The Minister of Labour and the Mayor of La Plata are in charge of inspections carried out on Monday in the rural area of the provincial capital. They perform a flyover by helicopter to detect the situation in places of difficult access by land. The flights run through all rural areas of La Plata and its surroundings, where there are fruit and vegetable stores that are difficult to inspect for ground movement.The inspection is to establish the existence of slave labor in rural holdings. The Minister stressed that these overflights allow “access to areas by land was very difficult, so now we r more likely to detect irregularities and act accordingly.” Read Article
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Staff of the border Beta Group started an information campaign among migrants to avoid crossing the desert in Yuma, Arizona, to the low temperatures. The Beta Group, in a statement, said its entirety go to the places where they meet our fellow citizens to alert them to the risk of hypothermia. ” It warns migrants […]
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The Attorney General’s Chiapas state police and rescued in the town of Teopisca in the highlands of Chiapas to 13 women of various nationalities, victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.Of the women who were rescued, five are from Guatemala, three in Honduras, three Mexicans, one of El Salvador and another of Nicaragua. In the […]
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The House of Representatives asked the three levels of governments to combat comprehensively the crime of trafficking, because in Mexico operate at least 47 networks dedicated to this crime, according to data from the National Network of Shelters. Según cifras de la red, al año hay 800 mil adultos y 20 mil menores víctimas de […]
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Argentina’s dictatorship (1976-1983) had an accessory in their plan to rob the children of opponents and give them up for adoption related families: the United States. Elliot Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State in 1982 with the Reagan Administration, said Thursday before the court that his country Argentina “was aware that children were stolen from their […]
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An alleged baby-trafficking ring in Mexico, which sought to sell babies to 11 Irish couples, has been in operation for more than 20 years, authorities have claimed. Blanca Barron, of Jalisco state attorney general’s office, told AFP that the operation may have been in existence for over two decades and sent children to Italy as […]
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Seven out of ten women are raped But if something really irritates you is to talk about migrant women, the most vulnerable, the most unprotected: “It’s rare that is saved from being raped,” says circumspect. I ask what data you have. I look and reflect. That it is difficult to get reliable statistics because women […]
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A couple was arrested by police in Ciudad Juarez on the border between Mexico and the United States, forcibly prostituting four children under 15 years old, said Friday the local government. The detainees, a 31 year old man and a woman of 28, “were accused of forcibly retaining several underage girls, to whom they forced […]
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U.S. authorities on Tuesday acquired a new unmanned aircraft for tasks of high-tech surveillance overflights and the Arizona border, looking for drug traffickers and illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico.The Predator drone-B is located in the Security Operations Center Air National Sierra Vista, a few miles north of the border with Mexico to southeastern Arizona, the […]
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It is the municipality of Valle Nacional which has so far registered more cases of child sexual abuse, taking into account those that have been reported and also those who remain anonymous, as reported by the President Regional Commission on Human Rights “Mahatma Gandhi”, Graciela Sanchez Zavaleta. He noted that Valle Nacional was a municipality […]
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More than 5,400 migrants were rescued in Mexico in 2011 A total of 5.423 migrants in distress were rescued by members of a group of special protection in Mexico Migration Institute (INM) between January and November this year, said the institution. Read Article
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A boy of 12 years and two children under 15 and 17 were rescued this morning on a sweatshop where they made cartridge with children and football grounds in operating conditions, in a house in La Plata. There are two adults in custody, a man and a woman, presumably the owners of the place, judicial […]
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A 32 year old man accused of exploiting workers Bolivian nationals in a clandestine workshop in Villa Madero, was arrested by police, who rescued 17 people, police in Buenos Aires. The man, shop owner, identified as Alfredo Canaviri Mamani, Bolivian nationality, was arrested by the Department of Investigation (DDI) of La Matanza, which rescued 17 […]
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Colombians recognized 207 (between 2005 and 2010) have been victims of trafficking. Human trafficking is defined by scholars as the twenty-first century slavery and the figure of a study on the magnitude of this crime in the country, conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Universidad de los Andes, released yesterday in […]
