Tag: Human trafficking

Economic hardship in Lao villages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is driving a new surge in the trafficking to China of Lao women and girls

In many cases, girls and young women are often tricked, abducted or coerced into marrying much older men, widowers or alcoholics

It’s estimated that 40.3 million people are held in conditions of modern slavery, including nearly 25 million in forced labor, and 15.4 million in forced marriage

Thousands of women and girls from Nepal are trafficked to India and elsewhere for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation each year

With borders still closed to the public, ‘local brokers' are exploiting a section of the population that is drowning in debt

Desperate to get home, six Bangladeshi women now devastated by delays

An exodus of millions of refugees has provided a boon to human traffickers in the Middle East

Chinese men typically pay brokers between $10,000 and $20,000 for a foreign wife

Many find themselves stuck in China’s poorest communities, where the one-child policy has led to an overabundance of men and too few women

More than 40 million people are held in modern slavery, which includes forced labor and forced marriage