PRINTABLE PAGE U.S. to Crack Down on Human Trafficking, Ashcroft Says By Kevin MurphyOriginally published in The Kansas City Star, March 27, 2001 WASHINGTON — Using a new federal law and two additional prosecutors, the Justice Department will aggressively investigate…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Snakehead Lawyer, Wife Plead Guilty By Robert Gearty, Daily News Staff WriterOriginally published in the New York Daily News, February 12, 2002 A Chinatown lawyer and his pregnant wife pleaded guilty yesterday to helping notorious smugglers known as…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Lawyers Told to Act Against Central America’s Child Sex Trade By Daniel Nelson, OneWorld UKOriginally published by OneWorld.net, November 1, 2001 More than 2,500 lawyers from all over the world have this week been asked to help stop…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Despite Ban, Organs Still Sold in India By Sanjay KumarOriginally published by Reuters Health, March 9, 2001 NEW DELHI (Reuters Health) — Despite 1994 legislation banning the sale of human organs, organ sales still continue, albeit surreptitiously, experts…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Botswanan Domestic Sues UN Diplomat for ‘Involuntary Servitude’ By Chisun Lee, Village Voice WriterOriginally published in the Village Voice, July 25 – 31, 2001 She considered showing up in disguise. But in the end, Keabetswe Letsididi decided she…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Forced Child Labor Turns Deadly in China’s Needy School System Asia: Students were assembling firecrackers when a blast killed at least 42 people. Money allegedly went to education officials. By Ching-Ching Ni, Henry Chu, Times Staff Writers Originally…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Feds: Woman Trafficked Vermont Girls to NYC By Dean SchabnerOriginally broadcast by ABC News, December 14, 2001 A Burlington, Vt., woman accused of luring a dozen girls and young women from Vermont to work as prostitutes in New…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Trouble on the Home Front 24-Hour Domestic Sues Upper East Side Bosses By Chisun Lee, Village Voice WriterOriginally published in The Village Voice, July 11-17, 2001 Imagine getting two dollars an hour for “dusting the furniture and windows,…
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PRINTABLE PAGE I.N.S. Both Jailer and Parent to Children Without Nation By Eric SchmittOriginally published in The New York Times, June 24, 2001 MIAMI, June 18 — For more than 13 months, an 8-year-old Nigerian girl with pigtails and a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Dozens Killed For Body Parts By Mark Franchetti, MoscowOriginally published in The Sunday Times, July 29, 2001 The last time Makhbuba Aripova, a young woman from the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, saw her husband Farkhod he was…