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A woman took her niece 8 months White neighborhood, west of Maracaibo. The girl was rescued by the Cicpc, on the island of San Carlos.: We investigate this network of child trafficking, said Commissioner Robinson Castillo, head of Cicpc-Zulia. With Aunt arrested the husband and suegraTras remain kidnapped by more than 10 hours by his […]
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In denouncing the existence of criminal gangs to steal your babies in public and private hospitals, the Chamber of Deputies, will try to become law, the installation of surveillance cameras in operating rooms and corridors of the hospitals, as well as placing electronic bracelets the little ones. In the analysis prepared by the advisory bodies […]
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NASA LAUNCH. The Argentine satellite SAC D, placed in orbit THIS YEAR. ITS IMAGES ALSO BE USED IN THE AREA OF SECURITY. Satellites used against drug traffickers and trafficking Enlarge If not enough is done from earth will have to try it from space. That seems to be the spirit of the agreement signed by […]
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Human trafficking, also known as trafficking and exploitation of human beings, was hardly considered a crime when he entered the penal code in 2007.In July came into effect a new law that makes the research, who are responsible for the victim and the creation of special units, among other legal elements.Last spring, the City of […]
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Formed a band dedicated to newborns buy Bolivian and Peruvian women without resources to deliver adoption in urban centers in the country. They used as a photo album catalog. The investigation is being presided by Judge Norberto Oyarbide. A baby-smuggling ring was broken in the last hours by La Federal Police, through multiple raids in […]
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Removals of communities, books that will change the daily lives of thousands of residents, unnecessary expenditures, investments without public consultation, building and renovating stadiums exorbitant, social cleansing. There are many complaints already formulated by grassroots organizations at the approach of the World Cup to be held in 12 cities in Brazil in 2014. In addition […]
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Colombia’s judicial police arrested 16 suspected members of a prostitution of women who acted in several departments, and a Venezuelan border town, officials said Tuesday the operation. A woman prostitute from 2009 to his daughter, now 14, is in the group arrested in the raid, which was conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation Police […]
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The National Migration Institute should pay attention to Mexico’s southern border, said the president of the Human Rights Commission of the State of Tamaulipas (Codhet), Joseph Bruno Cruz River. “Everybody sees the hundreds of kids who come from Central on the train and the train to where people want to stand how it is possible […]
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Chilean analyst, Giovani Cuadra, commented recently in presentations to officials in El Salvador regarding several social issues according to laprensagrafica.com. She explained that inhumane treatment of people as a result of migration and other factors including trafficking is yet to be considered a significant issue in El Salvador and other countries in Latin America. The […]
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Eluniversal.com.mx reported that activists warned that over the last three years there has been an increase in the number of Indigenous girls trafficked for the sex industry. They indicated that many of these girls are vulnerable because they are not noticed, monolingual and have been taught to be docile. Read Article
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The defendant would have used for these acts alleged aid agency the woman in the city of La Paz. After research conducted since 2009, Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC) stopped the day before the Valencia Janeth Oropeza lawyer who would be responsible for a company where print media offered by families or groups of […]
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Luz Lopez Morales was sentenced for the crimes of trafficking, conspiracy to commit aggravated and simple money laundering charges after accepting the prosecution charged him, as co-author. The Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Pereira was sentenced to nine years and 15 days in prison and a fine of 763 minimum monthly wages in […]
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In the last four years and nine months nearly 537 women have disappeared between 8 and 30 years of age in the State of Mexico, according to nongovernmental organizations and relatives of them members of organized crime deprive them of their liberty for sexual exploitation or for use in selling drugs. “‘The Zetas’ are taking […]
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80 percent of sexually exploited women in Argentina are from Paraguay, according to a report released during the conference against Trafficking in Persons, held at the Embassy of Paraguay in Buenos Aires. The statistic was provided by Josephine Keim, coordinator for preventing and combating trafficking, the Foreign Ministry of Paraguay, based on a study presented […]
