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Human Trafficking Victims in Bahrain Difficult to Find
MIGRANT workers' rights activists say they are helpless when it comes to assisting victims of human trafficking in Bahrain to benefit from the government's general amnesty.

Thai Woman Wins Landmark Compensation in Australian Sex-Trafficking Case
An Australian tribunal has awarded compensation to a Thai woman who was forced to work as a prostitute in Sydney when she was 13.

Uzbek Trafficking Victims in Thailand
The entrance to Alibaba's - the popular discotheque and thumping underworld of one of Nana's longest-running, most belovedly lawless hotels - opens, portentously enough, with a "No Firearms" sign and a guard who is quick to frisk down any customer trying to slip in with a private bottle of whiskey (don't bother).

Thai Government and International Organizations Pledge Cooperation to Provide Assistance to Victims
Two months after psychiatric treatment that included shock therapy, the 24-year-old woman is much recovered.

Funds Earmarked for Young American Prostitutes in Atlanta
$140,000 will fund assessment centers in five counties, but isn't enough for the emergency shelter advocates.

Human Trafficking Victims Give Testimony in Tetovo Court, Macedonia
Ten women of foreign nationality, including Bulgarians and a Serb, were brought in for questioning before an investigative judge in a competent Tetovo Court relating the Oriental As case, Makfax's correspondent reported.

Sexual Exploitation in Italy
There is a side to the Eternal City that most of us are loathe to acknowledge.

Thai Workers Sue North Carolina Contractor
As a farmer in Thailand, Muangmol Asanok often made less than $500 a year.

Thais Receive Compensation and Visas in Los Angeles Human Trafficking Case
A group of Thais brought to the United States by a suspected labor trafficker accused of forcing them to live in squalor while working for little or no pay will be compensated under a consent decree reached between the federal government and a Northern California steel company.

Protecting Young Women from Human Trafficking in VietNam
Nguyen Thi Phuong cherishes her new role as a mother.

Philippines Strengthens Capacity to Combat Human Trafficking
A new super body under the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) will help monitor, entrap, apprehend, investigate and prosecute persons involved in human trafficking or the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of people for exploitation.

Human Trafficking Being Debated in Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Law enforcement officials say one of the fastest growing crimes in Maryland and the entire nation is the forced labor and sex trade of human beings known as human trafficking.

Human Trafficking Legislation Proposed in Maine
Proposed legislation in the state of Maine would make it easier to police cases of human trafficking through the New Brunswick border, its backers say.

Kentucky Legislature Approves Anti-Human Trafficking Bill
A bill to ban human trafficking in Kentucky won final legislative passage in the House, a victory for groups that say cases of forced labor or exploitation have begun to surface in the state.

Thai Agencies in Southern Thailand Cooperate to Combat Human Trafficking
Representatives from government offices and related organizations from the six Andaman Coastal provinces of Phuket, Phang-Nga, Krabi, Ranong, Trang and Satun attended a meeting to learn about a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and how to work together on the human trafficking issues for the region.