[Stop-traffic] News/US: Hawaii group seeks halt to human trafficking

[Melanie Orhant]

http://starbulletin.com/2003/11/19/news/index7.html

Excerpt:

Hawaii group seeks
halt to human trafficking

By Sally Apgar
sapgar@starbulletin.com

In the 21st century, slavery is a worldwide problem in which 
psychological and financial coercion have as strong a grip on victims 
as leg shackles and a foreman's whip, say experts who met at the 
Capitol yesterday to discuss the problem.
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