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Global human trafficking highlights (Nov. 5, 2009)
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NORTH AMERICA
Feds reach out 14 cities including Saint Paul, Minnesota to assist human trafficking victims. ICE attempts to draw the attention of public to the victims through posters, announcements, etc. Las Vegas's Asian community begins its fight against human trafficking. A leader of an Asian Woman's rights advocacy group pointed the cultural and language barriers as the biggest obstacles on the victims' identification.
LATIN AMERICA
Three Mexican doctors are accused of selling newborns. The babies was sold to another woman for $1130 U.S. dollars. The police arrested the woman who bought the baby from the hospital along with the doctors and the nurses.
In Fiji, the trial of four individuals accused of trafficking people from India began today. They allegedly brought Indian nationals to Fiji with the promise of helping them find a job in Australia and New Zealand
EUROPE
In Greece, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon highlighted human trafficking of women and children as one of the three challenges the world during the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)
ASIA
Radio Free Asia reported today that 50% of migrants from Burma in Thailand are illegal. The report also emphasized the extreme povery in Burma as the primary cause behind the migration of Burmese to Thailand.
In the Philippines, four teenagers in the age of 13, 14, and 15 were rescued from human trafficking rings.
AFRICA
Zambia denied the bail of a former Namibian regional director arrested on the allegation of human trafficking.
In Uganda, police reported that statistics in ritual murder and human trafficking have decreased since Jan. 2009. The
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