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Global human trafficking highlights (Nov. 18th, 2009)
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NORTH AMERICA
Maryland: an expert says that Shaniya Davis case sheds light on the issue of child sex trafficking in the U.S. She also indicated that it is rampant in Maryland as well.
Georgia: Two men were indicted on a charge of trafficking a 14 years old teenage girl and selling her for 500 dollars to another man. The girl told the police that she even had 10 or 15 men lined up to have sex with her at one point.
New York: A female Mexican national was sentenced 121 months in prison for participating in an organization forcing young women into sex slavery in New York.
Minnesota: Woodbury city Safety Department attempts to develop an ordinance regulating massage parlor in the city. Currently, Minnesota has no legislation regulating massage parlor in the state.
Oregon; Senator seeks bill to ban human trafficking. The proposed legislation will give 2.5 million dollars to put traffickers behind the bar and provide greater protection and support for victims.
EUROPE
England: The Coalition of European Law Enforcement agencies arrested 23 human trafficking suspects yesterday. According to the investigator, the ring is part of the global network of human trafficking. The British authority also suspected that the human trafficking ring transported more than 2000 migrants mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Denmark: Anti-human trafficking organizations noticed the increase in number of trafficking victims as well as prostitutes. They also indicated the rise on the number of personal sex slaves brought to the country. A Nigerian woman, for instance, was captivated fro two months in a remote Danish farm until she escaped a few months ago.
ASIA
Kazakhstan: The police arrested four suspected human traffickers and rescued 16 young female sex trafficking victims. The victims were from all over the Central Asian regions including Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
The Philippines: An authority advocates a tighter border security in the country to fight against transnational crimes including human trafficking. Also, the lawmakers considered illegalizing the Filipinos from working in Middle eastern countries as domestic workers. According to the fact finder, they are subject to sexual and physical abuses by the Middle eastern citizens.
Bangladesh: A girl testified her experience as a sex trafficking victim to India. She was trafficked at the age of 11 years old and worked as a sex slave for two years in India. During that time, she contracted HIV entertaining 5 or 10 customers a day.
AFRICA
Zambia: Five Bangladesh nationals were arrested for entering Zambia illegally. They were allegedly entering the country with a help of a man connected to a cartel involving human trafficking.
Sierra Leone: The country clamps down on the issue of human trafficking. A few years ago, the authorities' response to human trafficking in the country was lukewarm. It is a progress that they began to take an action against human trafficking in the country.
South Africa: An authority blames the country's rampant human trafficking on lax border control.
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