Every day of the year, there are human rights violations against people all over the world. Women, children and men are being raped, abused, exploited, tortured and persecuted, beyond our imaginations in places close to home like Vietnam and even here in the United States.

It must be stopped.

On December 9^th, 2006, the evening before Universal Human Rights Day, a collaboration of passionate and motivated individuals and organizations including the Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking (VietACT) will organize an evening of awareness.                                                     

By John E. Carey
November 17, 2006

President Bush is making an historic visit to Vietnam this weekend. While the agenda is crowded with discussion of trade, North Korea, Iraq, the War Against Terror and other issues, American Human Rights activists are pressing for the United States to make stronger statements about Vietnam's record on human rights.

Let's Respect Human Dignity of Foreign Wives

``Marry Vietnamese Women’’ _ says advertisement placards set up in the countryside and on the outskirts of metropolises. And many Korean men follow the advice: In 2000, there were only 95 Korean-Vietnamese couples, but the number has rocketed to more than 10,000 in just five years. The government might as well thank its Vietnamese counterpart for helping to solve the problem of numerous rural bachelors. The problems are a very inhumane matchmaking process and many unhappy marriages.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National MultiCultural Institute (NMCI) announces that its ground breaking web portal, http://www.humantraffickingsearch.net is now multilingual and includes online videos through its Human Trafficking TV.

POSTED: 5:02 pm EST November 2, 2006
UPDATED: 9:23 am EST November 3, 2006

VERNON, Conn. -- Vernon police conducted a raid Thursday at the New Seoul Spa on Talcottville Road.

Police said women working at the massage parlor offered undercover officers sex for money.

Thursday, November 02 2006 @ 06:14 PM GMT National 
In a move to formalize the Republic of the Philippines-United States' stance on the Anti-Trafficking in Person (TIP) drive, the US granted US$ 250,000 to the Philippine Ports Authority-Ports Management Office (PPA-PMO) in Davao recently to intensify the anti-trafficking campaign nationwide.

ASSOCIATED PRESS 11:25 p.m. October 29, 2006

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A police officer from San Francisco has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a girl in Cambodia, officials said Monday.
Ngeth Sarath, a prosecutor of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, said that on Sunday he formally charged Donald Rene Ramirez, 50, with debauchery for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old ethnic Vietnamese girl. 

By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press Writer October 30, 2006, 8:16 PM EST
NEW YORK -- A Cambodian human rights activist who has dedicated her life to rescuing women and girls from sexual slavery said Monday she hopes that being honored as one of Glamour magazine's women of the year will help draw attention to her cause.

By Diane Huber The Olympian

OLYMPIA - Trong and Rani Hong believe their connection was sealed long before a blind date between an Olympia High School sophomore and a college freshman.

The Olympia couple flew to Chicago last week to tell "The Oprah Winfrey Show" their stories - that of a boy who shipwrecked on an unknown Indonesian island, and an Indian girl who was sold into slavery.

By (AND) - www.andnetwork.com 
 
At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.