NORTH AMERICA
Georgia: A professor points out Georgia's problem with child prostitution. While prostitution is illegal and a 13 year old child cannot consent to sex, she can be prostituted in Georgia at any time. What's more, Georgia rejected a bill that is similar to safe harbor law and that leaves out adolescent girls as offenders of prostitution law. The professor argues that our society, in which Miley Cyrus, a 16 year old celebrity, pole dances at a teen's choice award, needs to be educated on sexuality of young girls.
Florida: Authorities and nonprofits say state is becoming a hub of human trafficking. Authorities say human trafficking victims are often treated as criminals rather than witnesses and rarely use state statute to cover human trafficking. Therefore, traffickers are rarely arrested.
Michigan: A domestic minor sex trafficking survivor witnesses human trafficking can happen to anyone, even in a nice neighborhood. A survivor spoke at a conference about her experience as a victim. She was trafficked by a classmate who offered her a ride to her home from school. He, with an assistance of other men, drugged her and raped her. They also forced her into prostitution for two years, and the cycle stopped only after her dad got a job transfer out of the state.
EUROPE
Spain: Police arrested a Thai man who lured seven women for prostitution in Spain. During the raid, police rescued 20 women who were forced to work as prostitutes at a night club including the Thai women. Women were lured to come to Spain with a promise of a job at a traditional massage therapists but forced to work as prostitution upon arrival.
ASIA
Cambodia: A man was arrested for attempting to traffic 59 people including minors to Thai fishing industry.
Australia: Australia is urged to do more to combat human trafficking. As victims fear deportation or arrest, they usually too afraid to come forward. However, though there is no hard data available, Salvation Army estimates that there are more than 1000 victims trafficked to Australia every year.
Malaysia: A man and his three children were sentenced five years in jail for trafficking Burmese migrants. The 12 migrants trafficked by the man and his children include three children and two women.
New Zealand: American Samoan official supports human trafficking law in the island. Currently, there is no anti-human trafficking legislation available to criminalize human trafficking and involuntary servitude. In 2003, three people were arrested for keeping 200 Asians in involuntary servitude and starvation.
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