Human Trafficking

Venezuela: what will the future look like?

By Rachel Rozak
November 19, 2018

As conditions worsen in Venezuela, more and more families are finding themselves in a state of food insecurity.  As of 2016, two-thirds of all Caracas households surveyed by the children’s rights group Cecodap reported that they were not eating a substantial quantity of food, and that number has been rising (Walkers 2016).  With few alternatives, many parents have had to turn their nightmares into reality and give up their children in an effort to provide them with food.

Baby Trafficking Ring Busted in Peru: A Conversation on Global Child Trafficking Networks

By Kristen Martinez-Gugerli
November 14, 2018

This month, authorities in Peru uncovered a widespread baby-trafficking ring in and around the southern city of Arequipa. It appears that the gang operated by preying on poor pregnant women who could not afford to raise a child, and convincing them to sell their babies when they were born. Peruvian authorities have labeled the trafficking ring’s participants ‘Los Desalmados del Tráfico Humano’ (‘The Soulless Human Traffickers’). Although it is seldom discussed in mainstream circles, the trade of newborns and young children is relatively common in developing countries all around the world, including Indonesia and Nigeria.

Prostituição Infantil no Brasil e a Copa do Mundo

By Peter Yehl
October 19, 2016

Com o início da Copa do Mundo de 2014 chegando rapidamente, ainda tem muita preocupação se o Brasil vai conseguir terminar as construções antes da sua estréia contra a Croácia, no dia 12 de junho. Menos de 100 dias antes do apito inicial, estádios em 4 das 12 cidades-sede permanecem sob construção, assim come grande parte dos locais ao redor dos estádios e a infraestrutura dos transportes.

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