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Apr 23, 2010	Ending the Slavery Blame-Game QUOTE: how to parcel out blame to those directly involved in the capture and sale of human beings for immense economic gain. While we are all familiar with the role played by the United States and the European colonial powers like Britain, France, Holland, Portugal and Spain, there is very little discussion of the role Africans themselves played.	New York Times
Oct 27, 2009	Pakistan's Forgotten Plight: Modern-Day Slavery QUOTE: will Clinton be able to press Islamabad's rulers to address a controversy involving rural poverty and modern-day slavery?	Time Magazine
Sep 19, 2009	Some Chinese parents say their babies were stolen for adoption QUOTE: [in China] some parents are beginning to come forward to tell harrowing stories of babies who were taken away by coercion, fraud or kidnapping -- sometimes by government officials who covered their tracks by pretending that the babies had been abandoned.	Los Angeles Times
Sep 01, 2009	Case Shows Limits of Sex Offender Alert Programs QUOTE: the case of Phillip Garrido, the California man accused of kidnapping a young girl and holding her captive for 18 years, is reigniting a debate about the usefulness of the government-managed lists and whether they might create a false sense of public safety.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2009	On Speedboats, Legal Again, Albania’s Illicit Sex Trade Could Flare QUOTE: the Albanian government three years ago barred all Albanian citizens from using speedboats, the favored transportation used by traffickers to get people out of the country. But the ban prompted loud protests from fishermen and people in the tourism industry, and in May it was reversed. Law enforcement and human rights officials are concerned that as a result, human trafficking may explode anew...	New York Times
Jul 12, 2009	Africa's bitter cycle of child slavery QUOTE: For generations, Ghana and other West African nations have served as a hub for child trafficking and slavery. An estimated 200,000 children in West and Central Africa perform unpaid labor.	Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2009	After a Sensational Crime, a Trial Marked by Quiet QUOTE: ...[the] French are essentially unable to follow the courtroom drama [of a high profile murder case] because of a law that bans the public and the media from trials that involve minors.	New York Times
Jan 09, 2009	Government fights slave labor in Brazil QUOTE: A recruiter known as a "gato," or cat, plumbs the slums and other poor areas of the vast country and gets people to agree to jobs in distant places. Once separated from home and family, workers are vulnerable to all sorts of abuses, such as being told they owe money for transportation, food, housing and other services. "This is known as debt bondage, which also fits official definitions of slavery,"...	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 17, 2008	Israelis Uneasy Over Prisoner Release: Critics say the deal, which they see as lopsided, could embolden Hezbollah. QUOTE: "Anyone that kidnaps an Israeli will now know that Israel is willing to pay an extremely high price, totally out of proportion with what the other side will pay"	Christian Science Monitor
Mar 10, 2008	A Desperate Search For Stolen Children: Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking QUOTE: [A Chinese farmer's] year-long search for his son has turned into an odyssey through the ill-defined world of human trafficking, an underground system that has helped fuel China's economic might and flourished in the absence of protections against forced labor.	Washington Post
Feb 28, 2008	Burma's allure places travelers in ethical dilemma: Activists say tourist dollars support the military junta, but many Burmese say they need the income. QUOTE: But for those willing to overlook all this to experience Burma's charm, coming here also presents an ethical dilemma: Do you heed human rights activists' pleas to stay away to keep tourist dollars from a military junta's coffers or listen to some Burmese who say that income is a vital source for the country's impoverished.	Christian Science Monitor
Dec 03, 2007	From Stand in Long Island Slavery Case, a Snapshot of a Hidden U.S. Problem QUOTE: The law is probably best known for its focus on prostitution and child-sex traffickers; yet in the last few years, in a few highly publicized cases like the Sabhnanis’, federal and state task forces set up to deal with sex trafficking have also begun to focus on the exploitation of domestic workers.	New York Times
