Trade in people is not a new phenomenon, but the modern manifestation of slavery, according to US researchers. However, writing in the Journal of Global Business Advancement, they point out that human trafficking and trade in human organs has intensified with increased globalization. They hope to raise awareness of the issue among the business research community with a view to finding solutions.

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Amsterdam city council ordered escort services to obtain licenses within 6 weeks or shut down. It is one of the latest steps to tighten controls on legal prostitution.

Armenia’s parliament adopted a bill on Thursday aiming at identifying and saving human trafficking victims on airplanes before take off

A study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers of girls and women who were sex-trafficked from Nepal to India and then repatriated has found that 38 percent were HIV positive. The infection rate exceeded 60 percent among girls forced into prostitution prior to age 15 years.

Nearly 40 percent of repatriated Nepalese sex-trafficked girls and women tested were positive for HIV infection, with girls trafficked before age 15 having higher rates of infection, according to a study in the August 1 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.

Police in the Black Sea city of Varna arrested a man suspected of trafficking children in Europe, after receiving footage from an undercover British television news report on baby smuggling, a police spokeswoman said.

United Nations and international aid agencies are calling for a stop to the trafficking of children in Africa. As the world marks the Day of the African Child, the agencies condemn a practice that exploits and enslaves children in Africa and elsewhere.

Malaysia's leader promised to do his best to stop human trafficking after the U.S. noticed the country was not doing enough to resolve the problem. "Certainly human trafficking is a crime, and that has to be stopped. We will do whatever we can" to halt it, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told reporters.

In the Human Trafficking Case in India, BJP MP Babu Bhai Katara and his four associates have been sent to juducial custody till 18th May by a Delhi Court while alleged kingpin Rasheed has named of several politicians involved in the scam.

The Malaysian Cabinet has approved a bill to fight the trafficking of women and children, a move welcomed Monday by an activist group that said it was the country's first law to fight the "huge problem."

The international aid group Save the Children says more of China's women and children are at risk of being sold into forced labor or prostitution. The group says the trend is being fueled by the mass migration from China's countryside to its cities, and by a growing gender imbalance.