Who is benefitting from the crime of trafficking? Stop Hypocrisy. Time to act now!

Statement of EWL and partners for the 5th meeting of the EU Civil Society Platform on Trafficking in Human Beings (21-22 May 2015, Brussels) [Brussels, 21 May 2015] As the 5th meeting of the EU Civil Society Platform on Trafficking in Human Beings is about to start, our organisations call on the EU member states …

A sex slave of WW2 demands apologies from the responsible

A South Korean woman who worked in Japanese military brothels during the war has called on Japan’s prime minister to apologise to her and other survivors ofwartime sexual slavery when he visits the US next week. Shinzo Abe is expected to touch on Japan’s wartime conduct when he becomes the first Japanese prime minister to …

Greece: Human traffickers walk free from court

Four individuals, including the former owner of a bakery chain, were served suspended sentences ranging from 10 to 12.5 years by a criminal appeals court on Tuesday for human trafficking. The four, who were tried in a case of sexual trafficking ring that provided women to nightclub and stripjoint clients, included the leader of the …

Human traffickers run a huge bakery chain in Athens

The co-owner of a well-known bakery chain denied charges at a criminal court in Athens on Tuesday which claimed that he was the leader of a major sex trafficking ring. According to reports, the accused who was operating this criminal organization with his brother, purposely lured foreign women to Greece and then forced them to work …

FEMNET Statement on Abduction of Girls in Chibok, Nigeria

We the members of the FEMNET Board, Secretariat as well as Members comprising of women’s rights activists and organizations from over 42 countries in Africa as well as from the Diaspora condemn in the strongest possible terms the abduction, proposed sale of young girls and the sluggish response of the Government of Nigeria to take …