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The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking
in Persons (US State Department) released its 2006 annual report
on Trafficking in Persons.
US
State Department releases Trafficking in Persons Report. Download
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There
are many social and economic relationships that can be called slavery.
Where do we draw the line? How do we define it?
What are the boundaries and how can we get an accurate accounting
of the problem? Dr. Kevin Bales of Free
The Slaves explores these issues in The Challenge of Measuring
Slavery.
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How
do these forces interact with migration, trade and workers rights
policies? Can we develop and enforce a worldwide standard
for the protection of all workers? The International
Labour Organisation examines underlying factors in Getting at
the Roots.
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What
are the connections between migration and trafficking? How
can governments effectively tackle slavery if they ignore the rights
of migrant workers? Anti-Slavery
International explores these issues in The Migration-Trafficking
Nexus.
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June 9, 2006
The
first person in Australia to be found guilty by a jury of possessing
sex slaves has been jailed for 10 years...
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May 30, 2006
Seven
women were locked inside Melbourne apartments and made to work in
brothels as part of a sex-slave racket linked to a migration agent...
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May 10, 2006 This
man's young wife thought she was coming to Australia for love. But
instead of the new life he promised, Foad Ali Solaiman thrust his
bride into the sordid world of sexual slavery, a court has heard...
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March 16, 2006
Police
are investigating allegations that a Filipino guest worker who complained
about his pay and treatment at Canberra's Pangaea restaurant was
kidnapped in a bid to have him deported...
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February 13, 2006
Imported
Indonesian workers have allegedly been paid as little as $40 a day
to dig ditches in the South Australian desert...
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February 1, 2006 Two
guest workers from the Philippines, standing up for their human
rights, have been locked out of their workplaces while another,
worried about reported threats, has had to take out an AVO against
his former employer...
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January 17, 2006
A group of religious congregations from around Australia who have
prepared a report that calls for a human rights-based, victim-centred
approach to human trafficking...
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August 25, 2005 Operators
of the world's largest uranium mine are importing Filipino trades
people and blocking unions from their heavily-guarded site...
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August 12, 2005 The
network aims to help stop the illegal trade of women and children
who end up working in Australia's sex industry. Jennifer Burn, legal
expert at the University of Technology in Sydney, told Lynn Bell
the government's new visas created to help vicitms are not doing
what they should...
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July 1, 2005
Young
women brought from Asia by the operators of a sex slavery racket
thought they would get jobs as waitresses, the Downing Centre District
Court heard yesterday...
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May 25, 2005
When Australian immigration authorities come across a victim of
human trafficking enslaved in a brothel, exploited in a factory
or trapped as a household maid, what is their response?...
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April 28, 2005
Illegal
immigrants form the backbone of a much-needed workforce for many
industries, writes Amanda Woodard...
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more
March
9, 2005
A Filipina maid owed $43,000
in damages and lost wages by a senior Chilean diplomat whom she
accused of exploiting and abusing her is facing detention and deportation...
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more
January
12, 2005 What
do Ashburton, North Fitzroy and Kew have in common, apart from being
relatively affluent Melbourne suburbs? They are suburbs where foreign
women have been found locked up while paying debt bondage contracts
by providing unpaid sexual acts in Melbourne brothels. Such women
are victims of people trafficking, a crime involving the recruitment,
movement and exploitation of human contraband...
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September 24, 2004
A Thai woman forced to work
in a Strathfield brothel begged her clients to arrange a raid of
the premises to free her, a court has heard...
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June 10, 2004 Tai
Zhu Yu was working 17 hours a day and was owed thousands in meagre
wages when, with a knife and a golf club, he ended the life of his
uninvited drunken relation - a fellow illegal immigrant trapped
in the unseen Sydney world of cheap, exploited labour...
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February 24, 2004 Ten
alleged sex slavery organisers have been charged under a crackdown
on sexual servitude, a federal parliamentary committee was told
today...
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June 2, 2003 There
have been more claims of a sex slave trade in Australia. Again questions
are being raised as to whether Federal Police are seriously investigating
such allegations. Two young women from a former Soviet Republic
have revealed extraordinary details of an international organised
crime network and the depraved conditions they were forced to endure
in an Australian brothel...
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November 25, 2002 When three black grill chefs from Soweto
accepted job offers in Sydney from a white South African immigrant,
they thought they would be paid the weekly award wage for an unqualified
a la carte cook - $441.60...
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November 17, 2002 Police
and immigration authorities in both Australia and South Africa are
investigating the suspected recruitment of black workers for what
some have dubbed a "slave labour ring"...
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August 14, 2002 Aku
Dzameshie (left) is 15 years old. She does not know the age at which
she was brought to the shrine as a Trokosi slave. When freed, Aku
was four months pregnant but has never had medical support with
her pregnancy...
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March 10, 2001 Cheap
freight rates come at the cost of human lives, according to a damning
report on the world's shipping industry released today...
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March 2, 2001 The
Sydney Regent Hotel has been accused of being unscrupulous, after
it was revealed the hotel was not paying Australian award rates
to Indonesian and Hong Kong workers flown in to work at their up-market
hotel...
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February 2, 2001
The case of eight Indian stonemasons
who were brought to Australia and then exploited has outraged the
union movement. The men were employed carving stone on an Indian
temple south of Sydney and were paid a pittance for their craftsmanship.
They received $145 a month and were forced to work a 7-day week.
The plight of the men has highlighted the exploitation of foreign
workers, both legal and illegal, across Australia...
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