Nov 08, 2007	Congratulations on the Book Award, and Welcome to the Scrutiny QUOTE: In the essay Ms. Enright tried to work through a cacophony of complicated emotions toward the girl’s parents, including reluctant voyeurism, distaste and pity. But newspapers here and in Britain picked out a sentence in which Ms. Enright said that she “disliked the McCanns earlier than most people” and ignored what she wrote afterward: that she was ashamed of the impulse and, in the end, rejected it.	New York Times
Nov 04, 2007	The Orphans Who Didn’t Need Saving QUOTE: But the scandal involving the French charity, Zoé’s Ark, is tangled in an even more complicated web, a modern one of apparently good intentions gone awry and of the perceived exploitation of the suffering of vulnerable people, and a profound cultural misunderstanding.	New York Times
Oct 20, 2007	Divided Korea Paralyzes Families Torn Apart Long Ago QUOTE: About 500 South Korean soldiers captured during the war are thought to be alive in the North, with 480 civilians, mostly fishermen, who were kidnapped in the years since, according to the South Korean government. It is unclear how many of the estimated 80,000 civilians who were taken to North Korea during the war may still be alive.	New York Times
Oct 13, 2007	Military junta forces villagers to march QUOTE: Nilar Thein -- a key leader in the Myanmar-based group '88 Generation -- said residents of Shwe Pyi Thar village carried pro-regime placards after junta officials on Friday demanded at least one person from each household march in the government's rally. Junta officials also approached local factories and demanded they provide 50 workers.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Sep 24, 2007	Germans Drop Bid for Extraditions In CIA Case: 13 Agency Operatives Charged in Kidnapping QUOTE: German authorities confirmed Sunday that they have dropped their efforts to seek the extradition of 13 CIA operatives charged in the kidnapping of a German citizen in the Balkans four years ago. German Justice Ministry officials said they would not formally press the U.S. government to hand over the agents after U.S. officials made clear in recent weeks that they would not cooperate.	Washington Post
Sep 23, 2007	Human Trafficking Evokes Outrage, Little Evidence: U.S. Estimates Thousands of Victims, But Efforts to Find Them Fall Short QUOTE: Congress passed a law, triggering a little-noticed worldwide war on human trafficking that began at the end of the Clinton administration and is now a top Bush administration priority. As part of the fight, President Bush has blanketed the nation with 42 Justice Department task forces and spent more than $150 million -- all to find and help the estimated hundreds of thousands of victims of forced prostitution or labor in the United States. But the government couldn't find them.	Washington Post
Sep 19, 2007	Did CIA kidnap vacationer? It's a state secret. At issue is whether the White House has the power to keep an alleged victim from seeking redress in US courts. QUOTE: At issue in El-Masri v. US is the government's use of the so-called state-secrets privilege. The judicial doctrine provides that some legal cases must be dismissed if the central evidence in the court battle would require disclosure of national security secrets. The Bush administration is using the same doctrine to block a string of legal challenges to other secret terror-war tactics, including warrantless electronic surveillance in the US.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 03, 2007	Freed Koreans Are Contrite Amid Growing Criticism QUOTE: They face a nation relieved that the volunteers had been freed, but also increasingly angry at their decision to travel to Afghanistan despite government warnings, and at what many here consider overzealous proselytizing by South Korean churches.	New York Times
Jul 13, 2007	How best to win US hostages' release? The case of three captives in Colombia, held since 2003, tests the Bush administration's 'no negotiation' policy. QUOTE: [Gene and Lynn Stansell’s] son is one of three American hostages held by a narco-terrorist group in the Colombian jungle and the Stansells say they believe the US government's refusal to negotiate with the group is the reason that the three have been held for more than four years.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 03, 2007	Class-Action Firms Extend Reach to Global Rights Cases QUOTE: The class-action bar is going global. Until recently, international human rights cases in American courts were brought mainly by public interest lawyers more interested in calling attention to abuses and in establishing universal legal standards than in a potential payday. ....The prominent plaintiffs’ firms, their critics say, are in it for the money.	New York Times
