someone's freedom while taking advantage of their economic helplessness mark the opposite of democracy. Their very presence in our modern-day world proves that we have never left Egypt, even though Egypt has left us.

According to estimates by the foreign workers assistance call center, every month there are about a million "visits" to slaves who are traded into slavery in Israel. These painful figures prove that we forgot the lesson of history, which showed us that evil and moral decay spread in societies that turn a blind eye to this phenomenon � such societies ultimately lose all their values

The struggle against international crime organizations that run the global slave trade cannot succeed unless it is undertaken on the local level. Under this state of affairs, we could expect the Free World's leader � America, the mother of liberty � to lead the global struggle against slavery. How disappointing that even those who suffered from slavery in America are no longer interested in this issue.

For example, Barack Obama, the African-American presidential candidate and senator from Illinois, declared that thanks to the millions who backed President Lincoln, there is no longer slavery and no North against South. Is there indeed no slavery in America today? No slavery in the world? These words illustrate the deafening silence of world leaders and their priorities when it comes to the prospering market of woman trade in particular and human beings in general.

Growing like cancer
The institution of slavery is different at different places and times, and shows a new face in accordance with the socioeconomic and moral-religious circumstances of every society. At the outset of the third millennium, we can see how the wealthy and aggressive West subjugates the peoples of eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa to fulfill its corporeal needs.

However, as a Jewish woman who works against the woman trade in Israel, my disappointment and anger are not only directed at Obama and his ilk abroad; in the same breath, I wonder about what is taking place here, with the people that has been celebrating with devotion for 2,000 years now the Passover holiday to mark our shift from slavery to liberty.

This Passover, we must tell our children not only about the story of our enslavement in Egypt and our freedom being robbed for 400 years; we must remind everyone that the struggle is not over yet. The national trauma of one group of people enslaving another group of human beings is common to all nationalities and not only the Jews.

We must talk about the horror of Israel, which pledged never to forget, turning into the largest international center in the Middle East � and one of the global leaders � in the export and import of new slavery.

Both societies are charged with the moral decree of leading the battle against slavery. The sad and painful history of the Jewish people and the African-American community in the United States is painfully similar, yet the leaders of those two communities are ignoring the phenomenon of the new slavery, which is growing like cancer.

During Lincoln's time, the North fought the South, and slaves were imported from poverty-stricken Africa to serve the white man. Since that time, the backdrop has changed, but slavery still exists. It has become more sophisticated and more brutal, and there is no Lincoln who will get up and declare a civil war against it.

The writer heads the Israeli organization for fighting the woman trade

Copyright � Yedioth Internet. All rights reserved.

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Police Crack Down On "Alleged" Human Smuggling Rings
Operating In Canada

MONTREAL (CBC) - Police have broken up two major human smuggling rings that allegedly snuck hundreds of illegal aliens into the United States from Canada.

The rings, operating out of Toronto and Montreal since 2004, allegedly drove foreigners to the American border and guided them across on foot, avoiding roads and border crossings.

The aliens, who came to Canada from Korea, Pakistan, India and Central America, allegedly paid $10,000 per person for the service.

U.S. authorities, with the help of the RCMP, cracked down on the rings and are prepared to lay conspiracy charges against five people allegedly linked to the Montreal operation and six people said to be tied to the Toronto group.

Eight of the 11 have already been arrested, while federal prosecutors in the U.S. are still seeking two people in Canada and one in the U.S.

The leaders of the Toronto operation are said to be the husband-and-wife team of Chol Min Jang, 49, and Dal San Jang, 44. The Montreal group was allegedly led by Jose Manuel Galdamez-Serrano, 54, a native of El Salvador who lived in Quebec.

Federal prosecutors said the "alleged" rings are considered among the largest ever to operate in the northeastern United States. Once the illegal immigrants got across the U.S. border, they were driven to cities on the U.S. East Coast.

U.S. Attorney Thomas Anderson said human smuggling operations are a threat to U.S. safety, although there are not believed to be any terrorist ties to the "alleged" Toronto and Montreal rings.

"When an organization has established a pipeline to aliens from various countries, including countries with terrorists, into the United States, they don't care who's passing through that pipeline as long as they are paying," Anderson said from Burlington, Vt.

"They don't care if it's a family looking for a better life or a terrorist looking to harm America."

Anderson said efforts were underway to extradite the suspects to the United States. If convicted, they could get up to 15 years in prison on each smuggling charge.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/071128/canada/canada_smuggling_ring

[happeningthang]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25SEXTRAFFIC.html?ei=5007en=43dbe6ef76e45af8ex=1390366800

What I want to know is who the hell are all these people paying to have forced sex, and in some instances with kids??

I mean really - there are that many of them they can support an industry?

They'd have to be pretty stupid to not realise the little foreign girl, who can't speak English has been kidnapped and enslaved to accommodate their sexual appetite.

Unbelievable.

[Big_Bird]

[igotthisguitar]

Children For Sale: UK�s New Slave Trade
January 27, 2008


This man says he makes up to �6,000 a week selling babies and children abroad

Telegraph | Jan 27, 2008
By David Harrison

Hundreds of young children are being sold and �trafficked� to Britain from Africa to be exploited as modern-day slaves, it can be revealed.

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 Nigeria: two boys aged three and five for �5,000, or �2,500 for one, and a 10-month-old baby for �2,000. Teenage girls - including some still pregnant - were willing to sell their babies for less than �1,000.

One international trafficker, tracked down in Lagos, claimed to be buying up to 500 children a year.

MORE ...

http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/children-for-sale-uks-new-slave-trade/

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http://www.thanhniennews.com/worlds/?catid=9&newsid=33288

Five South Koreans were found guilty in a New York court Friday of involvement in a sex-trafficking ring involving a string of brothels across the northeastern United States, officials said.
The five owned or managed brothels in Washington, New York and Connecticut that operated under the cover of massage parlors, spas and acupuncture clinics going by names such as "Magic Health Salon" and "OK Spa."

The five were convicted of conspiring to transport women across state and foreign borders to engage in prostitution and were among 31 people arrested in August last year and charged with immigration and trafficking offences.

The five, named as Sun Daneman, Hyang Ran Kim, Seng Hee Ryan, Jae Shim, and Tae Nam Thompson, face between five and 10 years in jail and are due to be sentenced in March next year.

An investigation began more than two years ago after a South Korean couple who owned a chain of brothels in New York City attempted to bribe an undercover detective to avoid being raided.

The resulting investigation turned up a network of brothels stretching from Rhode Island in the north to Washington, prosecutors said. At one location, investigators discovered more than 2,000 condoms hidden in picnic coolers.

According to prosecutors, the trafficking ring found women in South Korea who wanted to move to the United States and either smuggled them in through Canada or Mexico or provided them with false immigration documents.

The women would incur debts running into tens of thousands of dollars and would be forced to work as prostitutes to pay off their debts.