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Mexico ranks second in Latin American, after Brazil, as the country with the largest number of children sexually exploited and second in the world, after Thailand, in regards to most victims sent to the United States, El Occidental reports. According to a report by the Centre Against Trafficking, the worsening of poverty, unemployment, health, education, […]
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You have only two: you either join them or you die, with the threat of death can not be sure that your children will be safe” was the testimony of Baldomero, a Guatemalan native who left home with the Mexico and the idea of crossing into the United States to earn dollars to rescue from […]
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According to AFP, tTwo Brazilians were accused of international trafficking, after being discovered while trying to bring Venezuela adolescents for sexual exploitation, according to the Office of the State of Rondonia (north) on Monday. The suspects, one of them the run-Venezuela tried to take three teenagers and a woman for the purpose of sexual exploitation, […]
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The Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Thomas Lothar Weiss, said that one of the most wanted criminal in the country is the trafficking of people, so that in Mexico, 20 000 people annually are victims of the crime of trafficking. He explained that globally do not have an exact number […]
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The Governor of Chiriqui and the security sectors of the province ordered the closure of hundreds of illegal steps on the border of Panama with Costa Rica, to curb smuggling, trafficking in arms and persons, to give more security to the area, confirmed the governor of the province, Aixa Santamaría. Read Article
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PHILADELPHIA “Band of brothers,” the U.S. Department of Justice calls them. These brothers number just five, hail from Ukraine, and stand charged with one of the most insidious crimes in the illegal immigrant underground: human trafficking. Omelyan Botsvynyuk, 52, and Stepan Botsvynyuk, 36, are set to go on trial Tuesday in U.S. District Court in […]
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The Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents identified six children as victims of a pedophile of 22 who was arrested yesterday in an educational unit of the district’s Tusequis. The man was trying to be lured to two girls for child pornography. Read Article
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At least 24 gangs trafficking in people, including 47 that operate in the country are headed by tlaxcaltecas because the state is where most families are conceived or criminal groups. Rosa Maria Salazar, director of the National Network of Shelters in the country, reported that it has the data on how many bands are operated […]
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The Attorney General of the State of Chiapas has rescued 108 victims in the form of sexual and labor exploitation from the implementation of the Law to Combat, Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons in 2009. In addition, 38 have initiated criminal proceedings are in preliminary stage and there have been five convictions in the […]
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At least 556 people are missing in the country so far this year, according to official figures cited by the National Police Peruvian Net against Child Pornography (RCPI-Peru). Senmache Dimitri, president of the entity, said that between January and August 2011 have been reported 810 complaints of disappearances in the country’s police stations and more […]
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New statistics relating to human sex trafficking in Tlaxcala, Mexico were revealed this week at a conference in Puebla called, “Citizen’s Forum for the Analysis and Enrichment of the State Strategy for Prevention, Combating and Punishment of Trafficking and Victim Protection,” reports impress.milenio.com. According to the report, there have been 54 preliminary investigations of trafficking […]
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National Gendarmerie 26 foreign women rescued three nightclubs and its dependencies. The raids were simultaneously this weekend in La Plata and Florencio Varela.By order of the Functional Unit of Instruction No. 1 Berazategui, the staff of “Operation Sentinel” South Zone carried out raids on five properties in the locality of La Plata and Florencio Varela. […]
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District attorney, Teresa Martínez, of Buenos Aires, is working today with authorities from Paraguay to repatriate 23 women that were rescued from a trafficking network outside of Buenos Aires over the weekend, according to abc.com.py. The victims from Peru and Paraguay, ranging from 30 to younger than 18-years-old, arrived in Argentina hoping to find honest […]
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The director of Mexico’s Integral Family Development (DIF) institute, Cecilia Landerreche, urged Mexico’s young people to stay in their hometowns with their families during a visit to a migratory station in Chiapas, La Crónica de Hoy reports. She also said that adolescents should receive education about the risks of human trafficking and sexual exploitation that […]
