Archive for the 'Trafficking' Category

Trafficking Women

There are very few details on this news at the moment.
Bulgarian police crack sex-trafficking ring

Mon 30 Jun 2008
Bulgarian police said on Monday they had broken an international sex-trafficking ring and arrested a Greek man believed to have run the operation.
The women from Moldova, Ukraine and Uzbekistan were sent as sex workers to Greece via neighbouring [...]

Trafficking

Via the Greek Helsinki Monitor
An article by Apostolis Fotiadis for the Inter Press Service News Agency about Nigerian women who are trafficked to Greece to work on the streets in downtown Athens.
ATHENS, Sep 25 (IPS)
Every night besides the town hall of Athens, next to Omonia square, where the narrow streets of the popular [...]

Human Trafficking

Via Kathimerini
Greece has made some progress in the problem of human trafficking, according to the 2006 US State Department report. The country has been removed from the watchlist of places that are not doing enough to combat this crime. I am not entirely sure if this is a good thing. I hope that this does [...]