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IOM reports child trafficking and labor trafficking cases are rising
Child victims of human trafficking helped by IOM increased to 2,040 in 2011, up 27 per cent from 1,565 in 2008, according to new IOM data.

UN General Assembly President calls for redoubled efforts to end human trafficking
The President of the 66th United Nations General Assembly His Excellency Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser today called on Member States, civil society, the private sector and the media to step up efforts to bring an end to human trafficking, calling it "an appalling form of human rights abuse".

U.N.: 2.4 Million Human Trafficking Victims
The UN crime-fighting office announced that 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking at any one time, and 80 percent of them are being exploited as sexual slaves.

How to End Sex Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
An interview with Siddharth Kara, fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and one of the world’s foremost experts on human trafficking and modern day slavery, covers the evolution of Kara’s anti-trafficking efforts, and the current landscape of these issues, challenges and opportunities to making progress.

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

Prostitution Fueling Exploitation of Women
The evil of human trafficking is receiving attention in many countries around the world...The illegal trade is carried out either to provide cheap labor or for the sex industry, although it is the latter that is receiving more attention.

Lucy Liu Presents MTV Human Trafficking Documentary
Actress Lucy Liu, star of the new ABC series Cashmere Mafia, will present Traffic: An MTV EXIT Special, a documentary on human trafficking that premieres in Singapore today.

Call for Papers - St. Antony's International Review (STAIR)
Associated Editor of the St Antony's International Review (STAIR), a peer-reviewed academic journal of international affairs based here at St Antony's College, University of Oxford has issued a call for papers.

UN Anti-Trafficking Drive Hits Culture Barriers
Global efforts to crack down on human trafficking are handicapped by lack of information from countries whose cultures have not deemed some forms of slavery to be a crime, U.N.

Former US Ambassador Criticizes UN for Promoting Sex Trafficking in Peacekeeping Missions
A former US ambassador accused the United Nations of being among the major promoters of human trafficking in the world by failing to halt sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers.

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).

Millions of Girls and Women Are Still Deprived of their Freedom
Some 800,000 to 900,000 people worldwide are trafficked every year into forced labour and sexual exploitation, a highly lucrative global industry controlled by powerful criminal organizations, according to a collaborative report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

United Nations Highlights Human Trafficking
The UN has launched a campaign to highlight human trafficking, an issue it says has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade.

UN Fund to Combat Human Trafficking
The United Nations proposed a new global fund to fight international human trafficking and forced labor, a problem that it said had grown to epidemic proportions and was rarely effectively prosecuted by governments.

Join the International Coalition for Responsible and Respectful Tourism
International Coalition for Responsible and Respectful Tourism, Say No to Child Sex Tourism, Crime Without Borders.