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ATLANTA (AP) - Emory University's law school plans to host a daylong conference on human trafficking.

The 10th annual Emory Public Interest Committee Conference, "Neighbors for Sale: Modern Slavery in Atlanta," is scheduled for Sept. 21. Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens is set to be the keynote speaker.

Panel sessions will explore human trafficking in the metro area, responses of local government and nongovernment organizations, and ways the legal community can act to help prevent trafficking.

Organizers will also provide opportunities for action through volunteering with victims' groups or legislative work.

The conference will also feature investigators and lawyers who work on trafficking cases, health care workers and charities that work with victims and lawmakers and lobbyists who work on trafficking laws.

The event is open to the public but registration is required.

(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

Voice of Freedom Campaign

This organization is doing a fantastic job on the issue of trafficking of Sub-Saharan refugees in the Sinai desert in Egypt.

LINKS

Information on Voice of Freedom:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/voice-of-freedom

http://www.photovoice.org/events/article/voice-of-freedoms-indiegogo-campaign-goes-live-tomorrow

http://ourvoiceoffreedom.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/voiceoffreedom.uk

@voicefreedompix

Human Rights Watch report on trafficking of Sub-Saharan asylum seekers in the Sinai desert, Egypt:   

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/05/egypt-end-sinai-nightmare-migrants

VIDEO

Leila Segal, explaining the purpose of the Voice of Freedom campaign:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CL1mzZqd3c8

 Leila Segal, speaking at the ERSA conference at Amnesty International 16 August 2013, about the power of photography in expressing and advocating around difficult emotion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93WHOCMD-2o

  ‘Shelter: 10 Days in South Tel Aviv’ written and read by Leila Segal. Performed at the Matrix Chambers in London on World Refugee Day (20 June 2012), this piece explores the perspective of women refugees – victims of human trafficking in Israel.

http://ourvoiceoffreedom.wordpress.com/gallery-links/video/

Khedijah Ali, shows her support for Voice of Freedom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koLJXSva6Pg

TESTIMONIES FROM PARTICIPANTS ON PREVIOUS PHOTOVOICE WORKSHOPS:

I really enjoy taking photos, and before the project I kept thinking if I could get the opportunity I would take photos to tell my story. It was my dream, and finally through PhotoVoice my dream became true. When I completed my project - the book My London - that was the happiest moment in my life. Every single photo made me very happy. I took my book to all my friends and they were very happy.
Masoud Shinwari, My Londoners and 2010 bursary

In order to make something of ourselves we need a little bit of help – that help from PhotoVoice has meant a lot to me.  That help makes a huge difference between being an outsider or being like everyone else.  

Tatiana, 17 years

Transparency, photography by unaccompanied refugee youth, London, UK

With PhotoVoice I made my first steps – the project helped me to learn not just photography but many other things.  We got the chance to express ourselves and to tell English people what is like to be a young refugee. I had something I wanted to tell … People have to understand what a big difference there is between our different countries.  It is like the difference between night and day. I don't think anyone comes like a tourist, just coming here to have fun. I don't want to be a refugee but I was not given any choice.   With PhotoVoice we had the chance to tell this message to English people and let them understand about our problems

Bajram, 16 years

Transparency, photography by unaccompanied refugee youth, London, UK

‘At the beginning I thought photography was magic, now I am a photographer myself and I can train others in photography. I will never forget this training and what it has done for me. Even if I die tomorrow I die knowing that I have been able to document my life through photography’

Julie Salima, project participant

Positive Negatives, photography by HIV+ women, Democratic Republic of Congo

This project is the first chance we have been given to express things we keep inside to the outside world.

Aita Singh, 18 yrs,

The Children’s Forum, photography by Bhutanese refugee youth, Nepal

“Thanks PhotoVoice for helping me learn how to express my feelings. I was blind and now I see why I’m living. My future is bright. I’ve taken a step and even my mind is open.”

Fikile, Youth Photo-Reflect, South Africa

“The project changed my feelings about my community and made me strong enough to talk about the issues in Orange Farm.”

Lebogang, Youth Photo-Reflect, South Africa

“I learnt the camera is a weapon- it’s very powerful – I learnt how to use it carefully.”

S Ramesh, Unheard Voices, Hidden Lives India

Katie Couric and John Walsh discuss human trafficking

http://katiecouric.com/videos/john-walsh-human-trafficking-one-survivors-story/

North Dakota Man pleads guilty to human trafficking charge

Man pleads guilty to human trafficking charge

Published 8:34 am, Tuesday, September 10, 2013

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Washington state man has pleaded guilty to attempted human trafficking in North Dakota.

