Australia has launched an advertising campaign to accompany tough new laws on sex tourism.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is "the rape capital of the world", a senior UN official has said.

An inquiry is to begin to discover how many victims of human trafficking there are in Scotland.

Vancouver Olympic Games organizers have received a failing grade for their efforts to curb sex trafficking into the city, a think-tank announced Tuesday.

Global summary update on Human Trafficking.

The UN has begun a large-scale aid distribution in Haiti's capital, aiming to feed two million people nearly three weeks after the deadly earthquake.

As final preparations take place for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling for greater awareness by organizations and governments of the problems caused by prostitution and human trafficking.

Some groups (UNICEF) are now stating that thousands of children in Haiti are being trafficked out of the country. UNICEF has even reported children taken from hospitals.

President urges global community to protect victims, prosecute traffickers

Despite a highly trumpeted New York State law in 2007 that enacted tough penalties for sex or labor trafficking, very few people have been prosecuted since it went into effect, according to state statistics.

China has executed two men convicted of abducting and selling children, state media has reported.

Police in China say they have recovered more than 2,000 children in a six-month campaign against human trafficking.

CHENNAI, INDIA – When IJM and local government officials arrived at a rock quarry on the outskirts of a small village early on an October morning this year, the laborers were already hard at work.

BEING HELD at gunpoint by 30 drunk and angry militia in the middle of the night on a deserted road in one of the most dangerous war zones in the world was not our plan when we started out the day.

The United Nations, Governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today jointly launched The Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, choosing the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to fight a modern scourge that may entrap up to 27 million people at any given time in a market valued at $32 billion.