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In 1904, the International Agreement for the Suppression of "White Slave Traffic" was signed and put into action.
The purpose of this agreement was to protect women, young and old, from being involved in "white slave traffic." White slavery referred to forcing or deceiving a white woman or girl into prostitution. -
The League of Nations was founded after the WWI, and had the goal maintaining world peace and also focusing on international issues such as human trafficking.
two major studies were conducted, one in the West and one in the East, in an attempt to find out the real status of trafficking in these areas. -
During WWII, Japan had set up a horrifying and outrageous system where women all across Asia were forced into sexual slavery.
The women were housed in what were known as "comfort stations." The conditions in these stations were atrocious, with each woman detained in a small cubicle -
In 1956, India initiated the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act
Many of the arrests that were made were for sex workers due to soliciting, and they ultimately lost everything. -
In 1995, the United Nations held the fourth World Conference to address the issue of trafficking of women.
enforcing international conventions on trafficking and human slavery, address the factors that encourage trafficking, set up effective law enforcement and institutions who would work to eliminate trafficking both nationally and internationally -
On February 14, 2002, the Polaris Project was officially founded by Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman
non-profit working to stop human trafficking Their key developments include a national, toll-free hotline where they receive information or reports regarding human trafficking -
In 2008, a case emerged where several migrants were found to be illegally smuggled into Thailand by traffickers.
There were 67 survivors of the journey, and they told of how they had hopes of finding work in Thailand, but conditions in the lorry suddenly became unbearable. -
In 2009, a large human trafficking ring was busted in Taipei, Taiwan.
They were discovered by the National Immigration Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. A total of 74 suspects from the trafficking ring were brought in for investigation ("Largest"). -
President Obama declared January to be Human Trafficking Awareness month, and Jan. 11, 2011 was named National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
On this day, various individual, as well as group events took place in an attempt to increase awareness about human trafficking among the general public.
