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U.S. Department of State Releases 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report
The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report on 170 countries is the most comprehensive worldwide report on the efforts of governments to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons.

Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking in Southern Africa
Policy makers and senior government officials from Southern Africa meet on 22 April 2008 in Durban to address the urgent need to set up adequate protection mechanisms for victims of trafficking in Southern Africa.

Human Trafficking Steps from the Shadows
On the eve of International Women’s Day, attention turns to the largely invisible issue of modern-day slavery  Bay Area residents were shocked when, in 2000, Berkeley landlord and restaurateur Lakireddy Bali Reddy was charged with smuggling minors into the United States and keeping them as sex slaves.

Human trafficking: Wanted, dead or alive
This is part four or five of a series I did on human trafficking.

Report Says California is Prime Target for Human Trafficking
Outreach efforts to victims of human trafficking were given new impetus by a recent California task force report that said the state is a prime target for trade in human beings.

'One Voice' Raises Awareness of Human Trafficking
"Human trafficking is modern-day slavery." This harrowing phrase begins the description of the kNOw Trafficking Campaign Launch on Facebook.

Burma Arrests Two over Human Trafficking
Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar, listed by Washington as among the world's worst human trafficking offenders, arrested a couple trying to smuggle four women to China, state media said.

Advocates Unite for Implementation of Anti-trafficking Law in Eastern Visayas, the Philippines
The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Local Technical Group and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity under the Strengthening the Enabling Environment to Improve Response to Trafficking in Persons and Related Cases (STEER) conducted a consultation meeting at Hotel Alejandro in Tacloban City, on Monday, January 7, 2008 and resolved to improve the coordination among the various stakeholders in government and in the private sector in the Region in order to effectively implement the Anti-Trafficking Law in the Region.

Strategies to Improve Response to Trafficking in Persons Developed in the Philippines
As part of the efforts to strengthen the enabling environment to improve response to cases of anti-trafficking of persons and related casesin Eastern Visayas, an anti-trafficking in persons local technical working group/ local project consultation meeting will be conducted on January 7, 2008 at 9:00 o'clock in the morning at the Leyte Park Resort Hotel in Tacloban City.

UN and East Timor Police Arrest 28 Over Possible Human Trafficking Situation
UN and East Timorese police have arrested 28 foreign nationals as part of investigations into illegal immigration and possible human trafficking, the UN mission here said.

UN Preventing Human Trafficking
Boi Ngoc is a young woman living in a remote farming village in South East Asia.

Welcome Remarks at the Second Inter-Ministerial Meeting of the COMMIT Process by Mr. Khalid Malik, United Nations Resident Coordinator
On 14 December 2007, the United Nations Resident Coordinator spoke to the second Inter-Ministerial Meeting of the COMMIT process.

China Improves Efforts to Combat Trafficking through Regional Mechanism
According to the press conference held by the Ministry of Public Security, ministers from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam signed the COMMIT Joint Declaration on 14 December 2007.

Human Trafficking Crackdown in Vietnam
Local authorities will intensify their operations in 2008 to stop the trafficking of women and children across the Chinese/Cambodian border.

Cambodia Approves Law on Anti-Human Trafficking
The Cambodian National Assembly unanimously approved the law on anti-human trafficking and sexual exploitation.