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November 2005: Sex Trafficking Also see: November 2005: Prostitution |
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04-Nov-05 | I was sold for GBP2,000, but I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm free now | Evening Standard |
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This article describes Natasha, a Russian teenager who was a victim of sex trafficker Niki Dimitrov. (See 2004 articles: Pimp sold 'London's youngest escort' / Pimp threatened to kill girl and others regarding the case) |
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06-Nov-05 | Sex-trafficked victims to be offered refuge | Sunday Herald Jenifer Johnston |
Trafficked victims discovered during raids on brothels in Glasgow are to be offered 30 days “safe haven” in the city, even though the move contradicts current Home Office policy. | |
| 07-Nov-05 | Forced to sell their bodies far from home | Maclean's Vol.118, Iss. 45 Isabel Vincent |
Historical account of sex trafficking from the 1860s to the late 1930s. Thousands of young Jewish women from Eastern Europe were sold, tricked or forced into prostitution in Latin America, South Africa, India and the US. In Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas, Vincent describes their lives of hardship and essential banishment from the Jewish community. (Source: Proquest database) | ||
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10-Nov-05 | Man denies trafficking prostitute | BBC News |
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| 10-Nov-05 | Sex-trade children flown to region | Yorkshire Post Paul Jeeves |
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Sex traffickers are using smaller airports due to tighter controls at Heathrow and Gatwick. | |
| 11-Nov-05 | Court told of forced prostitution | BBC News |
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Cardiff Executive Sauna and Abigail's. Cardiff Crown Court case: 20 yr. old Lithuanian sex trafficking victim. Defendants Akil Likcami , "Benny" and Gjerji Mungiovi-Cuka. |
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| 11-Nov-05 | Mine for £1,300: Ileana, the teenage sex slave ready to work in London 'You say she work for you. Or we have other ways' | Telegraph David Harrison |
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Undercover investigation into sex trafficking. | |
| 13-Nov-05 | 'I was raped and beaten. I lost the will to run away' | Telegraph David Harrison |
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Details re: UK sex trafficking | |
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14-Nov-05 | Pair deny sex trafficking charges | BBC News |
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Court case - Sex trafficking Albanian Leonard Llanaj and girlfriend Lisa Benjamin deny charges of sex trafficking two Lithuanian women. |
| 15-Nov-05 | Student denies prostituting woman | BBC News |
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Cardiff Executive Sauna and Abigail's Cardiff Crown Court case: 20 yr. old Lithuanian sex trafficking victim. Defendants Akil Likcami , "Benny" (who remains at large) and Gjerji Mungiovi-Cuka. |
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| 17-Nov-05 | Police fears over sex trafficking | BBC News |
Cardiff Executive Sauna and Abigail's Police who investigated how a Lithuanian woman was forced to work as a Cardiff prostitute by a gang have said they fear there are similar cases. |
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| 17-Nov-05 | Student guilty of sex trafficking |
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Cardiff Executive Sauna and Abigail's Cardiff Crown Court case: 20 yr. old Lithuanian sex trafficking victim. Defendants Akil Likcami , "Benny" (who remains at large) and Gjerji Mungiovi-Cuka. |
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| 18-Nov-05 | Sex worker's fear for foreigners | BBC News |
Cardiff "Louise", a prostitute working in Cardiff has spoken of her fears for the growing number of foreign women being forced to work in brothels across the city. She believes that 90% of the girls are pushed into it and that police should take a more active role in check the activity of brothels. |
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| 18-Nov-05 | Email saved girl from life of vice | South Wales Echo Lauren Turner |
Lithuanian victim Albanian sex traffickers: Gjerji Mungiovi-Cuka and Akil Likcani |
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21-Nov-05 | Child trafficking a concern in Ireland | Business Travelers |
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The Irish Times reported that health authorities in Ireland have expressed fears that most of the 250 children who have disappeared from care in the last four years have been trafficked and are being sexually exploited. Original article published in Irish Times (subscription only.) |
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23-Nov-05 | Mayo Women's groups to organise ‘Days of Action’ | Western People | Events held from Friday, November 25th to Saturday, December 10th. Short ritual to commemorate the women who have lost their lives, women who are missing, women who are subject to rape and sexual assault, sexual abuse, women who are trafficked and forced into prostitution held on Friday, December 9th. | |
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27-Nov-05 | Revealed: kept in a dungeon ready to be sold as slaves...the women destined for Britain's sex trade | Telegraph David Harrison |
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David Harrison reports from Skopje re: sex slaves to be sent to western countries, including Britain. |
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| 28-Nov-05 | Baltic girls forced into sex slavery | BBC News Martha Buckley |
Investigation by BBC Six O'Clock News | ||