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A former French interior minister says former President Jacques Chirac and other senior figures were aware of secret arms trafficking to Angola in the 1990s.
Fourteen cities are being targeted in a new campaign aimed at alerting people about human trafficking, federal immigration officials have announced.
Britain will take "pre-emptive action" to stop sex traffickers from targeting the 2012 London Games.
A Paris court sentenced a former interior minister to a year in prison Tuesday and fined the son of the late President Francois Mitterrand for links to arms trafficking to Angola in a case that involved corruption at the highest levels.
The story of the 18-year-old Ukrainian mother sold to work in a brothel in Turkey after she answered an ad to work abroad was just the start of it for Ron Hampton.
A father of two from Nepal who thought he was going to America wound up in Iraq, forced to work at a U.S. airbase. A 14-year-old Ugandan girl kidnapped by rebels spent nearly eight years in captivity as a sex slave and human shield. And a young Venezuelan woman lured to New York by the man she loved wound up in a brothel his family was running.
Chinese police have arrested 42 alleged members of a trafficking ring that sold dozens of infants stolen or bought from their rural parents, state media reported Friday.
A new international convention is needed to prevent trafficking in kidneys and other organs and potentially life-saving tissues and cells, according to a joint study by the United Nations and the Council of Europe released Tuesday.
A Moldovan, one of 12 people charged in a massive racketeering scheme, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to one count of forced labor trafficking, and agreed to cooperate with the government.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warns that human trafficking is flourishing in the shadows of the global economic downturn.
The United States has asked Jamaica to extradite a suspected crime boss to face federal drug and weapons-trafficking charges in New York, officials said Monday.
The United States welcomes Malaysia's crackdown on human trafficking, but wants to see "results rather than rhetoric" before it can remove the Southeast Asian country from a blacklist, a senior official said Thursday.
From a nondescript brick building a few blocks from the bright lights of Westport, Kansas City's oldest entertainment district, Giant Labor Solutions lured hundreds of foreigners to the city with promises of good jobs and a chance to live the American dream.
Federal agents busted a drug-trafficking ring that distributed methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico in Washington state and carried unusually powerful weaponry, injecting a dangerous new factor into drug crime in the region.
The Obama administration on Tuesday expanded the U.S. watchlist of countries suspected of not doing enough to combat human trafficking, putting more than four dozen nations on notice that they may face sanctions unless their records improve. The move came as officials said the world financial crisis has left more people at risk for the crime.
A former mortuary worker convicted of carving up and selling cadavers donated to the University of California at Los Angeles' medical school was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday and ordered to pay more than $1.7 million.
The Supreme Court will not look into the case of an illegal gun dealer who was given a longer prison term because the guns were destined for New York City.
Twelve people — eight of them from Uzbekistan — are accused in a federal indictment of luring illegal immigrants to the U.S. to work as "modern-day slaves" in 14 states.
A man was convicted Thursday of carving up cadavers donated to UCLA's medical school and selling the parts to unsuspecting medical research companies in a $1.5 million scheme.
Malaysia's prime minister vowed to investigate a scathing report by U.S. lawmakers saying thousands of Myanmar refugees were handed over to human traffickers with some ending up working in Thai brothels.
A man accused of buying and reselling human body parts donated to a University of California medical school conspired with a school official when they realized the scheme was profitable, prosecutors said during opening statements Wednesday.
Central American nations need urgent international help to confront the increasingly dangerous presence of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, the head of a U.N.-backed commission investigating organized crime in Guatemala said Tuesday.
The former chief of UCLA's cadaver program has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for his role in selling donated body parts.
Chinese authorities have detained 13 members of a gang suspected of kidnapping and selling children, sometimes swooping by on motorcycles and snatching them in broad daylight, a police official said Thursday.
A federal lawsuit filed Monday claims Roman Catholic bishops are wrongly imposing their religious beliefs on victims of human trafficking by prohibiting grant money to be used for emergency contraception, condoms and abortion care.
UK children 'trafficked for sex' Children as young as 10 are being moved around the UK to be sexually exploited at parties organised by paedophiles, a charity says. Barnado's says that thousands of girls and boys are at risk of organised trafficking, and accuses council officials of failing the victims.
