NORTH AMERICA
United States: Flight attendants in the U.S. train other flight attendants abroad how to recognize human trafficking victims. They also work with Innocent at Risk, a nonprofit group fighting human trafficking to provide brochures showing hotlines and details on how to recognize human trafficking victims.
Chicago: Teens are sold into prostitution by pimps, family members or even boyfriends. Sometimes, children are forced into prostitution by their foster parents. Numerous researches analyzing the situation of domestic minor trafficking in Chicago are presented on the report.
Georgia: Public hearing is set on massage parlor rules in Macon. The ordinance would require any employees in massage parlor and bodywork shops to be state-licensed massage therapists to obtain a business license. The rule is also aimed at fighting against human trafficking and prostitution involved in massage parlors.
Washington: The founder of Shared Hope International, Linda Smith, assist the lawmakers to pass the bill to punish John and prevent victims from revictimization. According to the report, teenagers become incarcerated over and over again while Johns are waved off. The bill, if implemented, would allow John's vehicle to be impounded. Also, the teens would be sent to social services upon first offense and would not be treated as criminal offenders.
EUROPE
Austria: Prostitution ring was broke in Vienna last week. Police arrested several individuals on the charges of human trafficking and forced prostitution. One of them was a Croatian citizen.
ASIA
Cambodia: Police raid massage parlors in Ratanakkiri. The authorities shut down 27 karaoke and massage parlors. The authority also said that he was concerned that the employees would be lured into another false promise of traffickers if they ended up not finding a job.
AFRICA
Somaliland: Human trafficking is on the rise in the country. Children are trafficked from south central Somalia, where government authority does not exist. Most children ended up begging on the street forced by the people who claim themselves to be their parents.
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