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.  
 

26 Oct 2006 07:19:03 GMT
DUBAI, 26 October (IRIN) - Mariam, 16, relives the day her father in Baghdad sold her off as a domestic worker in one of the prosperous Gulf nations. Instead, she was forced into the sex trade.

Irvine man gets three years; his ex-wife, 22 months.
By GREG HARDESTY
The Orange County Register
Santa Ana In Orange County's first federal prosecution of a human-trafficking case, an Irvine man was sentenced today to three years in prison and his former wife for 22 months for forcing a 10-year-old Egyptian girl to serve as their domestic servant for nearly two years.

PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court charged an American man with human trafficking and sexually abusing two underage Vietnamese girls. Myron Maboris, 46, a US citizen of South Korean origin, was arrested Wednesday after police raided his room at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh, said Keo Thea, deputy chief of the municipal anti-trafficking police.