U.S. News & World Report
The president said it was time to call human trafficking by its real name: “modern slavery.”
By Elizabeth Flock
President Obama addresses the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Sept. 25, 2012.
President Barack Obama unveiled major actions to fight human trafficking at home and abroad in a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting Tuesday, a problem the U.S. has long sought to control. Just hours after his Republican challenger Mitt Romney spoke to the same audience, arguing broadly that free trade and aid were the key to a better world, Obama chose to focus his speech on the single issue of trafficking, and what the U.S. can do to stop it. Obama told the assembled audience it was time to turn the focus on fighting trafficking within American borders.
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IOM (International Organization for Migration)
April 10, 2012
Human Trafficking.org
Child victims of human trafficking helped by IOM increased to 2,040 in 2011, up 27 per cent from 1,565 in 2008, according to new IOM data. It shows that the number of adult victims referred to 89 IOM missions in 91 countries during the same period rose 13 per cent to 3,404 from 3,012. Continue reading reports child trafficking and labor trafficking cases are rising →
JOHANNESBURG/HARARE, 12 September 2012 (IRIN) seven million people were in need of food aid. A decade later, the number of people in need has declined to a million, though it could go up by another 600,000 in 2013. Still, two of the country’s biggest donors, the European Union and the US, and their implementing partner, the UN, say Zimbabwe is on its way to recovery and development. The EU has announced that it is scaling down its humanitarian assistance. Continue reading Analysis: Zimbabwe – crisis over? →
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