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The National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reinec) in Peru , are under investigation for alleged involvement in Chinese trafficking by illegally issuing identity cards reported El Comercio.pe. At least 15 illegal Chinese immigrants were issued authentic ID cards in the first half of the year, although they presented false birth certificates. Employees are […]
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Peru21.pe reports that Lima has become a new haven for networks of human trafficking. Police say in the last couple of weeks they have raided about 71 nightclubs where women, including minors, have been sexually exploited. Police add the raids were in the Cercado area of Lima. Officials of the Official Registry System of Human […]
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According to ElComercio.pe Peruvian National Police raided a club in Lima on Saturday July 9th, finding 62 women being sexually exploited as prostitutes after being lured to Peru via the Internet. Police report the majority of women were from Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, while a group of them were from the Peruvian jungle. The […]
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According to BolPress.com the defender for the Ombudsman Rolando Villena says at least 1,299 Bolivian minors were reported missing between 2008 and 2010, detailed in the report by the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC). The Network of Attention to Human Trade and Trafficking (RATT) of Person of MERCOSUR and other government and private institutions […]
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The Mexican Federal Police conducted Operation Alba on July 22, resulting in the capture of 1030 people presumed to be involved in human trafficking, HispanTV reports. According to a report by the Department of Public Safety, the nine-hour operation resulted in the rescue of 20 female minors after searching several establishments in the center of […]
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At least 12 migrants, including two women, who were kidnapped two months ago in Mexico have been rescued by police, officials said. The migrants – eight Central Americans, three Brazilians and an Iranian – were found at a house in Reynosa city across the border from McAllen, Texas, the Public Safety Secretariat said. Read Article
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According to ElComercio.com human trafficking rings in Ecuador have links to the Russian mafia, which is confirmed by an undercover agent of the Ecuadorian Police. Officials add the Chinese mafia is also involved. A court-case is underway involving the company, Single Register of Taxpayers (RUC) that in 2009 offered a Russian citizen false identification papers […]
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“Los Zetas”, a Mexican criminal group, allied with the Salvadorian coyote Jesus Ovidio Guardado to recruit women for prostitution informed El Mundo.com.sv. The coyote tricked the victims by promising safe passage to the United States when the actual plan was to sell the women to Enrique Jaramillo Aguilar, leader of one of the Zeta cells […]
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Federal police intercepted 104 undocumented Guatemalan immigrants in the central state of Queretaro, Mexico’s Public Safety Secretariat, or SSP, said Friday. The migrants were detected during a routine inspection of a northbound bus and 13 people accompanying the Guatemalans were arrested as suspected migrant traffickers, the SSP said in a statement. Read Article
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Indians have arrived in droves even as the overall number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. has dropped dramatically, in large part because of the sluggish American economy. And with fewer Mexicans and Central Americans crossing the border, smugglers are eager for more “high-value cargo” like Indians, some of whom are willing to pay more […]
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Criminal organizations in Mexico are using fake Red Cross ambulances and trucks for unlawful purposes, primarily for human trafficking, Univision reports. Last week, the Federal Police detained a trailer in Oaxaca with Red Cross symbols on it that was carrying at least 100 undocumented immigrants, mostly from Central America. This type of disguise is nothing […]
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In the wake of the ban of prostitution advertising, Argentine politicians like mayoral candidate in Gualeguaychú, Osvaldo Chesini, are calling for stronger action against sex trafficking, according to analisisdigital.com.ar. Chesini says locations that promote sex trafficking, especially whiskey bars, need to be closed down and that clear, immediate policies against the crime are the only […]
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Put into effect today, the federal government of Argentina has banned public advertising of prostitution, according to infobae.com. The command was published this morning in the Official Gazette. In an announcement at the Casa Rosada last night, President Kirchner said the new legislation is part of Argentina’s effort to combat sex trafficking. The law also […]
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An alley in the center of Mexico City was the successful center of a network of human trafficking and sexual slavery, CNN Mexico reports. An operation conducted on May 21, 2011 saw the arrest of Manuel and Armando Rodríguez Mejía, brothers who have overseen a successful prostitution and human trafficking ring for over 30 years, […]
