More than 700,000 women, children and men are trafficked across borders every year into forced labour and sex slavery. Thousands of these women and children are trafficked for travellers to use as prostitutes. You can use this site to find out what is going on and also how to help stop this terrible trade. More »

There are more slaves today than ever before, but do you know how to spot them? Business Travellers against Human Trafficking are offering free training sessions to inform you on how to identify and report suspected incidences of slavery here and around the world.

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Fri 04 Jan 2008

UK Opposition calls for more to be done to fight human trafficking

In the UK, the opposition Conservative party called for the government to do more to fight human trafficking. Despite co-ordinated police efforts against this crime, the actual number of convictions of traffickers under the sexual Offences Act 2003 declined in 2007 to 16 from 27 the year before. The Conservatives called for the UK government to ratify and implement the Council of Europe Convention on trafficking, for which it has no definite time table, to set up a helpline for victims and to allow specialist support programs to help victims under the age of 18.
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Fri 04 Jan 2008

Children go home as China cracks trafficking ring

BEIJING (Reuters) - Nine trafficked children were returned to their parents in central China on Thursday in a rare success story in a nation where population controls have led to rampant child-trafficking, state media reported on Thursday.

Police detained 10 suspects after the abduction of nine children in Henan province early last month.

The gang was led by Ye Zengxi, his son, daughter-in-law, and his brother. The gang used Ye’s 12-year-old nephew to lure the nine boys, aged between two and eight, away from their parents’ view with toys or food, and then whisked them away by motorbike, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Child-trafficking is rampant in China, where population control policies have bolstered a traditional bias for male offspring, seen as the mainstay for elderly parents and heir to the family name, and have resulted in abortions, killings or abandonment of girls.

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