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A Report by Save the Children Reveals Millions of Children Live as Child Slaves
On the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act, a new report by Save the Children reveals millions of children are still living as child slaves.

Indigenous People in Thailand Need Citizenship
The Thai government should grant indigenous people in Thailand their basic human rights to education, medical care and citizenship, Kerd Phanakamnerd, a representative of the working group for indigenous rights, told a conference in Chiang Mai.

MTV Networks in Asia & Pacific and MTV Europe Foundation Launch Youth-Focused Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign
MTV EXIT documentary programs will reach 380 million households with other artists.

UN Calls on Cambodia to Protect Land of Indigenous People
The United Nations criticized Cambodia's government for doing little to protect the land of indigenous people, whose livelihood has increasingly come under threat from land-grabbing by the rich and powerful.

Chinese Children Unite to Fight Trafficking
From the terraced countryside of Yunnan Province to the rapidly expanding industrial zones of the Eastern Seaboard, Chinese children - aged 11 through 17 - have come together to craft the country's first set of recommendations to combat human trafficking - drafted exclusively by and for young people.

Children Talk about How to Prevent Trafficking at the National Anti-Trafficking Children’s Forum
The national Anti-Trafficking Children’s Forum was held in Beijing from 26 to 29 July 2007.

UN Urges Ratanakkiri Court (Cambodia) to Act on Trafficking Case
Representatives from the UN human rights office in Phnom Penh urged Ratanakkiri Provincial Court to hasten their investigation of three men charged with human trafficking for assisting Montagnard asylum seekers, a court official said.

Council of Europe: Not for Sale Campaign
The Council of Europe Campaign to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings was launched in 2006 under the slogan Human Being – Not for Sale.

ECPAT Outlines Campaign Against Child Sex Tourism
You can do something about child sex tourism.

Meeting on Birth Registration and Statelessness hosted by UNESCO Bangkok
On 20 April 2007, UNESCO Bangkok hosted a meeting on birth registration and statelessness in Thailand.

Human Trafficking for Forced Labor Might Exceed Perception
Human trafficking for forced labor might be a greater problem than the more widely known problem of trafficking for sexual exploitation, says Kristiina Kangaspunta, the chief of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

UN Taps African Religious Leaders in Fight Against Human Trafficking
The United Nations is seeking to enlist religious groups in Africa in the war against human trafficking.

United Nations Highlights Human Trafficking
The UN has launched a campaign to highlight human trafficking, an issue it says has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade.

Millions of Girls and Women Are Still Deprived of their Freedom
Some 800,000 to 900,000 people worldwide are trafficked every year into forced labour and sexual exploitation, a highly lucrative global industry controlled by powerful criminal organizations, according to a collaborative report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

Join the International Coalition for Responsible and Respectful Tourism
International Coalition for Responsible and Respectful Tourism, Say No to Child Sex Tourism, Crime Without Borders.