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dpa German Press Agency
Published: Friday October 6, 2006
Hanoi- A 22-year-old Vietnamese woman who was trafficked into China as a child has been arrested on charges she herself sold girls as young as 14 over the border, police and local press said Friday. Le Thi Cuc was taken into custody Wednesday by Chinese police after a joint investigation and handed over to Vietnamese authorities, according to a Hanoi police investigator.
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The Steering Committee for the implementation of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Human Trafficking (COMMIT) made its debut in Hanoi on September 29.
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Europe's first dedicated centre for victims of people trafficking has opened in Sheffield.
The Human Trafficking Centre will aim to provide specialist care for the victims - mostly women brought from abroad and forced into prostitution.
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SAN JOSE – A photo documentary show and exhibition will take place at the Green Rice Gallery entitled "Humans For Sale - A Photo Documentary" on Friday, October 6th, 2006, 8pm. According to the event’s organizers, the “exhibition seeks to put a human face on a human trade.” The photographs are compiled from Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.
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Reverend Peter Nguyen Van Hung escaped an authoritarian regime in Vietnam and has waged war against the persecution of Vietnamese workers and brides in Taiwan
By Ron Brownlow, STAFF REPORTER
Sunday, Oct 01, 2006, Page 18
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(Theo thông lệ hàng năm, Mạng Lưới Nhân Quyền VN (MLNQ) tổ chức cuộc họp long trọng vinh danh các tổ chức, cá nhân đấu tranh cho nhân quyền VN. Ngày 25/9/2006, MLNQ ra Thông Cáo mời cộng đồng Việt tham dự buổi dạ tiệc vinh danh, nội dung như sau).
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By Chung Li-hua
STAFF REPORTER , WITH CNA
Monday, Sep 25, 2006,Page 2
Foreign workers participate in a masquerade parade near the Church of St Christopher in Taipei yesterday to mark the 10th Immigrant Workers Day initiated by the Catholic Church.
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2006/9/22
KUALA LUMPUR, AFP
Police have rescued hundreds of Asian women in recent years who have been trafficked into Malaysia and forced into prostitution, the country's police chief said Thursday.
Inspector-General of Police, Musa Hassan, said the women were from countries including Indonesia, China, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam, with Indonesians making up the highest numbers.
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Contact: Patrick Creamer for the House Committee on International Relations, 202-225-3765
News Advisory:
BACKGROUND: Vice-Chairman Chris Smith (R-N.J.), will preside over a hearing of the House International Relations Committee on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006 at 10 a.m. to examine private, governmental and intergovernmental efforts to eradicate human trafficking.
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Friday, September 15, 2006 · Last updated 1:20 a.m. PT
By ANDREW GLAZER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Ngoc Bich Nguyen's mother was lured far from Vietnam by the promise of a high-paying factory job that she hoped would allow both of her daughters to attend college.
Instead, she ended up in a Samoan sweatshop, a victim of smugglers who enslaved her and about 250 other desperate women from China and Vietnam.
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