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The Standing Committee of Congress in Mexico has approved constitutional reform that will make human trafficking a felony nationwide, El Informador reports. More than 20 state congresses approved the measure before it was taken before the Standing Committee, which makes decisions while Congress is in recess. The measure is being hailed as an “important step” […]
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A classified U.S. diplomatic document written in June 2005 and released today by Wikileaks states that Brazilian diplomats are distrustful of Paraguay’s commitment to the fight against trafficking along their border, according to abc.com.py. Brazil is extremely devoted to securing their borders with Paraguay and the Triple Frontier between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil against drug, […]
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A special report from cuatro.com television in Spain invertigats the business of trafficking women for sex from Paraguay to Europe, per abc.com.py. The interviewers talk with prosecutors, members of the business who have been arrested, reveal details of the business and visit Alto Paraná, Paraguay, one of the most dangerous places in the world. The […]
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The jar of Severed Hands Spanish Deportation of Apache Perisoners of War 1770-1810 – Recorded Interview with author Mark Santiago (Recording Time – 01:08:26) The Jar of Severed Hands: The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810 Explores colonial Spanish-Apache relations in the Southwest borderlands More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first […]
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According to Andina.com.pe more than 3,700 Peruvian businesses were inspected nationwide by a joint operation between two government agencies. The operation was to verify that the business did not violate Peruvian laws of human trafficking. Adolfo Alarcon, a director at the Ministry of Labor says that more that two million adolescents between 6 and 17 […]
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The Honduran Minister of External Affairs confirmed the removal of the Honduran Consul Patricia Villamil in Chiapas, Mexico, due to concerns for Villamil’s personal safety after she received death threats by the terrorist group Los Zetas. According to El Heraldo newspaper, sources have revealed that the Mexican government is prepared to designate the consul as […]
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According to ElComercio.com at 7:00 in the morning on Friday June 17th police arrested a foreigner, Dameus B. who was trying to enter Ecuador at Quito’s Mariscal Sucre airport with 32 people. Dameus was dressed in religious clothes, as was the rest of the group. Police report that Dameus was already under investigation in Ecuador […]
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According to ElUniverso.com Carlos Mauricio Marin Chacon, 24 died while trying to enter the United States as illegally this past 29th of April. He is from the La Union sector, in the province of Azuay. For 40 days the family of Carlos did not know his whereabouts. On the 9th of June a person informed […]
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A government committee met in Buenos Aires yesterday to present the Provincial Commission for the Prevention and Eradication of Human Trafficking, according to lavozdetandil.com. The main objective of the new Commission is that Buenos Aires government will make it their priority to persecute networks in the province that traffic and sexually exploit men, women and […]
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Different entities of Buenos Aires legislature held a debate at the beginning of the weekend that focused on the advertising of prostitution on the city streets by handing out small pamphlets depicting naked and half-naked prostitutes and how to contact them. It is difficult to make it more than a block or two in downtown […]
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In response to growing problems of sexual violence and human trafficking, El Economista reports that the Congress of the state of Querétaro approved reforms to the Penal Code to enforce a sentence of seven to 38 years in prison for persons convicted of human trafficking or sexual misconduct. Children and women in the poorest conditions […]
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Director of the Department of Human Trafficking, Daniela Acosta, calls for a change in the Argentine judicial system after two men from Entre Ríos were released today and acquitted of charges of sexual exploitation of minors and running a brothel. The Federal Court absolved the charges even after one of their young victims testified against […]
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Police led an operation today in Spain that broke up a human and drug trafficking network in Málaga and Fuengirola that was forcing illegal immigrants from Paraguay to become prostitutes to pay off their debt to the company for flying them to Spain. According to abc.com.py, the network was run by a Spanish man and […]
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Local police of Comodoro Rivadavia are investigating a possible case of enslavement and sexual abuse involving a 12-year-old Bolivian girl, according to la-razon.com. The girl was brought to the country by a couple who promised her family she would begin studying at a local school. Police discovered the girl wasn’t in school and was being […]
