Human Trafficking
US sues over 'human trafficking' in farm industry
April 21, 2011A US government agency has launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit in what it calls the largest human trafficking case in the US farming industry. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking damages for 200 Thai workers recruited to work on...
Flight attendants - first line of defense against human trafficking
April 06, 2010By Elizabeth Lee Flight attendants at a large U.S. airline are training other flight attendants to recognize signs of human trafficking on international and domestic flights. The flight attendant leading the program says it's possible to catch traffickers...
219 persons in Moldova punished in 2009 for human trafficking
February 10, 2010A survey of the General Prosecution states in 2009, 219 persons were punished in the Republic of Moldova for human trafficking. The survey specifies that of 219 persons, 48 were condemned to different terms of imprisonment, 37 – to conditional punishment...
Bringing Moldova's women into the democratization process
January 13, 2010By Denise Horn Moldova's women remain prime targets for human trafficking and exploitation, and it will take more than just improving Moldova's economy to save them. Both the blight and the profits of human trafficking in Moldova can be felt everywhere...
Moldova makes progress in preventing, combating human trafficking
October 21, 2009Moldova has made outstanding progress in the prevention and combating of the human trafficking, and I am sure that we will manage to defeat this vice as a result of cooperation. US Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Moldova Asif J. Chaudhry...
US provides $1.4M to Moldova to combat corruption, crime
September 23, 2009Moldova has received a new installment of financial assistance worth 1.4 million dollars from the United States to combat corruption, human trafficking and organised crime. U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Asif J. Chaudhry and Parliament Speaker and acting...
NGOs demand correct statistics of human trafficking, immigration
June 26, 2009The non-governmental organizations (NGO) demand from the Government to make up the correct statistics of human trafficking victims and Moldovan migrants. On Thursday, representative of the La Strada center Anna Revencu said at a sitting of the National...
Moldova: OSCE Mission seminar on human trafficking
May 29, 2009The OSCE Mission to Moldova, jointly with the OSCE Secretariat's Strategic Police Matters Unit, concluded a three-day seminar today on identifying, assisting and protecting human trafficking victims. Participants, including judges and prosecutors from...
U.S. will provide $1.5m to Moldova to combat human trafficking and corruption
May 23, 2008The U.S. Government will offer $1.5 million to Moldova to assist the law enforcement bodies in combating trafficking in human beings and public corruption and to strengthen the law enforcement and security agencies’ capacities for annihilating organized...