The Week in Trafficking

A weekly links roundup of human trafficking in the news.

US News

Michigan House Oks bill to presume teens charged with prostitution are sex trafficking victims

Klobuchar introduces bill to model nationwide approach to human trafficking after Minnesota’s efforts

First ever Massachusetts human trafficking guide for attorneys published

Focus on human trafficking shift to labor

North Dakota senator’s bill aims to corral sex trafficking

International News

Special Report: Thailand secretly supplies Myanmar refugees to trafficking rings

Eritrea’s military is trafficking the nation’s children, report says 

Montenegro arrest 22 over human trafficking 

Organ trafficking, Mexican cartels are among Costa Rica’s biggest criminal threats, say UN 

National report on combatting human trafficking endorsed (Jordan)

Parliament approves human trafficking combatting act (Sudan)

Government will reveal plan to combat human trafficking next spring (UK)

New prostitution law passes French lower house 

New report profiles human traffickers (Australia)

1080 illegal migrants detained in extensive operation against human trafficking networks (Turkey)

Moldova fights human trafficking with interactive theater 

Banning recruitment fees would help fight against trafficking (UK)

Human trafficking on the rise across Morang border (Nepal, India)

Micronesia leaders slam human trafficking report