The Bismarck Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/17NZV6Q ) that 32-year-oldAaron Collins admitted to a judge in Bismarck that he made arrangements with a woman over the Internet to pay $500 for an hour with the woman's two teenage daughters.

Court documents list Collins' home as Kelso, Wash, though the Tribune reports he has been living in the western oil patch city of Tioga. He faces up to 20 years in prison. A sentencing date was not immediate set.

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Information from: Bismarck Tribune, http://www.bismarcktribune.com

Is Homegrown Prostitution Sex Trafficking?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zx2SAKjTWg&feature=youtu.be

Check out this video...

Law enforcement officials say everyday domestic prostitution is a form of human sex trafficking. Illinois and a few other states are shifting their view of prostitution -- taking aim at customers and pimps, while offering help to prostitutes. AP

MTV's new film about human trafficking in China. Check it out.

http://in.reuters.com/video/2013/09/04/mtvs-new-film-about-human-trafficking-in?videoId=266600256&videoChannel=103&utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffercef74&utm_medium=twitter

MTV's new film about human trafficking in China (1:22) 

Sept. 4 - MTV releases a documentary entitled ''Human Traffic: China'' in Beijing, with the aim of drawing attention to the human trafficking trade across Asian countries. Tara Cleary reports. ( Transcript )

EXPOSURES

Women, Bought and Sold in Nepal

Katie Orlinsky

Police question young women at the Kakarbhitta crossing in eastern Nepal,along the border with India. Advocates against human trafficking have asked the border police,often known for corruption, for help. More Photos »

By KATIE ORLINSKY

Published: August 31, 2013

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NEPAL may be known for natural beauty and Mount Everest, but there is a dark side to this small, picturesque country. Women and girls are being bought, sold and smuggled across the Nepal-India border. Although reliable data on the scope of the issue is difficult to gather, Unicef reports that as many as 7,000 women and girls are trafficked out of Nepal to India every year, and around 200,000 are now working in Indian brothels.

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Women, Bought and Sold in Nepal

I traveled to Nepal last spring to document the growing problem of sex trafficking and unsafe migration, spending the majority of time in Katmandu and along the Nepal-India border.

One of the women I talked with was Charimaya Tamang, who 19 years ago went out to the fields to cut grass in her village in Nepal. Typically she would have gone with other women from her village, but that day she was alone. A group of men grabbed her from behind, tied her hands and made her swallow “a powder.” When she woke up she was in a city in northern India. “I had never seen tall buildings before,” she recalled. It was a lot hotter than her village and the men offered her a soda. “I didn’t want to drink it but I was so thirsty,” she said. The heat and soda were her last memories before finding herself in a Mumbai brothel under the care of a woman she called “Auntie,” where she remained in forced prostitution for 22 months.

The sex trafficking starts with the procurers in Nepal, who might be anyone: a stranger with a fake job to offer — or a girl’s own brother in-law. Then someone else escorts the women across the open border and out of the country. “The pimp might take a girl across the border in a cycle-rickshaw and put a tikka dot on her forehead so it looks like she and he are married,” said Pamela Gurung, an activist affiliated with the Nepalese branch of the Catholic nonprofit group Caritas Internationalis, which among other things fights human trafficking throughout Nepal. Anti-trafficking workers have started to train border police officers to be on the lookout for scared-looking women, suspicious couples or men with multiple women. But border police officers are not paid much. Many are bribed as part of the vast criminal network of trafficking between India and Nepal.

A brothel pimp or madam pays close to $2,000 for one trafficked Nepalese girl, according to Rupa Rai, head of Caritas Nepal’s gender department. The girl is then obligated to repay this fee over time. Charimaya Tamang was the first woman in Nepal to file charges against her trafficker and win. The very same men that made her drink that soda were caught and put in jail, she said.

Ms. Tamang then began advocating on behalf of other trafficked women. Today she is married with two children and lives in a small room on the third floor of a dilapidated concrete building in Katmandu. On the wall above her bed is a glass display case nearly 12 feet long filled with awards. The situation in Nepal is improving in certain ways, thanks to activists like her, international pressure and better coordination with the Indian police. But the problem is daunting, and the number of trafficked women continues to grow.

Katie Orlinsky is a photographer, journalist and cinematographer.

Laura Sheahen contributed reporting and research.