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Aceh warned of human trafficking
February 3 rd, 2005
Jakarta Post - Jakarta, Indonesia
A national movement sponsored by the State Ministry of Women's Empowerment reiterated a call on Tuesday for authorities, relief agencies and community leaders to step up security efforts to prevent women and child trafficking in tsunami-ravaged Aceh. Dewi Hughes, spokeswoman for the movement called the Campaign to Eliminate the Trafficking of Indonesian Women and Children, revealed that during her two-day visit to the province she learned that there had been several cases in which Acehnese children had gone unexplainably missing from refugee camps and hospitals.
Trafficking victims to receive ticket home
February 6 th, 2005
Daily Yomiuri - Tokyo, Japan
The government, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), will start helping victims of human trafficking return to their home countries from April, according to sources. The government's assistance will largely center on helping foreign women who would like to return home but do not have enough money to do so after coming to Japan on entertainment visas and being forced to work in the sex industry. The government and the IOM hope to return 50 such people a year.
Efforts to Stop Human Trafficking in Vietnam Gains Momentum
January 28 th, 2005
New California Media - San Francisco, CA, USA
A recent report on human trafficking by the US State Department, which identified Vietnam as a country where the problem is serious, has mobilized hundreds of local, state and national organizations to work together to raise awareness and eliminate the problem, which some people have equated with modern-day slavery… Among the national, nonprofit organizations that have quickly moved to action is the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, based in Washington, D.C.
