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Catholic nun in India calls for probe into reported sale of...

A report on The Hindu newspaper on April 6 described how supposedly poor mothers sell infants, citing two cases in the first week of April

Human trafficking in Cambodia nearly doubled in 2021

In its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report, the US State Department placed Cambodia on its Tier 2 Watchlist for the third consecutive year

At age 14, “I sensed that I was being sold for...

Human trafficking for commercial sex continues to be a challenge in India, but since 2018, a Catholic project has been able to rescue 10,161 victims

Bangladesh Church leaders cite need to work hard against human trafficking

There have been estimates that about 200,000 Bangladeshi women and children have been trafficked out of the country in the last 10 years

Pope Francis: Human trafficking has created ‘an open wound on the...

The pope condemned both the human trafficking of laborers and sex trafficking, which he said relegates women to “dispensers of pleasure”

Debt-trapped Lao ‘chat girls’ forced to sell sex in China-run economic...

Many women in the debt trap have attempted to reach out to Lao authorities for help

Pope Francis calls for end to ‘instrumentalization’ of migrants

Pope Francis spoke after 27 people drowned in the Channel on Wednesday trying to reach Britain

Rescuers of child victims abuse them, too

This is corruption without mercy. It must be exposed and the culprits identified and brought to justice.

With Assam silk and trees, Indians fight climate change and trafficking

Families across Assam are weaving and restoring forests to boost their incomes in a region hit by frequent floods and low farm yields

Human trafficking: Why so few convictions?

Young women and boys are especially targeted and offered fake jobs and given empty promises

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