In theaters September 28. See trailers on Trade website

When 13-year-old Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge (Cesar Ramos), sets off on a desperate mission to save her.
Trapped by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana’s only friend throughout her ordeal is Veronica (Alicja Bachleda), a young Polish woman captured by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track the girl’s abductors, he meets Ray (Kevin Kline), a Texas cop whose own family loss leads him to become an ally. Read the rest of this entry »

Re-posted from StopTraffickNow website

We are seeking panelists from diverse backgrounds, including activists, legislators, academics, NGO representatives, religious groups, and victim advocates. We are also seeking booth and art display proposals that focus on issues relating to human trafficking from individuals and organizations.

We are particularly interested in panel, paper, and booth proposals on the following issues as they relate to trafficking in persons: labor, gender, sex, children, US foreign policy, militarization, economics, politics/policy, the EU, activism, religious perspectives, prevention/protection/prosecution/best practices. Read the rest of this entry »

The ABA Rule of Law Initiative is seeking a consultant to serve as the lead country assessor for the ABA’s Human Trafficking Assessment Tool (HTAT) report in Mexico. Using the HTAT methodology, the assessor will spend 8 weeks conducting research and interviews in Mexico, and will then draft the country assessment, including both de jure and de facto analysis. The assessor will receive an 11 week contract for all phases of the project plus travel expenses. The Human Trafficking Assessment Tool measures a country’s de jure and de facto compliance with the UN Trafficking Protocol by analyzing national anti-trafficking laws and government efforts to combat trafficking. Read the rest of this entry »

Reposting from STAIR: St Antony’s International Review

Abstracts due August 30, 2007
Papers due December 30, 2007

Click here to download a pdf version of the Call for Papers

Click here to download a pdf version of the Notes for Contributors

In the year of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, the global trade in human beings is back on the policy agenda. This illegal trade is no longer restricted to a singular westward flow across the Atlantic, but now occurs in such diverse regions as South Asia and the Middle East. International crime control, migration agencies and the media show great concern over the upward trend in human trafficking based on the new opportunities created by increasing global mobility. But, despite this growing alarm, there remains insufficient serious scholarship addressing human trafficking. There is no consensus as to the precise meaning of the term, as elements of victimhood and agency remain obscure, whilst economic analysis of human trafficking, and its relationship to the international labour market remains hazy at best. Similarly, despite the existence of research on the international abolitionist movement and drug policies, little comparative analysis exists between forms of trafficking. For these reasons, the St Antony’s International Review (STAIR) invites academics, young researchers, and policy experts to submit abstracts of papers that explore one or more of the following lines of enquiry for the forthcoming issue on ‘The Politics of Human Trafficking.’

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2007 is the special year when Britain is commemorating 200 years from the abolition of the salve trade. Despite the 200 years that have passed since William Wilberforce managed to pass the anti-slave trade law through the British parliament, slavery is still a big part of the social and economical life of people worldwide. The UK is not an exception. A recent study on Modern Slavery in the UK uncovered that:

“Modern slavery exists in the UK in various forms. All exhibit the common elements of the exploitative relationship which have always constituted slavery: severe economic exploitation; the absence of a framework of human rights; and control of one person over another by the prospect or reality of violence. Coercion distinguishes slavery from poor working conditions.”
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“Some UK-based companies, knowingly or not, rely on people working in slavery to produce goods which they sell: complex sub-contracting and supply chains, managed by agents elsewhere, often obscure this involvement.” Read the rest of this entry »