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human trafficking
Kenyan human trafficker jailed for trying to sell albino manFumbuka Ng'wanakilala MSNBC 08/19/2010 | 10 Americans face child-kidnapping charges in HaitiJoel Rubin Los Angeles Times 02/05/2010 |
 A Kenyan man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to sell an albino man to witchdoctors in Tanzania, local media reported Thursday. |  Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - The 10 Americans accused by Haiti of trying to sneak 33 children out of the earthquake-ravaged country were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association Thursday and returned to jail to await trial. |
10 American missionaries held after trying to take children out of HaitiJuan Forero The Washington Post 02/01/2010 | UN: Children in Haiti at Risk of Being TraffickedLisa Schlein VOA News 01/22/2010 |
 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Ten American Baptists who tried to leave Haiti with 33 destitute children were stuck in legal limbo Monday, with Haitian and U.S. officials negotiating over whether the church members should be prosecuted in the United States. |  The United Nations Children's Fund warns children in earthquake stricken Haiti are at risk of being trafficked by unscrupulous adults. UNICEF says it is setting up so-called welcome centers where children, particularly unaccompanied children, can go and be safe. |
Five Arrested in Houston Sex Trafficking Case U.S. Department of Justice 08/25/2009 | Saudi Arabia Announces Increased Penalties for Human Traffickers Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Information Office 07/14/2009 |
 Four men and one woman have been arrested on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking of children, as well as forcing and coercing adults to engage in commercial sex acts, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Tim Johnson, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Special Agent-in-Charge Richard C. Powers of the FBI's Houston Field Office, and Houston Chief of Police Harold Hurtt announced today [Aug 25]. |  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Council of Ministers ratified a law on July 13 that adopted a tougher stance on human trafficking. The new law will ban all forms of human trafficking and put in place more severe consequences, including a sentence of up to 15 years and/or a fine of up to $267,000. |
Little Rock, Arkansas, Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Sex Trafficking and Related Charges U.S. Department of Justice 07/10/2009 | |
 Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Jane W. Duke, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Thomas J. Browne, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, announced today that Everett Cooney waived indictment and pleaded guilty in court in Little Rock, Ark., to a federal charge of sex trafficking an underage female. Chief U.S. District Judge J. Leon Holmes accepted Cooney's guilty plea. |  The Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in the District of Hawaii has indicted Rodney D. King, 43, and Sharon-Mae Nishimura, 30, both of Honolulu, on multiple counts of federal sex trafficking of adult women and minor female victims. |
Recession boosts global human trafficking, report saysElise Labott CNN 06/17/2009 | 6 charged in first King County case using human-trafficking lawSharon Pian Chan The Seattle Times 03/26/2009 |
 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The global financial crisis has increased the worldwide trade in trafficked persons, says a State Department report released Tuesday. |  Six alleged members of a West Seattle street gang have been charged in connection with the forced prostitution of women and juveniles. One of them is charged under a 6-year-old law that specifically targets human trafficking. |
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