Human Trafficking News for November 1, 2012

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigators have cracked a ring of human traffickers that specialized in selling babies in the country's volatile North Caucasus region, Moscow's Investigative Committee said on Thursday. Police detained a 62-year-old woman in the regional capital of Chechnya when she tried to sell a newborn baby boy for 550,000 roubles ($17,500) to an undercover policeman posing as …

Barcelona, Nov. 1 (ANI): Spanish police have reportedly unearthed a human trafficking ring in Barcelona, leading to the arrest of 18 people suspected of smuggling around 1,000 Pakistanis every year into the European Union.