Texas: A 33 year old mother and a survivor of sex trafficking shares her experience as a sex slave. She arrived in San Antonio from Honduras a few years ago to support her children. Instead, she was lured by another woman who forced her into prostitution. The woman threatened her that she will report her to immigration office and hurt her child if she refused to prostitute. The case is still under investigation.
Minnesota: The new bill is proposed to protect child prostitution victims. The new bill, if implemented, will treat prostituted children as victims rather than juvenile delinquents. If Minnesota lawmakers pass the legislation, it becomes only the fifth state in the nation to make this plan into law.
Michigan: Federal agents suspect that Grand Rapid prostitution ring case may be connected to human trafficking. In this case, a man allegedly ran the prostitution ring in Grand Rapid, one of several in four states. According to the report, all women were in debt as they were told to repay the smuggling fees. They had to pay the house manager for costs of food and other living expenses.
EUROPE
Finnland: Foreign workers are increasingly exploited with labor in Finland. Many labor trafficking of foreign workers take place in cleaning and household service sectors, according to the report. Many victims are hired by private citizens. They often receive small wages and live under very poor conditions. According to the immigration status, most victims are from the Philippines recruited for domestic chores.
ASIA
China: Human trafficking in China is on the rise, according to a watchdog. More than 130 human trafficking cases were documented along the borderline between China and Burma last year. According to some source, parents are selling their daughters to traffickers for $1800 to pay off their debts.
Philippines: A 30 year old man was arrested for transporting eight women for prostitution. According to the report, he picked up women in the age between and 18 and 23 in Manilla and took them to Coron, where his mother runs a videoke bar. An authority says that the videoke bar caters tourists, mostly Americans. However, the man denied the allegation.
Documentary - "Innocents Lost" reveals about the kidnapped, sold, starved, beaten and set to work round the clock, surviving on rubbish tips and road sides; given to the gods as punishment for a sin committed by a family member; neglected and written off as worthless; dumped in Gulags for stealing a loaf of bread. These are the innocents who are lost. "Innocents Lost" is a hard-hitting documentary film about crimes against children around the world. This documentary brings to the screen the faces and voices of children who are, for a brief moment, given a chance to be heard, a space to speak of their silent unhappiness.
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