Feb 21, 2007	New fight, old foe: Slavery. Some 27 million men, women, and children are in unpaid servitude, the UN says – 200,000 of them in the US. QUOTE: While slavery takes different forms today, the impact remains devastating to lives around the globe, according to UN and US government statistics. An estimated 300,000 children have been forced to serve as child soldiers in more than 30 conflicts. Each year, human trafficking for sexual servitude or forced labor moves 800,000 people across international borders, including some 17,500 foreigners trafficked into the United States.	Christian Science Monitor
Feb 01, 2007	Germans Charge 13 CIA Operatives QUOTE: The CIA's clandestine program of abducting suspected terrorists and taking them to secret sites for interrogation unraveled further on Wednesday as German prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 13 agency operatives in the kidnapping of a German citizen in the Balkans in December 2003. The case is the second in which European prosecutors have filed charges against CIA employees involved in counterterrorism operations. Italian prosecutors have charged 25 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force officer with kidnapping a radical cleric on a Milan street in 2003...	Washington Post
Dec 23, 2006	The Slaves in Our Midst QUOTE: The State Department gets fingered because so many of today's human traffickers and slavers are diplomats, flaunting U.S. and local laws, under the protective shield of the department's interpretation of diplomatic immunity....egregious labor exploitation by diplomats in Washington.	Washington Post
Oct 28, 2006	Taking Terror Fight to N. Africa Leads U.S. to Unlikely Alliances QUOTE: quandaries facing the United States as it extends its fight against Islamic terrorism to remote parts of the globe. In its search for allies in an unstable region, the U.S. government reached out to Libya -- then still officially designated a state sponsor of terrorism -- and to other countries it has condemned for abusing human rights.	Washington Post
Sep 05, 2006	The Lost Children of Haiti QUOTE: Today, tens of thousands of Haitian children live lives of modern-day bondage...They frequently end up cruelly overworked, physically or sexually abused, and without access to education.	New York Times
May 10, 2006	Crime Brings Venezuelans Into Streets: Large Protests Over Soaring Homicide Rate Create Political Challenge for Chavez QUOTE: ...gives Venezuela a solid claim to the dubious title of the world's capital of violent crime....Many of the protesters have suggested that Chavez has divided Venezuelan society with his frequent criticism of the country's upper class, rhetoric they say has incited lower classes to violence against the wealthy.	Washington Post
Mar 12, 2006	Stealing Babies for Adoption: With U.S. Couples Eager to Adopt, Some Infants Are Abducted and Sold in China QUOTE: The foreign adoption program has matched Chinese babies with foreign families eager for them, while delivering crucial funding to orphanages in this country. But it has also spawned a tragic irony, transforming once-unwanted Chinese girls into valuable commodities worth stealing.	Washington Post
Feb 25, 2006	Killing in France Seen as 'Wake-Up Call': Anti-Semitism Blamed in Kidnapping, Torture of 23-Year-Old Salesman QUOTE: Many have cited the torture and reports that the gang's suspected leader was later arrested in a Muslim neighborhood in Ivory Coast, in West Africa. In a country that experienced a surge in anti-Semitic attacks, most of them blamed on Muslims, in the first years of the current Palestinian uprising against Israel, top politicians have rallied to publicly condemn the crime.	Washington Post
Dec 15, 2005	In a Shift, Anti-Prostitution Effort Targets Pimps and Johns QUOTE: ...a shift in how the government and the public respond to the sex industry....an unlikely coalition of evangelicals, feminists, liberal activists and conservative human rights advocates are pushing the issue. They are trying to reframe the way people talk about prostitutes, calling them "survivors" and signing off e-mails with the slogan "Abolition!"	Washington Post
