Tag Archive: human trafficking

Lohan to visit Guatemala for charity work

London, Dec 28 (IANS) Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan is planning a trip to Guatemala for charity work after returning from a visit to India, said her mother Dina Lohan.

The ‘Mean Girls’ star flew to New Delhi earlier this month to shoot a BBC documentary about child poverty and human trafficking. The charity work ‘humbled and [...]

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LOHAN PLANS NEXT CHARITY TRIP TO GUATEMALA

LINDSAY LOHAN is planning a charity trip to Guatemala after returning from a visit to India “a changed woman”, according to her mother DINA.

The Mean Girls star flew to New Delhi earlier this month (Dec09) to shoot a BBC documentary about child poverty and human trafficking.
She quickly took to her Twitter.com page to [...]

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6,431 Pakistanis languishing in foreign jails

Lahore, Dec. 22 (ANI): A total of 6,431 Pakistanis are jailed abroad in 72 countries, the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis has claimed.

The Dawn quoted a ministry document, as saying that there are 1,228 Pakistanis in United Arab Emirates, 1,152 in Saudi Arabia and 712 in India jails. ccording to the document, the Ministry of Overseas [...]

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Six Bangladeshi men arrested in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Dec 18 (IANS) Six Bangladeshi men have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district for their alleged involvement in a human trafficking racket, police said Friday.

‘Acting on a tip-off from the officials of the intelligence department, we raided a hideout in the Tirahakala area and nabbed six Bangladeshis, who are in the age group [...]

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BBC BOSSES DEFEND LOHAN

Bosses at Britain’s BBC TV network have come to the defence of LINDSAY LOHAN after she was accused of exaggerating her good work on a recent trip to India.

The Mean Girls star flew to New Delhi last week (beg07Dec09) to shoot a BBC documentary about poverty and human trafficking and within hours of arriving [...]

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THE THINGS THEY SAY:

“Going to make one of my lifelong dreams on my list of things to do in this lifetime! Wish me luck! Over 40 children saved so far… Within one day’s work… This is what life is about. Doing THIS is a life worth living!!! Oh, and I’m talking about being in India.” LINDSAY LOHAN updates [...]

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New law to create safe environment for migration: official

Panaji, Dec 1 (IANS) The central government will soon enact the Immigration Management Act, which will provide for a safe environment for migration, a senior official of the overseas Indian affairs (OIA) ministry said Tuesday.

Speaking during the inaugural session of the 8th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) conference on Migration and Development at The Lalit resort here, [...]

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20 illegal herb-pickers to be deported to India

London, Oct 22 (IANS) Twenty Indian illegal migrants are to be deported to India following a major swoop by police and home ministry officials in the town of Thetford in eastern England, authorities said Thursday.

Around 35 officers from the UK Border Agency and Norfolk Constabulary raided a number of premises Tuesday and found 23 Indians, [...]

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Pak minister accused of human trafficking

Islamabad, Oct.4 (ANI): Pakistan’s Minister for Population Welfare Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has landed in yet another controversy as now she has been accused of being involved in human trafficking.

According to The Dawn, Awan has been accused of tampering her National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) records.

Awan, reportedly, represented two boys and one girl as [...]

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Half the districts in India are affected by human trafficking: NCW

New Delhi, Oct 4 (ANI): According to a report of the National Commission for Women, (NCW) at least half of the 612 districts in the country are affected by trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation.

The NCW report says that in 378 districts, there [...]

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Nepali women being sent to Gulf held

Lucknow, Sep 20 (IANS) Three Nepali women who were being allegedly trafficked to the Gulf have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh while they were headed to New Delhi to take a flight, police said.

A fourth Nepali woman who was allegedly part of a human trafficking gang was also taken into custody Saturday evening from the [...]

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Four Nepali women being sent to Muscat detained at Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur, Sept 19 (ANI): Volunteers of a social service organisation and the personnel of the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell of Uttar Pradesh Police at Gorakhpur detained four Nepalese women.

Reportedly, as per the statement of the women who were taken into custody at [...]

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