Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed intent of governments around the world to put an end to "modern day slavery", there is very ...
Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the micro-pro...
About 60 suspected human trafficking victims had been smuggled across the border "with the promise that they would have a good-paying job and a place to stay," officials said. Jul 27, 2023 More than 1,000 trafficking victims rescued in Southeast Asia ...
Ford, Michele, Lenore Lyons and Willem van Schendel. Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming.Ford, M., L . Lyons and W. van Schendel (eds). 2012. Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: ...
The European Union and United Nations abruptly rescheduled the launch of an anti-human trafficking program this week after being confronted with questions on the choice of venue: a Phnom Penh hotel owned by a Cambodian tycoon who has another property tha
the Philippines on Human Trafficking Spurs More Initiatives In Southeast Asia, Child Sex Trade Goes on Unabated Japan to Tighten Rules on Foreign Entertainers Millions of Asian Children Living in Stateless Limbo UPCOMING EVENTS International Conference on Child Labour, Abuse and Neglect(20 June 2006 –...
Myanmar government has set up a liaison office for anti-human trafficking with its counterpart in China and Thailand while participating in cooperation with six countries in the Mekong region and member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ...
Forcing children and handicapped people to beg on streets is also a common form of labor trafficking (Cherneva, 2011). In some instances, children who might be healthy are purposely maimed to seem more sympathetic; for example, some homeless or poor children in South Asia are purposefully blind...
Myanmar government has set up an anti-human trafficking police force unit in border areas, participating in cooperation with six countries in the Mekong region and member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Under the 2005 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law, people who smu...
The article proceeds as follows: Section 2 firstly defines human trafficking and forced labour, before making the suggestion that the trafficking of fishermen for forced labour may be understood within the broader context of fisheries crime. Section 3 provides empirical evidence in support of a fisher...