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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.

Slavery of Africans in Britain
Brought into the country under false identities and tricked into leaving their families with the promise of an education and a better future, hundreds of African children are being trafficked into the UK for a life of servitude, according to human rights campaigners.

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.

Police in UK Use iPods to Help Trafficking Victims
iPods will be used by police to help victims of human trafficking, cops revealed.

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).

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.

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.

Trafficking of African Women is Thriving
Trafficking of women from West Africa to Europe for sexual exploitation is thriving amid inaction from African governments, experts at a regional conference on the issue in Senegal.

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

UK Prepares for Possible Increase in Human Trafficking during 2012 Olympics
THE UK Home Office is drawing up plans to combat the human trafficking of prostitutes and illegal workers that it believes the 2012 Olympic Games in Stratford will attract.

UK Home Office Recognizes "Modern Slavery"
An end to the cruelty of modern day slavery was how the UK Home Office hailed the publication of an Action Plan to tackle Human Trafficking.

Sex Slavery Evident in the UK
There is evidence of thousands of children working in the sex trade in the UK.

UK Steps Up Action on Human Trafficking
The UK government has committed itself to tackling human trafficking by publishing its action plan to end the sale of women and children for labour and prostitution.

How to Tackle Human Trafficking in the UK
"Trafficked women are ordinary people who left home thinking they would be waitresses."  Zarin Hainsworth wants the media to raise awareness.

Increasing Number of Bosnian Women Fall Victim to Trafficking
The number of victims of human trafficking on territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina has been falling over recent years, but the share of female citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina falling victim to this crime is on the rise, Bosnian state co-ordinator of efforts aimed at countering human trafficking said.