Trafficking case exposes child servitude
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The teen slept on a rolled-up mattress on the dining room floor and bathed in the backyard with a garden hose. For six years, she washed dishes, made beds and cooked for a family that beat her and hid her in a closet when visitors arrived. She never went to school.
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Actor Kevin Kline's new film on the epidemic trafficking of human beings, with girls forced into prostitution and children into slave labor, opened on Wednesday at the United Nations.
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On the eve of the second anniversary of the death of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, a new report finds that higher caseloads have overwhelmed Family Court, where abuse and neglect cases are decided.
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A high-end childrenâs clothing and toy store in Manhattan helps support the Childrenâs Aid Society, not only with money but also with job-training.
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Antoine Borg, 23, of St Andrew's, was yesterday charged with trafficking people in or out of Malta.
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Moves to protect children from unscrupulous dealers in adoption.
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MASERU, 1 December (IRIN) - The preliminary findings of a study on child domestic workers in Lesotho, forced onto the job market by poverty and HIV/AIDS, has uncovered the sometimes &quot;highly abusive nature&quot; of their relationship with employers.
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A &quot;miracle baby&quot; allegedly born to an infertile mother through the power of prayer was a victim of child trafficking motivated by financial greed, a high court judge ruled yesterday.
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Ten young children are taken into care and 25 people held in raids targeting suspected gangs and child trafficking.
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The Justice Department is creating a unit to pursue human trafficking cases that often involve foreigners smuggled into the United States for forced labor or prostitution, the attorney general said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations Children's Fund  confirmed a case in Indonesia of trafficking in children  orphaned or separated from parents by the Indian Ocean tsunami  as ravaged countries were warned to be on high alert for  kidnappers.
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A campaign urging people to be more aware of human trafficking is being formally launched.
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When authorities raided a traditional shrine and found blood-drenched magic charms along with a register listing young girls sold into prostitution, they were closing in on Nigeria's first conviction for human trafficking.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  the injured and the homeless, many of them children, out of  some of the worst-hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province  on Monday, as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from  the disaster.
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At the Roodepoort Child Welfare Society, their caseload has risen from between 60 and 80 a year to well over 1,000.
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WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) - Predominantly foreign male workers who relocated to  build massive oil and gas projects, combined with feeble gender  policies, have brought prostitution, human trafficking, poverty,  HIV/AIDS and greater burdens for local communities around those  projects, new research finds.
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Natural disasters around the world   last year disrupted the lives of millions of children, pushing   many into armed conflicts, prostitution, drug trafficking and   other dangerous occupations, according to a new U.S. government   report on child labor.