Safe World for Women

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Girls in Cages

Diana Scimone - 'Girls in Cages'

“Do you see those cages in the second-floor windows?” my contact asked me. “Cages? What are they for?” I replied, certain I did not want to know. “They hold little…

Freedom at Midnight - Buying Diana

"He cut me with a knife. He kept me in the dog kennel on New Year's Eve. They forced me in there naked and it was so cold. I don't want to return there. Ever.…

Human Trafficking: Europe

"My parents paid €2,100 for me” - Spain's Stolen Babies

Operation Oculta set up to investigate Spain's stolen baby scandal, has uncovered a ring that bought babies in Melilla and Morocco and sold them to couples on…

Orphan girls sex trafficked in sordid crime racket from Nigeria to France to Sussex in the UK

The girls were granted asylum in the UK and during interviews with UKBA admitted the truth – they had been smuggled out of their homeland, tricked by false…

Bombs at Brothels: Are Spain's Human Traffickers at war?

Questions are being asked if a bomb attack at Spain's largest brothel is the beginning of a vicious turf-war between rival gangs suspected of involvement in…

Man arrested for 'sex for tuition fees' website

UK Detectives investigating a website offering to pay the tuition fees of female students in return for sex have arrested a man on suspicion of inciting…

The women enslaved in a Russian supermarket for 10 years

Two Kazakh women have said they were lured into slavery in Moscow on the promise of a job and held in captivity in a supermarket for 10 years where they were…

UK: Trafficking victims are organ donors and house slaves

The first official assessment of human trafficking in the UK reveals the increasingly diverse reasons people are being smuggled into the country, including…

Ruhama: Highlighting Sex Trafficking & Prostitution in Ireland

Interview with Sarah Benson, CEO of Ruhama, which helps trafficked women to make a fresh start. “Physically these women are debilitated, often malnourished,and…

Slovenia officials accused of trafficking

A scandal has erupted in Slovenia over the authorities’ alleged complacency with the trafficking of hundreds of women from Dominican Republic who get work…

Lover Boys: Sex trafficking in Holland

This is the story of Ibrahim, a courageous Dutch-Moroccan social worker in the Netherlands who is tackling the high incidences of sex-trafficking of young…

IRELAND: Horrors of human trafficking revealed

Police say that there were 57 alleged victims of human trafficking — including 13 children — reported in 2011. 23 were reported to authorities by…

Spain: Women Enslaved by Brothel Tourism Boom

Thirty years ago, virtually all the prostitutes in Spain were Spanish. Now, almost none are. Most of the women are controlled by illegal networks — they are…

RUSSIA: The enslaved and abused migrant women

Not so long ago, it was virtually unheard of for Central Asian women to head to Russia on their own in search of work. Poverty has forced many to travel and…

After 44 years, one of Spain's stolen babies is reunited with her mother

Manuela Polo never believed her seventh child had died at birth as doctors told her. Now she has proof she was right. Her baby had been stolen by a network of…

UK: Girl, 10, kept as 'virtual slave' in cellar

A 10-year-old deaf girl was trafficked into the UK and kept in a cellar as a virtual slave for almost a decade, a court in Manchester has heard.