The Los Angeles Times has a report on sex slaves being held in bases in Zimbabwe. From the LA Times: She has to call the young men her “comrades.” She cooks food for the comrades and serves them. She sweeps the comrades’ floor and cleans up after them. And whenever any of the comrades want sex, she is [...]

British-born teenagers are increasingly becoming victims of human trafficking in the United Kingdom.  From the Guardian: Teenage girls born in Britain are being trafficked for sexual exploitation within the UK, police said yesterday, adding that children are being “groomed” by men acting as boyfriends who carry out the abuse and then take the youngsters to other towns [...]

The Houston Chronicle has an article on the recent raid in Houston where 120 women were rescued from dismal conditions.  Read the entire article here.

The United Nations is urging the international community to assist children living in unstable countries.  From CNN: In countries torn by war, like the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq, food shortages and poverty have added to the already hellish conditions children live in. The youngest in unstable countries have become primary targets [...]

Gulf countries has spoken out against the US Trafficking in Persons Report as being political and misinformed. From AFP (via Google News): The Arab countries of the Gulf have dismissed as unjustified and political a recent US report which accused the rich countries of not combating human trafficking. Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), who met [...]

A Human Trafficking expert stated that natural disasters like the cyclone in Burma/Myanmar could lead to orphaned children being trafficked and exploited.  From the AP (via IHT): Natural disasters such as the cyclone in Myanmar can put children at risk for abuse and exploitation, a human trafficking expert said Monday. Eva Biaudet, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation [...]

5 teenage girls between the ages of 16 and 17in Canada were found to have been selling sex on the free classified website Craigslist, thus raising concerns about the spread of child prostitution on the Internet. From canada.com: Child prostitution in Vancouver has largely shifted from the streets to the Internet, Houghton said. “It’s moved successfully inside for [...]

Girls between the ages of 12 to 17 are being trafficked in Nigeria to work as domestic help. From the AFP: The trafficking of teenage girls from poor villages to northern Nigerian cities to work as domestic help for meagre wages is on the rise, officials said at the weekend. “The business of recruiting teenagers as domestic help [...]

$10 billion is generated based on the initial sale of a person. If the profits from the activities that is produced by the person who is trafficked is included, then the International Labour Organization (ILO) states that the market value of human trafficking stands at $32 billion, leading to a profit of $13,000 per trafficked person. Source: [...]

According to an article in The New Yorker, “one to two percent of all Moldovan migrants may find themselves trafficked at some point.” Source: William Finnegan, “The Countertraffickers,” New Yorker, May 5, 2008.