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More than 27 million people are currently held in slavery all around the world. However, Google announced that they will donate millions of dollars to help battle modern day slavery.
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French politicians are to debate a bill on Tuesday, calling for prostitution to be made illegal. In the wake of high-profile sex scandals, clients could face fines if caught paying for sex.
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It's not a pretty story, children being used as sex slaves. Across the globe though children are being taken from their homes to serve the sexual needs of the highest bidder.
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On Tuesday, Malaysian police uncovered a human trafficking ring consisting of Ugandan women who had been forced into sexual slavery.
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Following an 18 month investigation into a protection racket operating in Northern Greece, police have arrested 28 people suspected of involvement in an extortion ring. Those arrested were ethnic Greeks with links to Georgia and Russia.
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Atlanta -
A Georgia woman and her minister-husband pleaded guilty and face sentencing on charges of bringing a young African woman into the United States and forcing her into slavery..
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Three days ago Nigerian authorities raided a premises in Aba, Nigeria following a report that pregnant girls, aged between 15 and 17 were being held captive and forced to sell their babies for illegal adoption, ritual sacrifice or sex slaves
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Human trafficking is a growing problem in the United States and throughout the world. It is somewhat surprising that San Bernardino County ranks as one of the biggest transit points for human trafficking, domestically and international in the U.S.
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Bangkok -
Late last month, a raid conducted by Thai police freed 15 Vietnamese women (half of them pregnant) from a surrogacy clinic operated by a company called Baby 101.
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Charlotte -
In an effort to increase public awareness and attention to the rise of human trafficking cases in North Carolina, Governor Bev Perdue proclaimed the month of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month throughout the entire state.
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Police in Thailand and Australia arrest six people believed to be part of a human trafficking network, following a year-long operation.
 A new campaign targeting human trafficking is hitting Ontario highways, with the hopes that truckers and truck-stop workers can help report suspicious activity.
 The leader of what has been called the largest proven human smuggling ring in Canadian history has received a nine-year sentence in a Hamilton, Ont., court.
The Nevada brothel owner who became famous as the star of an HBO reality show says he wants to start a new and fully legal brothel in London during the upcoming summer Olympics -- not just because he could make "a couple million pounds," he says, but because legal brothels would stop human trafficking by international criminal gangs. Dennis Hof, the 65-year-old owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch and star of "Cathouse," promoted legal prostitution during a Thursday night debate at the Oxford Union, and told ABC News that while he's in the U.K. he's on a mission to sell London authorities on legal brothels.
How online ads are being used by the sex trafficking industry
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