Kamala Budhathoki Sarup with Lys Anzia – WNN Interviews (WNN) Arlington, Virginia, U.S., AMERICAS: Serious crimes today continue throughout Asia as the country of Nepal wrestles with a level of exploitation that brings suffering to innocents that are beyond most people’s comprehension. This is suffering that has hit members of society who live at the […]
![[Europe] The Countertraffickers](https://i2.wp.com/womennewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/slavery-new-yorker.jpg?fit=320%2C320&ssl=1 "Stella Rotaru with her group’s beneficiary")
William Finnegan – The New Yorker – Thursday, 04 September 2014 Stella Rotaru’s cell-phone number is scribbled on the wall of a women’s jail in Dubai. That’s what a former inmate told her, and Rotaru does get a lot of calls from Dubai, including some from jail. But she gets calls from many odd places—as […]
WNN Breaking (WNN/UN-OHCHR) United Nations, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, WESTERN EUROPE: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday expressed profound regret that Japan has failed to pursue a comprehensive, impartial and lasting resolution of the issue of wartime sexual slavery, warning that the human rights of the victims, known as “comfort women”, continue to […]
Jeff Shu for VOA – WNN GlobalARTS (WNN/VOA) Glendale, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Last July, the City of Glendale California, unveiled a statute in its central park of a Korean-American who was a so-called “comfort woman” — one of the women forced to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers during World War II. In so […]
Maria Caspini for Thomson Reuters Foundation – WNN Justice (WNN/TRF) London, UNITED KINGDOM, WESTERN EUROPE: Human trafficking has many faces and forms. There’s the pimp enslaving and exploiting young girls in cities across the United States – where an estimated 100,000 girls are trafficked at present. There are the men who buy young boys in […]
WNN Breaking (WNN) New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: In an incredible crime sting operation coordinated by the U.S. FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation has rescued 16 juveniles and 70 women from sex-traffickers who were hoping to cash-in big during the Super Bowl event at the MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. During the […]
Lys Anzia – WNN Breaking (WNN) Tokyo, JAPAN, EASTERN ASIA: As the Japanese government continues to deny any need for formal investigations of war crimes involving former ‘so-called’ comfort women during the second World War, another survivor of sexual-slavery died on Sunday at the age of 89 in Seoul, South Korea. After working in a […]
Ruth Jacobs – WNN Features (WNN) London, UK, WESTERN EUROPE: When Ruth Jacobs had a chance to sit and interview Ms. Jes Richardson, a former sex worker, sex-trafficking survivor and sex worker rights activist, what Jacobs came away with was a unique unforgettable inside look at an industry where the definition of ‘exploitation’ needs to […]
WNN Justice with Alia Dharssi for TRF (WNN/Thomson Reuters Foundation) London, UNITED KINGDOM, WESTERN EUROPE: The global problem for human trafficking and sex-trafficking has been suffering under the specter of ignorance, ‘head-turning’ and denials in South Asia for decades, outlines photojournalist Hazel Thompson, who’s work has been dedicated to bringing in-depth on-the-ground reporting on the […]
Lauren Hersh for Equality Now – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/EN) New York, New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: International human rights organization, Equality Now, has launched a campaign calling on the United Nationals to listen to survivors and address the root causes of sex trafficking and exploitation. ” The failed experiment to decriminalize or legalize the purchase […]
