Sex slavery alleged - The York Dispatch , August 18
YORK COUNTY, PA - 20 brothels in seven states were raided by the FBI and immigration officials earlier this week. The brothels allegedly held smuggled Korean women against their will and forced them into prostitution.

Asian sex-trafficking ring is broken up - The Associated Press , August 11
SEATTLE, WA - After a two year investigation, nine people have been arrested for their involvement in an international sex-trafficking ring that smuggled Asian women into the US in shipping containers.

Immigrant sisters admit charges in human trafficking - The Star-Ledger, August 4
TRENTON, NJ - Two Honduran women admitted to smuggling dozens of illegal female immigrants into the United States and forcing them to work in bars. The women admitted to overseeing dozens of illegal Hondurans, some as young as 14, who were forced to work in order to repay debts accumulated from smuggling.

North Fort Myers man gets 10 years in human trafficking case - The Associated Press, August 2
BONITA SPRINGS, FL - A 22 year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for keeping a 13 year-old Guatemalan girl as his sex slave and housekeeper. The man's sister and brother-in-law were also sentenced to prison for similar charges.

Woman jailed in housekeeper slavery case - The Associated Press, August 1
CENTENNIAL, CO - A woman was sentenced to two months in prison for holding an Indonesian woman as a slave for four years. She was charged with theft and ordered to pay $90,000 in restitution.

Rescued – the Pakistan children seized by Islamist slave traders - The Sunday Times, May 21
Hoax saves boys held for months. The slave traders came for 10-year-old Akash Aziz as he played cops and robbers in his dusty village in eastern Punjab.

Reunited: boys saved from slavers - The Sunday Times, May 21
A senior member of an Islamic organisation linked to Al-Qaeda is funding his activities through the kidnapping of Christian children who are sold into slavery in Pakistan.

Human trafficking responsibilities falling to local law agencies - NaplesNews, May 17
Radio ads in several languages and dialects are airing across Florida warning about the dangers of modern-day slavery. High-profile examples of the crime have brought documentaries and movie-makers to the state. Heads of local social service agencies recall the victim's they've found, and saved, in just a year's time.

Loveland man walks across France to bring awareness to slavery - COMMUNITY PRESS, May 17
LOVELAND -- When Timothy Sexton learned there are 27 million people living in slavery, he couldn't sit still. He had to do something. So the 26-year-old St. Xavier High School graduate and Loveland resident is walking through France this summer "to spread the word about the modern slave trade and raise money for an organization which fights it," according to his Web site, www.Firstgiving.com/walkforfreedom.

From Somerville, a sharp eye on Darfur - The Boston Globe, May 14
Mike Capuano is the first to admit he came into Congress without much knowledge of, or appetite for, foreign policy issues. "I never pretended it was my strong suit. It still is not," he says. But the former Somerville mayor, who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1998 on a Democratic bread-and-butter platform focused on domestic issues, has emerged as one of the leading congressional voices urging greater action to stop the genocide in the Darfur region.