Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) – The four young Haitians told legal authorities that they were offered complete scholarships to the university, but that once they reached Ecuador they were locked up in a house and made to pay 150 dollars a month for rent [...]
ARGENTINA: Proposal to Go after Clients of Sex Trafficking Victims
February 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Feb 25, 2011 (IPS) – An Argentine government proposal to crack down on clients benefiting from the trafficking of persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation has unleashed a heated debate between feminist organisations that support the idea and sex workers who are [...]
AFRICA: FIFA Moves Against Trafficking of Young Footballers
November 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fulgence Zamblé ABIDJAN, Nov 3, 2010 (IPS) – When he was 15, Maurice Koné dreamed of becoming a great footballer. Adored for his technical skill and eye for goal by fans in Koumassi, a neighbourhood in the south of Abidjan, he dreamed of living the life of [...]
Mexico’s New War: Sex Trafficking
October 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally published on the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA website Read the original article on the COHA site. by COHA Research Associate Melissa Graham The “War on Drugs” as viewed in Mexico and the U.S. is changing. No longer are President Felipe Calderón, the police, and Mexican military forces fighting [...]
Greek Society Falling, Falling…
September 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Sep 24, 2010 (IPS) – People walking casually past a sleeping or unconscious person has become a recurrent scene in downtown Athens these days. At Omonia square in the heart of the Greek capital one sees signs of social degeneration and segregation that were [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Five Million Women Have Fallen Prey to Trafficking Networks
September 23, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy PUEBLA, Mexico, Sep 22, 2010 (IPS) – The fight against human trafficking in Latin America is ineffective and has led to the emergence of intra-regional markets for the trade, according to experts and activists meeting this Hjek in this Mexican city. “Responses to the trade [...]
US: Global Horizons Indicted for Human Trafficking
September 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pratap Chatterjee* WASHINGTON, Sep 15, 2010 (IPS) – Mordechai Orian, president of Global Horizons, a Los Angeles- based labour recruiter, has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for "engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labour and document servitude" of approximately 400 Thai citizens who [...]
RIGHTS: Iceland Wakes Up to Trafficking for Sex Work
May 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK, May 1 (IPS) – It took the conviction of five Lithuanian men in March, on charges of bringing a 19-year-old girl into Iceland for sex work, before this country truly woke up to the reality of trafficking. In what became Iceland’s first convictions for trafficking, the [...]
COSTA RICA: (In)human Trafficking
April 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniel Zueras SAN JOSÉ, Apr 15 (IPS) – The rescue in a Costa Rican port of 36 Asians working as slaves in appalling conditions on two fishing boats once again highlighted the need to fight people trafficking in this Central American country. Costa Rica is a transit point as [...]
AUSTRALIA/SRI LANKA: Untangling the Knotty Issue of Human Smuggling
November 13, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, Nov 13 (IPS) – It is a story that spans three islands, across the breadth of the Indian Ocean. That is, of hundreds of boat people sailing the rough seas in unseaworthy vessels, risking life and limb in their desperate attempt at a new lease [...]
