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		<title>Man Accused of Sex Slavery Arrested in Niagara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[35-year-old Todd Barkau was indicted last Wednesday in Missouri, charged in connection with training and trafficking the girl he dubbed &#8220;Mistress Alisha&#8221; to be a dominatrix for 5 years, starting when she was 12..
She&#8217;s the daughter of the woman living with Barkau at the time in suburban Kansas City.
Authorities looking for him sent his picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man pleads guilty to human slavery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOUTHWEST FLORIDA - Jose Navarrete, pled guilty to human slavery, Wednesday. The Mexican citizen was accused of harboring aliens, faking an alien registration receipt, a social security card and re-entering the country after he was deported.
According to a federal complaint, Navarrete made Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants sleep in box trucks and shacks in Immokalee. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businesstravellers.org/archives/man-pleads-guilty-to-human-slavery/</link>
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		<title>Chinese woman pleads guilty to sex trafficking in the US.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chinese woman, Hongmei Madole, 32, has pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking Chinese women to Kansas, USA and exploiting them as prostitutes in three massage parlours.  Although she could face up to 20 years in jail, the preliminary estimates in her plea agreement suggest she could in fact only serve 8 months. To read more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clients warned that paying for sex with trafficked women is rape.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK home office has launched a poster campaign with the stark warning &#8220;Walk in a punter, walk out a rapist.&#8221; The posters will be piloted in men&#8217;s toilets in Westminster and Nottingham. This is latest attempt by the UK government to tackle demand for trafficked women, by raising doubts in the minds of men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnamese human trafficking ring goes on trial: Swedish court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A total of 34 people, mostly from Vietnam, went on trial in southern Sweden on Tuesday accused of trafficking people from Vietnam to Sweden, judicial sources said.
The suspects are accused of &#8220;having set up a human trafficking ring, fraud &#8230; and entering fake marriages,&#8221; Jan Waren, a judge at the Halmstad district court told AFP.
Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom and daughter guilty of slavery charges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Fort Lauderdale federal jury on Tuesday convicted a south Florida mother and daughter on slavery charges for keeping a teenage girl from Haiti in servitude for six years.
After deliberating 51/2 hours, the jury of six men and six women convicted Maude Paulin, 52, a former middle school teacher, and her mother, Evelyn Theodore, 74, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businesstravellers.org/archives/mom-and-daughter-guilty-of-slavery-charges/</link>
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		<title>Dutch police arrested 4 men on forced prostitution charges.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four men between age 20 and 34 have been arrested by the dutch police after two bulgarian women pressed charges for forcing then into prostitution. They were arrested in different locations in Holland. link

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		<link>http://www.businesstravellers.org/archives/dutch-police-arrested-4-men-on-forced-prostitution-charges/</link>
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		<title>First Mayor UN conference on human trafficking in Vienna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 1200 organisations from all over the world are gathered in Vienna to discuss the &#8220;human trafficking&#8221; issue.
The conference will take 3 days. In this time NGO&#8217;s goverments and even victims of trafficking will speak. Stop The Traffik has presented the 1,5 million signatures to the representative of UN-chief Ban Ki Moon. &#8216;It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businesstravellers.org/archives/first-mayor-un-conference-on-human-trafficking-in-vienna/</link>
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		<title>Suspect human trafficking arrested in Curaçao</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man, born in Curaçao, is beinig held on charges of forced prostitution of several women in the
Netherlands. The man will be transferred to the Netherlands as soon as possible.
To read full report klik here
 

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		<link>http://www.businesstravellers.org/archives/suspect-human-trafficking-arrested-in-curacao/</link>
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		<title>UK Opposition calls for more to be done to fight human trafficking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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