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Rescue/Escape

News and Updates

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.

200 Thais Flee Their Traffickers in Bahrain Every Year
An average of 200 Thai women, forced into prostitution in Bahrain, escape their pimps and are sent back to Thailand each year, it was revealed.

Couple Held Captive Two Servants for Years in New York
Federal prosecutors charged a wealthy Long Island couple on Tuesday with keeping two Indonesian domestic workers as virtual prisoners in their home for more than five years under conditions they called “modern-day slavery,” beating one severely and paying them very little.

Massage Parlours Raided in Kansas City, Missouri; Trafficking Suspected
Federal agents and local police in Johnson County, Missouri raided 12 businesses and four homes on 10 May 2007, rescuing 15 women from ‘massage parlors'.

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

Group Works to Rescue Burmese Victims of Human Trafficking in China
An ethnic Kachin women’s group says it is seeking to rescue numerous women it believes are victims of human trafficking who left to work in China and whose whereabouts are now unknown.

Trafficking Ring Broken in Taiwan
A Vietnamese woman is rescued from a situation of trafficking in Taiwan.

Brothel Raids Expose Problem of Slavery in US
Raids that uncovered more than 70 suspected sex slaves focused on 20 brothels in the East, but they illustrated a long-ignored national problem found in towns large and small, experts say.

Two International Sex-Trafficking Rings Foiled in the United States
A total of 40 charged in sex trafficking rings on East and West Coasts.

US Department of Health and Human Services Holds Webcast: Rescue and Restore Victims of Trafficking
The Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Campaign in Health Resources and Services Administration's Office of Women's Health (Department of Health and Human Services) and in partnership with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and the Office of Public Health and Science's Office on Women's Health held a Web case on how to identify victims of trafficking in the United States.

24-hour Hotline Operational in Thailand1
A 24-hour call centre set up to help tackle human trafficking and provide assistance to the public on social problems became operational on 29 July 2005 following a successful trial period.

United States Department of Health and Human Services Announces Anti-Trafficking Hotline
On March 11, 2004, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G.