Jess Richardson – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Los Angeles, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Former sex worker and sex-trafficking survivor Jes Richardson outlines the dynamics of rescue in the plight of those who continue to be trapped in the multi-national crime industry of human-trafficking today. How can a rescuer’s actions and language not belittle those who have […]
WNN Breaking (WNN/UNOHCHR) United Nations, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, WESTERN EUROPE: “Yes Seychelles is an island but not an island out of reach of traffickers and their nefarious activities in today’s globalised world,” the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, warned* on Friday at the end of her first official visit to […]
Cameron Conaway – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: The story of Shandra Woworuntu is, as she often says, “Probably not the form of human trafficking you imagine.” Shandra attained a college degree in her native Indonesia and was employed as a financial analyst at a major international bank. But in 1998, due […]
Elaine Hou – Focus Taiwan – Friday, 13 December 2013 (originally published 09 Dec) Taipei, Dec. 9 (CNA) Korean-born American artist Chang-Jin Lee has created a “comfort station” in Taipei, part of an exhibition meant to draw attention to the issue of sexual slavery perpetrated by Japanese soldiers in World War II. Called “Comfort Women […]
Lauren Hersh for Equality Now – WNN SOAPBOX Making a pivotal decision today, legislators at the State of New York Assembly (U.S.) are voting on an important bill that affects women and girls throughout the State – the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act. Over 100 organizations statewide have come together to plea for the […]
Cameron Conaway – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA, SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA: For many, the white cloth is an image that conjures up aristocracy, elaborate formal dinners where the knives must be to the right of the plate and the spoons to the right of the knives. But in Cambodia, as I learned while at a […]
WNN Breaking (WNN/EN) Manila, PHILIPPINES, ASIA PACIFIC: In the 1980s, the U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines was the largest U.S. military base outside of the U.S. with an estimated 500 million USD generated by the brothels surrounding it. Local traffickers and brothel owners engaged in the business of buying and selling women […]
WNN Breaking (WNN) United Nations, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, EUROPE: Japanese deputy ambassador Takashi Okada took to the floor at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today saying that Japan has already done enough to make amends to ex-Comfort Women who were kidnapped as teens during World War II. Records and witness testimonies show that the […]
Tiffany Hsiung – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Toronto, Ontario, CANADA: It was 4 years ago in Shanghai, China when I first met a survivor of sexual slavery and forced prostitution. Her name was Ms. Ha, a Korean who never returned home after the war. And she didn’t fit any stereotype I could have imagined. At 83 […]
Kelly Matheson – WNN Justice (WNN/WITNESS) Atlanta, GEORGIA, U.S.: Sexual slavery is now happening in all six United Nations Regional Groups as human traffickers target women and girls. Most from poverty, broken homes and abuse. Because of this they are more vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by traffickers. This first hand story by Kelly Matheson […]