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Operations in Santa Fe and Córdoba over the weekend led to the rescue of 13 women who had been forced into prostitution at whiskey bars in Isla Verde, Monte Maíz and Santo Tomé. Of the 13 women, 3 were from Paraguay, 4 from the Dominican Republic and the other 6 from Argentina, according to lanacion.com.py. […]
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Argentine Federal Police rescued 2 minors and 30 undocumented Bolivian citizens working at an underground sweatshop today in Parque Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, per eltribuno.com.ar. Three people were arrested during the raids that found the Bolivians living and working in inhumane conditions. The workers, including two women ages 15 and 17, were brought into Argentina under […]
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A report released in May by the U.S. State Department shows that Argentina plays a prominent role in the trafficking of women and children for the sex slave industry, according to infobae.com. The report shows Argentina is still a popular destination for sex tourism, and a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking […]
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Online-911.com reports an operation by the National Police of Argentina along the toll road of Molle Yaco in Tucuman, ended in the rescue of five Chinese citizens and the arrest of an Ecuadorian. The police stopped a bus arriving from Salvador Mazza to perform a passenger check, when they detected the five Chinese, including two […]
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ElComercio.com reports the discovery of new centers of human trafficking in Chile, which include mafia operations in Paraguay, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, occurred Friday April 27th. Chilean Labor Minister, Evelyn Matthei said that the government was looking into the issue and criticizing former Paraguayan senator Francisco Errazuriz for employing illegals on his farms and […]
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A report from the Association of Argentine Prostitutes (Ammar), a member of the Headquarters of Argentine Workers, shows that there are 80 thousand sexual workers in the 5 most important provinces in the country: the Federal Capital, Buenos Aires province, Córdoba, Mendoza and Santa Fe. Sixty-thousand of those come from the poorest areas of the […]
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With more that 2 million women subjected to sexual slavery, it has become the third most profitable illegal business behind drugs and arms trafficking. In Focus has created a documentary centered on the “Triple Frontier.” This tri-border between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil is one of the most prominent for the sex slave industry because of […]
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A humanitarian group said on Tuesday it has given emergency GPS location devices to Mexican human smugglers in a controversial bid to save immigrants’ lives as they break into increasingly remote desert stretches of the U.S. border this summer. Read Article
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The fourteen voting members of the Senate met yesterday and passed a law banning human trafficking in Argentina, according to diarioelargentino.com. The “Trafficking Act” was pushed through by the CTA and Red Alerta who also proposed the creation of a program for the Prevention, Assistance and Protection of Human Trafficking. The new law requires the […]
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The Argentine branch of a worldwide pedophile network was demobilized last week after a series of 17 searches in the Federal Capital, Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, Corrientes, Cordoba and Santa Fe that uncovered huge numbers of pornographic material featuring children. According to lacapital.com.ar, the case began in mid 2010 after the Justice of Germany uncovered […]
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Paraguayan Virgin Sold for 400 Euros The story of the young girl sold to a Spanish man and those of other sex slaves from Paraguay are retold in a report, “Sex Slaves in Spain: Trafficking of Paraguayan women and girls” published in Madrid by Apramp (Asociación para la Prevención, Reinserción y Atención a la Mujer […]
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Police say public transport, social networking sites being used to target victims. Sex offenders have been using public transport, social networking sites, and job advertisements to target victims, the police have reported. According to Deputy Superintendent Gloria Davis-Simpson, head of the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA), reports have shown […]
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A state of emergency has been declared, travel advisories have been issued and regional beach volleyball championships have been postponed since the massacre in La Libertad, Petén over the weekend. We have been following the story because of the close proximity of Petén to western Belize and possible risks to locals travelling across the border […]
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Mexican authorities recently stopped two tractor trailers containing a total of 513 illegal aliens. They were caught at a checkpoint, using X-ray equipment, in the county’s southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. They are, to some degree, lucky to have been caught before entering Mexico. Read Article
