A group of 89 illegal immigrants from Central America were seized in eastern Mexico when traveling in the false bottom of a trailer, reported Wednesday the Ministry of Public Security of the state of Veracruz. The police, who arrested the heavy vehicle speeding, illegal immigrants found hiding in the false bottom of the vehicle with “obvious signs of dehydration,” the secretariat said. Read Article
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Uruguayan Committee for the Eradication of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents has received 10 complaints this year about child prostitution, said Tuesday Luis putchar, president of the institution. Read Article
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The Public Ministry (MP) is investigating a clandestine clinic in Santa Barbara, to be trafficking newborns to “export” to Guatemala, where they are used for sale or for drug trafficking. Following a complaint by a mother who reported that three months ago gave birth to a child, and that was not delivered by staff working […]
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Friday police rescued 10 children in Bolivia, obliged to forced labor in the international pass-Villazón La Quiaca, northern Argentina. Young people between 11 and 17 were used to transport illegal goods between southern Bolivia and the nation. The operation, which were also arrested five men and a Bolivian woman, was conducted by the Gendarmerie, Argentina […]
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The Guerrillas’ Youth Armies Claudia Sánchez-Bustamante/DIÁLOGO 16/03/2011 Abuses against Minors and Vulnerable Populations in the Hands of Terrorist Movements Seventeen thousand minors are part of the internal armed conflict in Colombia according to the Colombian non-governmental organization (NGO) “Our Children: Task without End” (“Nuestra Niñez Tarea Sin Fin”). The International Tribunal on Children Affected by […]
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Vide describes how two children were rescued by a special commando unit. One of the children was being transported in a bag.
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Five underaged children were rescued while they were being transported to work in the gold mines of Madre de Dios. Police stopped the truck the children were riding in at Quispicanchi, Cuzco. During questioning the children revealed they were kidnapped by a female at the Plaza De Armas de Urcos(Cusco) who was transporting them to […]
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A young Belizean woman who has only been identified to the international press as “Jamelia,” disappeared from Belize more than ten years ago. She has now resurfaced in the United States as a young woman of 23, and the shocking charge is that she had been sold into bondage to an American woman by one […]
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa alert the community to take preventive measures in relation to virtual kidnapping, also known as fraud or extortion via phone calls, declared by the Special Anti-Kidnapping Unit. He added that this problem started in 2001 Mexico, with massive boost for the use of cell phones and crime evolved into what today is known […]
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The head of a company that provides security for American citizens traveling in Mexico says the powerful drug cartels are branching out into the $40-billion-a-year sex trafficking industry. Read Article
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An appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a French woman imprisoned in Mexico for kidnapping, a case that has ignited passions in both Mexico and France and caused friction between the two governments. Read Article
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On Tuesday, the Ombudsman of Panama and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the “Campaign Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents”, which seeks to put a stop to this crime and promote a culture of zero tolerance for this crime among the Panamanian population. The Ombudsman, Ricardo Vargas, said in his […]
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The people in human trafficking are similar to cockroaches. Once you stamp them out of one area they adjust, adapt, and keep coming back. The same is true with the human traffickers in Peru. There needs to be better education among all levels of the community about promises of jobs ect. to young people and […]
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3.3 million children and adolescents who work in Peru, according to the Child Labour Survey prepared by the INEI and the International Labour Organization (ILO). This first and only specialized survey has served to make reports as “Child Labor in Peru” presented last year by the ILO and reveals that 70% of them (2.3 million) […]
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The Cámara Turismo de Jacó (Jacó tourism chamber) recognizes the problem of sexual exploitation of the Pacific beach town and proposes to create a zone of tolerance. Read Article
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Between Monday and Tuesday evening, 25 children were discovered wandering the streets of a Mexican border city alone. Mexican police have found 25 abandoned children wandering the streets of the city of Nuevo Laredo in northern Mexico, only a short distance from the town of Laredo, Texas. The group includes 8 boys and 17 girls […]
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Mexican prosecutors are offering 8 million pesos ($658,000) for information leading to the capture of two suspects in the massacre of 72 illegal Central and South American migrants. Authorities have already arrested eight people in the mass killings last August at a ranch in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. Read Article
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Colombian refugees across the border find sex is the only way for them to make a living. The oil workers in nearby Ecuador are the customers. Read Article – Video filmed in 2009
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The immigrants were said to be traveling in ‘inhumane conditions’ in a trailer reported as stolen. The group included 177 men, 33 women and nine children. Of these, 169 were from Guatemala, 22 from El Salvador, 18 from Honduras, six from Sri Lanka and four from Nepal. Read Article
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A total of 100,000 illegal Honduran citizens are going through the Mexican national territory to the USA, according to the last data published by the National Forum for Migration (FONAMIH), a non-governmental organization. There is information on a little more than 1,000 and only 340 people are correctly documented, but there is not any information […]
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According to inforegion.pe, human trafficking in Peru continues to be a pernicious issue in society. Here are a few points on the current condition of human trafficking in Peru. 1. Traffickers are locating and using new routes to traffick their human cargo. 2. Previous methods involved moving young rural youth from the country to urban […]
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Each year in Mexico forensic services has an average three thousand unidentified bodies, of which about 30% are migrants, said today in an interview Morris Tidball-Binz, Forensic Area Coordinator of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Read Article
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Federal Police took 55 migrants from Guatemala into custody at Benjamin Hill while being transported in a bus. They were in route to Ensenada. None of the migrants could prove they were legally in Mexico. Read Article
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Panama televesion network (TVN) has reported that FARC have been recruiting minors in Panama. The network provided an interview with a boy minor stating he had been recruited in the Darien province and spent three months with the FARC. In an interview with Panamian television network TVN, the boy said he had been recruited from […]
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A foreign couple have been arrested for illegal trafficking of people in Quito. After agents of the Unit of People Smuggling Intelligence Police investigate possible immigration fraud, it was found that the Mariana Pérez Zavala Mexican and Colombian Carlos Alonso Chiduque are the perpetrators of this crime, police said. The operation called “North Coyote” discovered […]
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Five people have been arrested in the kidnappings of Central American migrants in southern Mexico, federal prosecutors said Monday. Federal police arrested a Nicaraguan man and a Mexican man on suspicion of involvement in the Dec. 16 kidnapping of about 30 migrants from a train in Oaxaca state. Information provided by 12 migrants who escaped […]
A Jamaican businessman and his American stepdaughter who were last year implicated in an alleged human trafficking ring had their bails extended when they appeared before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court last week. The pair will reappear in court on January 27 to plea and for a case management hearing. Read Article
Some 120 rural workers in illegal and slave like conditions were discovered on a ranch outside Buenos Aires as part of a criminal investigation, union sources said. Many of the workers are from Santiago del Estero Argentina.Read Article
About 60,000 Central American undocumented immigrants enter Mexico each year, most of them from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, official sources said on Monday. The undocumented enter Mexican territory mainly by the Soconusco and Coast zone, bordering Guatemala, said Andrea Hernandez, Chiapas’ director for Southern Border Development and Communication for the International Cooperation. Read Article
As many as 100 illegal immigrants were taken hostage during an attack on a train in southern Mexico last week, the director of a Catholic charity said Tuesday, citing witnesses. “From the testimonies given to us, the train was carrying around 300 migrants,” Father Heyman Vasquez, who runs a refuge along the route that took […]
WASHINGTON – Three foreign nationals each were sentenced today(December 06, 2010) to 23 months in prison for their roles in a conspiracy to smuggle aliens for profit and conspiracy to commit visa fraud in an extensive and sophisticated visa fraud scheme through which they fraudulently procured visas from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. The […]