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China 'will catch slave owners'
China has pledged to bring to justice traffickers who enslaved hundreds of children and adults to work in brick kilns in two provinces.

Cameroonian Couple Sentenced on Human Trafficking Charges in the U.S.
Evelyn and Joseph Djoumessi, both Cameroonian nationals, were sentenced by a judge in Detroit, Michigan, to 218 months and 60 months, respectively, for conspiracy related to their holding a young girl from Cameroon in involuntary servitude.  Judge Arthur Tarnow also ordered the defendants to pay $100,000 in restitution to the victim.

Thai Workers Complain of Exploitation in New Zealand
Labour Department bosses have stopped a horticultural contractor from recruiting more foreign workers, after eight Thais complained of exploitation.

Company in Pennsylvania, USA Accused of Trafficking
Workers from Thailand say they’ve been made into economic slaves by the company that brought them to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Looking for Better Life Puts Burmese Migrants at Risk in Thailand
Saw Wah* sat in the noisy, stifling darkness and hoped the Thai police manning the checkpoints would not discover him.

Men Working in Thai Fishing Industry Subject to Severe Exploitation
Sakda Seehawongs, an iron factory worker, was on his way home to Si Sa Ket.

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.

Targeting Human Trafficking
After years of shameful recalcitrance, New York will take the lead in the nation’s effort to combat sex and labor trafficking with a new law that targets this modern form of slavery.

Trafficking of Men in Thailand
The fight against human trafficking has for more than a decade tried to protect women and children, often forgetting that men, too, are victims of "new slavery".

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.

Dissemination Workshop on a Study into Exploitative Labour Brokerage Practices in Cambodia
On 16 March 2007 the Cambodian National COMMIT Taskforce, in cooperation with UNIAP-Cambodia, launched a Study into Exploitative Labour Brokerage Practices in Cambodia.

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).

Officials from Five Chinese Provinces Meet to Exchange Experiences with Preventing Trafficking
On 11 April 2007 in Hefei the All China Women’s Federation and the International Labour Organisation jointly held a conference to exchange experiences of Anhui Province’s All China Women’s Federation “National Anti-Trafficking Spring Rain Initiative”.

Palau Supreme Court Convicts "Carnival Four" In Forced Prostitution And Human Trafficking Case
Four foreign nationals have been convicted in the Republic of Palau of forty-seven criminal counts for offenses relating to prostitution, human trafficking and exploiting trafficked persons, marking Palau's first trial for human trafficking violations.

Vital Voices Conference in Hong Kong Discusses Labor Trafficking
It is "a disgrace" for Hong Kong to turn a blind eye to human trafficking, which involves millions of people worldwide, a Hong Kong University scholar says.