South Dakota: A nonprofit group named "Be Free" plans to open a safe house for trafficking victims. The shelter will provide a space for 8 to 10 women and offer other services and support to them. According to the Be Free director, sex trafficking is underreported and is likely to increase in the state.
Georgia: Delta Airways becomes the first airline company to sign the code to fight against child trafficking. Upon agreement, the company pledges to train and educate employees to identify child trafficking victims so that the employees can report child trafficking incidents to the authority.
Colorado: Lawmakers tackles johns to crack down on prostitution. The new bill proposed will require the first offenders to attend johns school, where they will learn about human trafficking. As a result of participation to the program, the first offenders will be able to avoid jail sentence.
New York: Police arrested five women on the charges of prostitution during the undercover prostitution sting. One of them also was charged with endangering the welfare of child for bringing a 15 year old girl to engage in prostitution acts under her direction. They used the internet website, Backpage.com to set up a meeting with johns for commercial sexual services at motels.
LATIN AMERICA
Jamaica: Police rescued seven human trafficking victims and arrested one person on human trafficking charges last Friday. According to one former employee of the arrested individual, he was allegedly brought to Jamaica from India with a promise of a good job. However, upon arrival, his passport was confiscated and was forced to work for months without pay.
EUROPE
UK: A report reveals the reality of human trafficking in UK. Many sex traffickers bring women from abroad and forced them into prostitution. However, even if they are jailed for committing such horrendous crime, they rather brag about their wrong deeds. Also, children from Vietnam are trafficked to UK and exploited with labor in cannabis farm. One Vietnamese teenager came to UK with a promise of a good job and a new life, but ended up being locked up in a cannabis farm and exploited with labor. For many foreign victim cases, however, police is faced with difficulty to crack down on the crime because of language and cultural barriers.
ASIA
Malaysia: The national authority announced that over 300 people were arrested for human trafficking between February 2008 and February 2011. What's more, approximately 1900 people have been rescued during the same period. The government representative further warned the childless couples of child trafficking among adoption agencies.
The Philippines: The government launches a hotline for human trafficking victims. The hotlines will be available for 24 hours to the victims in Manila City and providences in emergency situations.
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