Tag: Human trafficking

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

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

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

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

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