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PCMN partnered with World Hope International

PCMN has partnered with World Hope International’s Anti-Trafficking Program Director ( Asia ) Kristin Wiebe to conduct the training on Hands That Heal, an international curriculum to train caregivers of trafficking.... Read more

Dr. Kevin Bales Speaking at Anti-Trafficking Forum

Dr. Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves will give the keynote address at the opening banquet for Never Silent: The Abolitionist. Dr. Bales is a leading expert on modern day slavery and child trafficking. Learn more

Prosecutors Say Man Made $1.5M Trafficking Human Body Parts

LOS ANGELES — A man accused of buying and reselling human body parts donated to a university medical school reaped about $1.5 million in the scheme with the...continue reading.

60 nations meet in Bali to discuss how to end international smuggling and trafficking of human beings

The two-day ministerial conference, held on April 14-15, 2009, is part of a continuing "Bali Process" first commenced in 2002 to curb people smuggling, people trafficking and other forms of transnational crime. Co-chaired by the governments of Indonesia and Australia, the Bali meeting was financed by Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United States. Read more

Ashton Kutcher Twitters and Next Cause is Human Trafficking

Kutcher publicized his "chosen charity, www.malarianomore.org," and called attention to his next cause, fighting human trafficking. "Kutcher gets new media." Continue reading

Sara Groves Joins IJM on Capitol Hill to Advocate for Victims of Human Trafficking

INO Records’ Sara Groves recently returned from Washington, D.C. after meeting with the offices of Minnesota Congress and Senate Aides on behalf of International Justice Mission as a part of the Day of Advocacy. Continue reading

Lured at 13: Held Captive As a Sex Slave

Seduced online…even one mom's strict rules couldn't protect her daughter. Plus, a plea from America's Most Wanted's John Walsh. Get the facts you need to know. Read more

Slavery Reaches Historical High

Yemi Oshodi of World Hope International says it's hard to be sure of numbers since the trafficking world is so covert. But there are millions currently being trafficked as labor and sex slaves.

On May 8 and 9, World Hope International will hold a forum in Alexandria, Virginia to discuss human trafficking, in Cambodia specifically. The forum will help to raise awareness about modern day slavery, as well as provide examples of ways that everyone can get involved to put an end to it. Read more.

What Planet is Mars On?

35% of the world’s cocoa comes from the Ivory Coast, a nation in West Africa. Research supported by the ILO suggests that in the Ivory Coast alone there are at least 200,000 children working in slave conditions on cocoa farms. Thousands of these children have been trafficked into the Ivory Coast, originally from neighbouring countries such as Mali, Togo and Burkina Faso Read more.

United Nations Launches Handbook to Combat Trafficking

“Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians” – created in collaboration with IPU – contains a compilation of international laws and good practices developed to combat human trafficking, and offers guidance on how national legislation can be brought in line with international standards. Read more

Scientology Accused of Human Trafficking

In the Scientology world plaintiff experienced, 12-year-old children are taken from their homes, asked to sign employment contracts and put to work. . Read more

Pope Calls for Action to Stop Trafficking

Pope Benedict XVI today called for urgent global action to halt human trafficking, recalling last week's tragedy when more than 200 migrants heading for Europe drowned off the Libyan coast after their overloaded boat capsized.... Read More

No Specific Fed Funding for U.S. Trafficking Victims

In the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2008, Congress authorized tens of millions of dollars to fund services for U.S. citizen and foreign national victims of human trafficking in the U.S. None of these funds can be released until Congress passes a separate bill to appropriate the needed funds. Learn what you can do to help.

Blue Heart Campaign

United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) was launched two years ago to coincide with both the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.

March 25th is International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Read more