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IJM Manila: Sex Trafficking Trial Ends And Closes A "Painful Chapter" For Girls Rescued Years Ago

Fri, 01/25/2013

MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES – Two traffickers have finally been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for trafficking underage girls to a bar and selling them for sex. "Justice was served today for our society," IJM Pampanga Deputy Director Rey Bicol said on January 18, 2013, as the judge announced the decision. Rey is the IJM lawyer who has been working on this case since 2009, when the four girls were rescued.

The convictions are the first of 2013 for IJM Manila, and they mark the end of a long battle for justice.

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Series Of Sex Trafficking Rescue Operations In Kolkata A Sign Of Strong Momentum

Fri, 01/18/2013

For IJM Kolkata Field Office Director Biju Mathew, it's been impossible not to start the new year with hope, even amidst great darkness: "Here in Kolkata, we have already seen unprecedented action from the government to stop all kinds of rape, from domestic violence to sex trafficking," he says.

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Life Sentence For Rwandan Rapist: Family Says 'God Has Seen Our Tears'

Fri, 01/18/2013

KIGALI, RWANDA – Last month, a Rwandan judge took a powerful stand for vulnerable children like Colette* by sentencing the man who raped her to life in prison. It was the strongest sentence possible under the law—letting others will know that abusing children is a serious crime that will not be tolerated.

In October 2012, 10-year-old Colette was playing with friends when an adult neighbor called her over to his home. Not wanting to disobey an adult, she followed the man inside. But it was a trap: He attacked Colette and violently raped her.

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Mumbai Trafficker Will Return To Prison For Sex Trafficking Crimes

Thu, 01/17/2013

MUMBAI, INDIA – Two and a half years ago, a brutal trafficker was convicted and sentenced to prison for running a brothel where girls were sold for sex. But after serving only a couple months of her six-year prison sentence, the trafficker was released from prison on bail.

Soon after she was released from prison, she appealed the sentence. A new series of hearings began. And the trafficker returned to the same red-light district – to start a new brothel.

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IJM Helps Rescue 36 Families From Slavery In India, Including 3-Year-Old Girl

Fri, 01/11/2013

CHENNAI, INDIA – Today, nearly 150 children, women and men are celebrating freedom, rescued from slavery this week outside Hyderabad, India. More than 100 women and men – plus seven children as young as 3 years old – received official release certificates emancipating them from slavery in a brick factory.

The men and women shared how they had been physically beaten and forced to work 18 to 22 hours a day – sleeping for an hour or two and then resuming their back-breaking work in the brick kiln.

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