Law on trafficking urgent to curb vice, says IOM

Daily Nation
Kenya urgently needs a specific anti-human trafficking legislation to address the rising dangers posed by human traffickers, an international aid agency has said.
Protracted emergencies in the country, such as drought, hunger, civil and political unrests both internally and in neighbouring countries, have led to an increase in forced displacement, perfect conditions for trafficking, the [...]

Africa fights the ‘people trade’

Africa Renewal
Scourge of human trafficking ensnares hundreds of thousands
By Michael Fleshman
When 20-year-old Isoke Aikpitanyi was offered a job in Italy in 2000 she leapt at the chance. Life was difficult at home in Nigeria and opportunities for young women were limited and few. She knew that she would have to enter the country illegally and [...]

What is The Weekend To End Slavery?

At The End of Slavery Website
What is The Weekend To End Slavery?
The Weekend to End Slavery will be two days of united effort across the United States to educate communities about slavery and mobilize the movement to end this abuse in our lifetime.

Weekend to End Slavery

At The End of Slavery Website
What is The Weekend To End Slavery?
The Weekend to End Slavery will be two days of united effort across the United States to educate communities about slavery and mobilize the movement to end this abuse in our lifetime.

During the Weekend to End Slavery, November 14 and 15, people around the [...]

Fair Trade Chocolate on Halloween!

On Halloween, chocolate is the tastiest of treats. Yet, in reality, our favorite candy is bitter sweet…

284,000 children toil in abusive labor conditions in West Africa’s cocoa field, many trafficked from neighboring countries
Cocoa companies pay prices so low that many cocoa farmers cannot meet their families’ basic needs

Will you help spread the word on [...]

Fair Trade Chocolate on Halloween!

On Halloween, chocolate is the tastiest of treats. Yet, in reality, our favorite candy is bitter sweet…
284,000 children toil in abusive labor conditions in West Africa’s cocoa field, many trafficked from neighboring countries
Cocoa companies pay prices so low that many cocoa farmers cannot meet their families’ basic needs
Will you help spread the word on the [...]

U.S. Labor Department issues reports on international child labor and forced labor

ILAB News Release: [09/10/2009]
Contact Name: Clarisse Young
Phone Number:(202) 693-5051
Release Number: 09-0946-NAT
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) today released three reports on child labor and/or forced labor in countries around the globe. The documents include the initial “List of Goods Produced by Child or Forced Labor” required by the [...]

Nigeria-Italy Human Trafficking Rises Sharply

One World
ROME, Sep 11 (IPS) – An alarming rise has been recorded in the number of Nigerian girls trafficked to Italy.
Last year 1,782 young girls from Nigeria arrived in Lampedusa, compared to 166 in 2007, human rights organisations say. Lampedusa, an Italian island 205 km from the Italian coast, located between Tunisia and Sicily, is [...]

U.S. Labor Department issues reports on international child labor and forced labor

News Release
ILAB News Release: [09/10/2009]
Contact Name: Clarisse Young
Phone Number:(202) 693-5051
Release Number: 09-0946-NAT
U.S. Labor Department issues reports on international child labor and forced labor
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) today released three reports on child labor and/or forced labor in countries around the globe. The documents include the initial [...]

“The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today”

Democracy Now
We speak with Kevin Bales, a leader in the abolition movement to end modern-day slavery and co-author of The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today. Bales estimates some 27 million people labor as slaves today—more than at anytime in history. Bales has also helped expose modern-day slavery in the United [...]