Lobbyist efforts halt resolution October 15, 2006

WASHINGTON -- After four years of writing to lawmakers and trooping up to Capitol Hill, the 2-million-strong Korean-American community was preparing to declare victory last month.

Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:43 AM BST

LONDON (Reuters) - The government should change immigration laws so that women brought into Britain for prostitution, and children for the drugs trade, are treated as victims not criminals, a parliamentary committee said on Friday.

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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.

The Steering Committee for the implementation of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Human Trafficking (COMMIT) made its debut in Hanoi on September 29.