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(By Peter Strong) - Workshops and events aim to help students impact society: Students and the community are invited to learn about how they can
create a positive change in the world this week, as OSU's third annual
Social Change Conference takes place on campus.
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Sold, tricked, or kidnapped, victims of human trafficking are subjected to horrendous physical and psychological mistreatment by their captors, buyers, and patrons. Taken against their will, the bodies and labor of these modern day slaves are commodified and sold on the world market.
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VNS Feb. 21 - The Hanoi People's Court sentenced ten individuals to five-to-13 years in prison for human trafficking activities.
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced two women
to prison for smuggling 16 women to Malaysia and other countries in the
region and forcing them to work as prostitutes, state-controlled media
reported Tuesday.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 SFGate (Meridith May) - The leaders of an underground
network that transported women from Asia to the South Bay to work as
massage parlor prostitutes pleaded guilty today to federal conspiracy and
money laundering charges.
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Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights
The Chains That Remain: The Nature of Human Trafficking in a Global Context
April 6-9, 2006
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The Japan Times: Feb. 10, 2006 - Police in 2005 made arrests in or turned over to prosecutors 81 cases of alleged trafficking of foreign women, the National Police Agency said
Thursday.
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Feb. 9, 2006 (ABC News) - Fifteen-year-old "Debbie" is the middle child in a
close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student
-- the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the seamy world
of sex trafficking.
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Ho Chi Minh City , Feb 10 (IPS) - Searching Nguyen Thi Hien's house in the northern province of Lai Chaau, last November, police discovered a diary in which she had meticulously recorded the names of 142 Vietnamese women that she had sold into sexual slavery in China.
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The Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Brides Office (VMWBO) runs three shelters. The shelters are established to provide refuge for brides as well as migrant workers. Residents include victims of labor exploitations and sexual abuses as well as brides who are abused by their husbands and/or in-laws.
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