Missouri: A man was sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in labor trafficking scheme. He was convicted of providing an expertise on how to exploit temporary work visa. The scheme brought 1000 workers from abroad, exploited them with labor, and placed them in a poor living condition.
Canada: Police have arrested six men and two women for trafficking in person. The arrests were made during the investigation, Rescue Innocence that police rescued several women and girls from sex industry. The victims' age ranged between 14 and 23.
Rhode Island: The state's first indoor human trafficking case was settled in Superior Court. The two defendants who are convicted of running a prostitution ring out of an apartment received the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. According to the Attorney General, the case shows that prostitution is not limited to immigrants sold into servitude.
EUROPE
Ireland: A Nigerian woman was charged with running a brothel in Dublin. She was arrested during the Garda National Immigration Bureau's Operation Mast investigation. The police also rescued 11 victims and arrested 40 others during the two year long investigation.
ASIA
Thailand: Authorities raided two brothels that exploited underage girls on Wednesday. During the raid, they rescued more than 30 children in the age between 14 and 17 from Laos. According to the report, the children were lured into working at brothels and prostituted under debt-bondage. The traffickers also starve the children until they were willing to prostitute themselves.
AFRICA
Angola: The vice Attorney General said that Angola lacks the legislation to combat human trafficking. He mentioned that the National Assembly is working on a new and more effective legislation to fight against the crime. He also pledged to train the staff in his department to combat human trafficking.
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