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March/April 2006 Newsletter

A Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking

This Newsletter will keep you up-to-date on timely additions to Humantrafficking.org. The Web site is updated weekly to reflect the most current events, publications, NGO and Government information, and best practices of the global anti-trafficking community, focusing on East Asia and the Pacific, and the United States.

How You Can Help to Combat Trafficking

• How to recognize victims of trafficking in your own community.
• US CITIZENS INTERESTED IN HELPING TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN THE US AND ABROAD

Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking

This Newsletter will keep you up-to-date on timely additions to Humantrafficking.org. The Web site is updated weekly to reflect the most current events, publications, NGO and Government information, and best practices of the global anti-trafficking community, focusing on East Asia and the Pacific, and the United States.

How You Can Help to Combat Trafficking

• How to recognize victims of trafficking in your own community.
• US CITIZENS INTERESTED IN HELPING TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN THE US AND ABROAD

RECENT UPDATES

1. UNICEF Supports Initiatives to Tackle Trafficking of Women and Children in Thailand
2. Call for Applications: Project HOPE International Travel and Study Human Trafficking in SE Asia
3. Groups Ask Judge to Toss Out Restrictions on AIDS Funding 
4. HHS Awards Contract to Support Human Trafficking Victims
5. Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking in Latin America
6. CEDAW Committee Considers Cambodia’s Report
7. Child Pornography: Model Legislation & Global Review
8. Cameroon Updates Its Law on Human Trafficking
9. Equal Access Digital Broadcast Initiative Launch
10. HHS Rescue & Restore Training DVD Now Available
11. Request for Information from Social Workers Around the World
12. Request to Complete a Survey for PhD Candidate in Germany
13. Australian Federal Police (AFP) Signs 'Historic' Agreement with Vietnam, Cambodia
14. 6,000 Vietnamese women, children trafficked abroad in 2005
15. IOM Helping to Repatriate Woman Trafficking Victims from Malaysia
16. Training on Garbage Recycling to Improve the Livelihood of Cambodian Beggars
17. US Congressional Hearing on Trafficking in China
18. U.S. Government Anti-Trafficking in Persons Obligated Project Funding (Fiscal Year 2005)
19. Global Commission on International Migration Releases Comprehensive Report
20. Managing Migration in Southeast Asia
21. Difficult Lives of Child Beggars
22. Mekong Youth Net (MYN)
23. Progress on Human Trafficking Legislation in Cambodia
24. Updates on the CHAI HOUR II Hotel Case in Cambodia
25. Chai Hour II Hotel Trial Shows Discrepancy in Trafficking Laws
26. Malaysia Promises to Act Against Human Trafficking
27. Bangkok Conference Targets Human Traffickers
28. Vietnam Court Sentences Human Trafficking Ring
29. Vietnam Border Province Sets Up Human Trafficking Hotlines
30. Rescue Center for Kidnapped Women, Children Set Up in Guangxi, China
31. Migrants Taught How to Avoid Being Cheated and Trafficked in Guangdong, China
32. First Conviction in the Philippines on Human Trafficking Spurs More Initiatives
33. In Southeast Asia, Child Sex Trade Goes on Unabated
34. Japan to Tighten Rules on Foreign Entertainers
35. Millions of Asian Children Living in Stateless Limbo

UPCOMING EVENTS

1. International Conference on Child Labour, Abuse and Neglect (20 June 2006 - 29 June 2006)
2. Fourth Senior Officials Meeting on Human Trafficking in Cambodia (10-12 May 2006)
3. Vietnamese Youths United Against Human Trafficking At The Human Race of Silicon Valley (13 May 2006) 

PAST EVENTS

1. Sexual Trafficking Breaking: The Crisis of Silence (7 April 2006 - 8 April 2006)
2. Becoming Natasha (22 April 2006)
3. So Great a Violence: Human Trafficking in New York City (11 April 2006)

USEFUL INTERNET RESOURCES

1. The Communication Initiative

NEW RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

1. UNODC Trafficking in Persons - Global Report
2. Compilation of Reports from the Conference on "Trafficking of Human Beings and Migration: A Human Rights Approach"
3. The Mekong Challenge Analysis Report of the Baseline Survey for the TICW Project Phase II in Yunnan Province
4. Stolen Smiles: A Summary Report on the Physical and Psychological Health Consequences of Women and Adolescents Trafficked in Europe
5. Combatting Human Trafficking: An Overview of UNHCR Anti-Trafficking Activities in Europe
6. Trafficking Migrant Women and Minors at the Mexican Southern Border. An Exploration Into an Unknown Reality (Executive Summary)
7. Violence Against Children: What Do NGOs Know? What Do NGOs Say?
8. Tools for Prevention, Participatory Monitoring: Guidelines for Practitioners in the Fight Against Human Trafficking
9. Let’s Talk: Developing Effective Communication with Child Victims of Abuse and Human Trafficking
10. African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN)
11. Falling Short of the Mark: An International Study on the Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims
12. Assistance for the Implementation of the ECOWAS Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons
13. Trafficking & the Global Sex Industry
14. Vital Voices March 2006 Trafficking Alert US Edition
15. Stop Trafficking! Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter

UPDATES TO ORGANIZATION PAGES

Australia

1. Attorney-General's Department

Burma

1. World Vision

Cambodia

1. World Vision
2. Youth With a Mission (YWAM)
3. Equal Access
4. Healthcare Center for Children
5. Don Bosco Foundation
6. NYEMO
7. Cambodian Women's Crisis Centre (CWCC)

Indonesia

1. National Coalition Against Violence to Women (KOMNAS Perempuan)
2. Network of Indonesian Child Labor NGOs (JARAK)

Japan

1. HELP Asian Women's Shelter

Laos

1. World Vision

Mongolia

1. Jargalan

Philippines

1. Commission on Human Rights (CHR)

Singapore

1. Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)

Taiwan

1. Vietnamese Migrant Workers & Brides Office

Thailand

1. World Vision Foundation of Thailand (WVFT)
2. Child Workers in Asia Foundation (CWA)

United States

1. YANA (You are Never Alone), Inc.

Vietnam

1. World Vision
2. East Meets West

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