Nov 12, 2005	Italy Seeks Extradition Of 22 CIA Operatives QUOTE: Italian prosecutors on Friday formally requested the extradition of 22 U.S. citizens believed to be CIA operatives on charges that they seized an Egyptian Islamic cleric off a Milan street in early 2003 and flew him to Cairo, where he later said he was tortured.	Washington Post
Jun 30, 2005	Milan Snatch: Extraordinary rendition comes back to bite the Bush administration. QUOTE: But since launching its war on terror, the administration of George W. Bush has expanded the practice to "extraordinary rendition," which includes kidnappings of foreign suspects so they can be turned over to authoritarian allies like Egypt for interrogation sessions that likely involve torture.	Slate
Jun 03, 2005	Kidnapped Relatives of Slain Chechen Leader Come Home QUOTE: ...seven relatives of the Russian region's former leader, Aslan Maskhadov, returned to their home village...Human rights groups charged that their kidnapping was part of a pattern of Kremlin-backed Chechen forces targeting the relatives of known separatists.	Washington Post
Oct 19, 2004	'New Stage' of Fear For Chechen Women: Russian Forces Suspected in Abductions QUOTE: ...as Chechen guerrillas increasingly recruit female suicide bombers... Russian forces are sweeping through Chechnya abducting women from their homes as well...	Washington Post
Mar 06, 2003	New Kidnapping Law May Snare Battered Women QUOTE: Children's advocates are praising a new law intended to lower the risk of international parental kidnappings. However, the itemized risk factors for illegal flight are also common among battered women preparing to leave their abusers.	Women's eNews
Feb 20, 2003	Asia's sex trade is 'slavery' QUOTE: A United Nations official has described the trafficking of women and children across Asia as "the largest slave trade in history".	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Jun 15, 2002	State's Blind Eye on Sexual Slavery QUOTE: ...it was the massive brutality of the growing sex trafficking nightmare that moved Congress to pass the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000....With the diplomats at State unwilling to honestly confront foreign countries with the truth, the Office to Combat Trafficking has become the Office to Obscure Trafficking.	Free the Slaves
Jan 31, 2002	Does Germany Condone Kidnapping? QUOTE: ...Germans are kidnapping American children and, with the help of German courts, refusing to allow their American parents ever to see them again.	Washington Post
Jan 13, 2002	Muslim Separatists Terrorize Filipinos With Kidnappings for Money and 'Marriages' QUOTE: ...the Abu Sayyaf movement...has carried out massacres, bombings and beheadings on the islands of Basilan and Jolo. Its members are known for rape and for forced "marriages" with women they take hostage.	New York Times
Oct 24, 2001	Despite Legal Ban, Slavery Persists in Mauritania: Workers Chained By Caste, Economy in Impoverished West African Nation QUOTE: [slavery] was outlawed only in 1980...anti-slavery activists, human rights workers and diplomats said that while the number of slaves held in Mauritania has declined sharply since then, the practice continues.	Washington Post
Oct 05, 2001	'Comfort Women' Suit Against Japan Dismissed QUOTE: A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit filed against Japan by 15 Asian women who said they were kept as sex slaves -- or "comfort women" -- during World War II, ruling that Japan cannot be held responsible for its "egregious conduct" in U.S. courts.	Washington Post
Aug 09, 2001	Japanese State Approves Disputed Textbook QUOTE: A regional school board today approved use of a history textbook that critics say whitewashes Japanese atrocities during World War II...	New York Times
Jul 29, 2001	The Bondage of Poverty That Produces Chocolate QUOTE: Child labor does retain deep roots but it is hard to measure, and the line between slave trading and the bondage of poverty is sometimes unclear...	New York Times
Jul 06, 2001	Court Case Seeks to Define a Catholic Priest's Family QUOTE: While the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco...was held by Islamic radicals for nearly 19 months in Lebanon in the 1980's, his relatives back home in Joliet, Ill., felt the anxieties shared by all the hostages' families.	New York Times
Jan 16, 2001	Battle Over Internet-bought Twins QUOTE: A British couple embroiled in a bitter adoption battle over six-month old twins -- who were born in the United States and sold twice over the Internet -- vowed...to keep the girls.	Wired

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