Trafficking

Transportation Industry’s Tentative Steps to Fight Trafficking Must Go Further

By Mellissa Withers ● Commentary ● May 25, 2017

While there are encouraging examples of individuals, organizations and states that have taken steps to raise awareness of and combat human trafficking, more needs to be done.

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NY Rights Bill Alive; Sudan Chains Mom Facing Death

By WeNews Staff ● Uncategorized ● May 24, 2014

A series of bills that would protect women’s rights in New York state are being reintroduced into the Senate. Also this week, the pregnant woman sentenced to death in Sudan is being shackled.

When You Shop, Try to Leave Out All the Slavery

By Diana Mao ● Employment ● April 24, 2014

As consumers, we shouldn’t need tragedies like last year’s factory collapse in Bangladesh to wake us up and realize that what we buy matters. Nomi, the group I cofounded, helps you join the positive ripple effect of women leaving sex traffic and forging better lives.

Video: Super Bowl Brings NYC Trafficking Warning

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● January 31, 2014

“The GIFT Box,” a sidewalk exhibit about the dangers of human trafficking, has been on display in New York in the week leading up to the Super Bowl on Sunday, being held a few miles away in New Jersey.

Texas Dems Defy Perry; Cairo Protestors Assaulted

By WeNews Staff ● Uncategorized ● July 5, 2013

Texans are protesting Gov. Rick Perry’s efforts to pass an abortion bill. But sex assaults have returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square amid the renewed protests.

Nepal’s Sex Industry Boom Lures Young Jobseekers

By Bijoyeta Das ● Uncategorized ● February 9, 2013

Thousands of young women each year are lured into Kathmandu’s booming and unregulated sex industry that operates out of cafes and bars. Many arrive with hopes of saving money and going home, but the wages are often too meager for that to ever happen.

Malawi Prez Pushes Repro Rights; Yemenis Worse Off

By WeNews Staff ● Uncategorized ● September 28, 2012

Malawi President Joyce Banda (left) and Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at a women's rights event. — Malawi President Joyce Banda (left) and Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at a women’s rights event.

Philippine U.S. Consulate Faces Trafficking Heat

By Samantha Kimmey ● Uncategorized ● September 15, 2012

A Filipina trafficked by a Kuwaiti diplomat spoke out last week about her abuse. A New York advocacy group that helped her win a settlement is staging a Sept. 21 demonstration to prod her country’s U.S. consulate to help victims like her.

Obama Packs the Bench; Virginia Board OKs New Regs

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● September 15, 2012

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan

Credit: Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, Talk Radio News Service on Flickr, under Creative Commons.

Study Details Sex-Traffic in Post-Saddam Iraq

By Hajer Naili ● Crime & Law ● November 8, 2011

Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq thousands of women and girls have been trafficked for sexual exploitation, finds a report published today by the London-based Social Change Through Education in the Middle East.