News roundup Sept 8th

While the last couple of blog posts have been about Craigslist, I want to be clear that I am not trying to pick on them or stigmatize them in any way. I love Craigslist, I just want to see them keep exploitation off their sites.

Trafficking is a hot topic lately.

Harvard Fellow and expert in the field of human trafficking, Siddarth Kara is on a ten week tour of South Asia investigating instances of human trafficking. He is in Nepal this week, his updates are appearing on CNN. http://ow.ly/2BtRO

New York Times editorial reporting on the largest Human Trafficking case ever brought by the U.S. federal government filed in Honolulu last week, allegedly over 400 exploited by Global Horizons Manpower in 2004 and 2005. http://ow.ly/2Bu23

A little over a week ago Spain arrested 14 people in connection with a Brazilian run prostitution ring. The exploited were mostly young Brazilian men in their 20s. Five more people were arrested yesterday in connection with this ring as well. Via Telegraph http://ow.ly/2Budl and CNN http://ow.ly/2Buh6. Interesting note here, according to the English daily, The Telegraph,

Sex is a multibillion-pound industry in Spain, with brothels staffed mainly by poor immigrant women from Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe lining motorways around the country. Respectable daily newspapers feature adverts from people selling their bodies. Prostitution falls in legal limbo: it is not regulated, although pimping is a crime.

Got a story that I missed? Leave a comment or email me: chris@anothersoul.com