PRINTABLE PAGE Adoption Body Suspects Organ Sale Racket in Andhra Pradesh Originally published by the India Abroad News Service, May 1, 2001 HYDERABAD — A government-run adoption body in Andhra Pradesh has referred a blind orphan girl, rescued from a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Appeals Court Strips Prenatal Benefits for Illegal Immigrants By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press WriterOriginally published by The Associated Press, May 23, 2001 NEW YORK (AP) — Pregnant illegal immigrants can be denied taxpayer-funded prenatal care even though their…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Pair Convicted of Enslaving Housekeeper Md. Couple Brought Teen From Cameroon Illegally By Phuong Ly, Washington Post Staff WriterOriginally published in The Washington Post, December 21, 2001 A Silver Spring couple was found guilty yesterday of enslaving a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE And You Thought U.S. Slavery Ended in 1865 … A federal report surfaces saying that 50,000 women each year are imported into America as slaves. By Michael EskenaziOriginally published in Time Daily April 3, 2000 While America’s top…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Family To Sue Court For Selling Kidneys Originally published in the South China Morning Post, June 30, 2001 A family in eastern China is planning to sue a court for illegally selling their executed relative’s body to organ…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Black Market In Transplant Organs By Brian Kates, Daily News Staff WriterOriginally published in the New York Daily News, August 25, 2002 An international transplant Mafia based in the former Soviet Union is capitalizing on America’s organ-shortage crisis…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Judge: Private Cause of Action Exists for Involuntary Servitude By Mark HamblettOriginally published in the New York Law Journal, August 21, 2002 The 13th Amendment and a federal statute enacted after its passage in 1865 create an implied…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Babies Stolen For Sale On Chinese Black Market By Lynne O’Donnell in BeijingOriginally published in The Times (U.K.), February 1, 2002 At the darkest hour of the night, Wang Yijun, an itinerant Chinese coalminer, stumbled out of bed…
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PRINTABLE PAGE US Breaks Up Human Smuggling Ring By Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent Originally published by The Associated Press, May 4, 2001 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ukrainians trying to enter the United States paid thousands to a smuggling ring…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Russian Women Fight Sex Trafficking By Anna DolgovOriginally published by The Associated Press, May 16, 2001 MOSCOW (AP) — Yulia was sold into slavery by her boyfriend. A 19-year-old from a drab industrial town in eastern Russia, she…