More needs to be done to ensure that human traffickers are brought to justice and Rohingya migrants are protected, rights groups said Thursday, after a trial in which 62 people were convicted of crimes including trafficking and murder. A Bangkok court convicted the 62, including ...
The United States on Tuesday listed China as among the worst countries for human trafficking while Japan remained in Tier 2, the second-highest classification on the four-tier list. In the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report, the State Department dropped China from the Tier 2 Watch ...
The Trump administration is poised to declare China among the world's worst offenders on human trafficking, U.S. officials said Monday, putting the world's most populous country in the same category as North Korea, Zimbabwe and Syria, China's downgrade is to be announced Tuesday at the ...
Fifty people were rescued from human traffickers in Japan in 2016, with Japanese nationals making up half of the victims, a government report showed Tuesday. Of the 50, 13 were aged 17 or younger, according to the annual report approved by the government. "We need to ...
Hundreds of women were brought from Thailand to the U.S. and forced to be "modern day sex slaves," according to an indictment unsealed Thursday that charges high-level members of what authorities called a sophisticated sex-trafficking ring that concealed millions of dollars in earnings. The indictment ...
The National Policy Agency reports that forced prostitution and human trafficking victimized 46 people across Japan in 2016, but one group says the figures are just the start.
Police said Monday they have arrested three people in a sex-trafficking case involving Cambodian women and discovered 10 Thai women who may also be victims of the same prostitution ring. Two Japanese men and a Thai woman were taken into custody after allegedly forcing the ...
Eight human traffickers found guilty of torturing and chopping off the hands of two laborers have received life prison sentences and hefty fines, a prosecutor said on Sunday. The hope is that the severity of the punishment will deter others from repeating the crime. Prosecutor Dhirendra ...
A Yazidi woman imprisoned and raped by Islamic State fighters said she had no idea about the scourge of human trafficking until she found herself enslaved with thousands of other women. Nadia Murad Basee Taha has become the face of Yazidi women captured in northwestern ...
A Japanese man was detained Friday at Manila International Airport on suspicion of trafficking a minor, the Philippines aviation security authority said Saturday. Reported Manila resident Akio Watanabe, 68, was stopped as he and an 18-year-old Filipina were preparing to board a flight to Japan, ...
Amsterdam sex workers on Thursday launched a project described as unique in Europe — a brothel run by the prostitutes themselves with no exploitation, thanks to financing from a social investment fund. "Today we are witnessing a breakthrough in the empowerment of sex workers. It ...
