Kenya Launches Human Trafficking Committee

A committee to co-ordinate a campaign against human trafficking has been set up after reports indicate that the country is a transit and destination area for men, women and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking.

• Kenya:  Victims of Trafficking Need to Be Rehabilitated
  The Star, 11 July 2014
  Children who have been victims of human trafficking need to be rehabilitated after they have been rescued. Lawyer Juliet Gachanja says this would assist the victims in leading a ... read more »

Photo: Graeme Williams/UNICEF

Unaccompanied children (file photo): Kenya launches human trafficking committee.

• Kenya:  Police Bust Traffickers Selling Two-Week-Old Baby for U.S.$1,700 - Report
  AlertNet, 10 July 2014
  Kenyan police arrested six suspected baby traffickers in an undercover sting operation in a Nairobi slum, The Standard newspaper reported on Thursday. read more »
• Kenya:  Govt Launches Committee to Tackle Human Trafficking
  AlertNet, 10 July 2014
  Kenya set up a committee to coordinate its campaign against human trafficking this week, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday, in line with recommendations made by the U.S. ... read more »
• Kenya:  Mombasa Cops Urged to Fight Trafficking, Abuse
  CAJ News Agency, 1 July 2014
  LOCAL police have been urged to enforce the anti-trafficking law to investigate and prosecute offenders in Mombasa County following high cases of gender-based violence, trafficking ... read more »
• Kenya:  Child Labour, Marriage and Trafficking Keep Millions of Kenyans Out of School
  AlertNet, 16 June 2014
  Millions of Kenyan children miss out on school because they are forced to work, are married or trafficked, the child rights charity Plan International said on Monday. read more »
• Kenya:  Child Labour Survey Targets 25 Counties
  The Star, 14 June 2014
  A lobby group will conduct a survey on the number of children subjected to child labour in 25 counties. The International Day of the African child and Youth says eight nations from ... read more »
• Africa:  Countries Make Progress On Ending Exploitative Child Labor (document)
  United States Department of State, 12 June 2014
  An ambitious social movement to eradicate child labor globally came together two decades ago and has enjoyed unprecedented success, according to the U.S. Agency for International ... read more »