Record Marijuana Bust In Nebraska; Activist NabbedSAUNDERS COUNTY, Neb. -- Police officers in Ashland, Neb., seized 150 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Wednesday night on Highway 6.
Cocaine Found Hidden In Salinas Valley LettuceDAYTON, Ohio -- Two men were arrested in Ohio after cocaine was found concealed in a shipment of Salinas Valley lettuce, state troopers said.
Picturing a World Where Women Are Empowered and ValuedWomen in the developing world are the focus of the Aug. 23 edition of The New York Times Magazine.
10m Britons are helping 'pay for child sex trade'More than 10million Britons could be unwittingly helping to pay for the booming child sex trade, a new study has revealed. Almost a quarter of people in the UK could be contributing to the trafficking of youngsters by buying drugs, pirated CDs and DVDs or using prostitutes.
Saudi man married Filipina for her kidney MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Saudi Arabian man married a Filipino woman as a cover for buying her kidney, trying to circumvent the Philippines' strict new rules to fight organ trafficking, officials said today.
U.S. Slams Caracas on Drugs Venezuela is fast becoming a major hub for cocaine trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, according to a report written by the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress.
Drug cartels launch Mexico's 'Tet offensive' | csmonitor.comGunmen shot up police stations across the country in an apparent retaliation for the arrest of a suspected leader of La Familia drug cartel.
Spain holds 'voodoo' traffickersSpanish police have arrested 23 people suspected of trafficking Nigerian women into the country and forcing them into prostitution by using voodoo curses.
2 Hudson women face robbery, oxycodone charges - St. Petersburg TimesTwo women were arrested Tuesday on charges of robbery and trafficking oxycodone after authorities say they assaulted and robbed a woman, and had illegal drugs at their homes.
Federal judge gives a man a harsh sentence to send a message to prescription narcotics traffickers - St. Petersburg TimesA Tampa man drew the harshest sentence Friday in a federal drug case that snared two Pasco County deputies.
Fortifying the border: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visits El Paso - El Paso Times
Have you heard of these? I hadn't until I listened to Joseph M. Arabit's opening remarks and testimony to the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee on March 30th.
Mexican drug cartels thrive in suburban Atlanta - CNN.comMexican drug cartels are extending their US operations and violent methods.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Desperate lives of Calais migrantsIt has become a common sight for the people of Calais - men chasing lorries, pulling open the rear doors, and clambering inside, sometimes hanging precariously off the back, as the lorries swerve to shake off their unwanted cargo.
More S'pore women drug mulesIN JUST four months, a dozen Singapore women have been caught here and elsewhere for making drug runs after they were persuaded to do so by West African men, who seduced them with love, money and offers of travel.
Ex-Guinea leader's son arrestedThe eldest son of the former President of Guinea, Lansana Conte, has been arrested for alleged drugs trafficking. Allegations implicating the Conte family in drugs trafficking have spread since Lansana Conte's death.
Mexico drug gangs threaten cops on radio: You're next b@stard, we're going to Kill you!Mexican drug gangs near the U.S. border are breaking into police radio frequencies to issue chilling death threats to cops which they then carry out, demoralizing security forces in a worsening drug war.
Five men found seminude, bound, gagged, lined up and shot dead in MexicoPolice on Thursday found the bodies of five men who were lined up and shot dead in the backyard of a house near the Mexico-Texas border.
Suspected Mexican drug violence leaves 17 dead in 24 hoursSeventeen people, including a police officer, were killed in a 24-hour period in suspected drug attacks in Mexico, mainly in northern border areas, police and officials said Wednesday.
The Evil Behind the Smiles Western men who visit red-light districts in poor countries often find themselves surrounded by coquettish teenage girls laughingly tugging them toward the brothels. The men assume that the girls are there voluntarily, and in some cases they are right.
Child Maid Trafficking Spreads to USThe trafficking of children for domestic labor in the U.S. is an extension of an illegal but common practice in Africa. Families in remote villages send their daughters to work in cities for extra money and the opportunity to escape a dead-end life.
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