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Smuggling corridor for Indians attempting to enter the US illegally, according to a Fox News Latino report published earlier this week. In the past three years, the number of Indians legally entering Guatemala through immigration checkpoints has surged dramatically. In 2008, only 304 Indians entered the country legally. By 2010, that number surged to 4,966—out […]
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X-ray machines at checkpoints in southern Mexico are capturing the ghostly outlines of a clandestine business worth billions a year, people packed tighter than cattle and transported like consumer goods in tractor trailers to the United States. Read Article
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A couple and a custodian who held seven women abducted for sexual exploitation in a room close to Mar del Plata, were processed with custody by federal courts of Mar del Plata, DYN reported. Judge Rodolfo Pradas considered that the accused abused “vulnerability” of the victims and exploited “economically the prostitution that they performed.” All […]
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With regard to sex tourism figures are estimates, because as a little crime and often poorly recorded (cases of exploitation in prostitution or sexual abuse passed as corruption of minors and trafficking cases may take as unlawful deprivation of liberty) and Whereas most countries have no national databases, it is believed that these figures actually […]
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Mexico’s INM immigration agency announced Thursday the dismissal of all its personnel across seven states after undocumented Central American migrants accused migration officials of being in cahoots with organized crime. The purge is being carried out in the states of Mexico, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, the main corridors for […]
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Bolivia is one of five South American countries with more cases of trafficking and smuggling, according to a study by the Organization of American States (OAS). Esta actividad delictiva creció en un 92,2% en el país en los últimos 10 años. This criminal activity grew by 92.2% in the country over the past 10 years. […]
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A total of 157 victims of criminal groups engaged in trafficking in patterns of sexual and labor exploitation have been rescued between January and April this year by members of the Division against Trafficking (Divintrap) National Police of Peru (PNP). Read Article
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Mexican federal police rescued 51 migrant hostages who were being held in northeastern Mexico, the country’s public security ministry said Tuesday.The hostages were found Monday inside a house in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. Read Article
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A network of human traffickers was broken up by the national government. Six people who headed (five Pakistanis and one Ethiopian) were deported because they were wanted by the Interpol, national media reported, the Agency detailing the Andes. Read Article
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After a year of research and monitoring, staff of the Administrative Department of Security, DAS, captured 15 people who were involved in smuggling of migrants in the cities of Ipiales, Pasto, Cali, Bogota, Medellin and San Andres. Among those captured in this operation, is a former DAS official who was assigned to the Group Migration […]
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The agent of the Federal Public Ministry opened a preliminary investigation against Vladimir Gálvez AP/PGR/SON/STA-I/132/2011 Robledo, Carmelo Díaz and Carlos Gómez Corrales Cortez for his alleged role in committing the crime of violation of General Population Act, after being arrested with 25 Mexican Sonoyta. In response to a citizen’s complaint. Read Article
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Mexico – An increase in convictions for trafficking, 27 to 58 years in prison on anyone who commits this crime, was the result of reforms at the federal Act approved by the House of Representatives, and will be applied in this state that already has its own rules for trafficking in persons, as announced on […]
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Corruption is widespread “in the ranks of the National Police of Ecuador and who was their commander, Jaime Aquilino Hurtado, used his power as the ultimate authority to extort body, accumulating money and property, facilitate the trafficking and obstructing investigations against corrupt colleagues. These are the conclusions drawn by the U.S. Embassy in Quito, citing […]
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The Protection of Rights of the Ministry of Interior and National Police rescued 31 Haitians, alleged victims of crimes of smuggling of migrants, reported the ministry. After several days of investigations, in an operation called “Dawn”, officers went to a house in the north of the capital where they located the citizens “who have entered […]
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Eliminate immigration visas in Chiapas, asks J. Sabines, the governor of Chiapas. The governor of Chiapas, Juan José Sabines Guerrero, yesterday asked the Federation to address comprehensively the issue of migration in the southern border, including visas which is a central issue, with the possibility of elimination in the state, in order to they achieve […]
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