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Amy Schumer, Asley Judd join calls to free U.S. trafficking victim jailed for murder
Actors Amy Schumer and Ashley Judd have backed a campaign for an American woman convicted of killing a man who paid to have sex with her as a child to be given clemency. Cyntoia Brown was 16 when she was convicted of murder and has ...
The stranger showed up at the girl's door one night with a tantalizing job offer: Give up your world, and I will give you a future. It was a chance for 16-year-old Marselina Neonbota to leave her isolated village in one of the poorest parts ...
Thousands of Myanmar women forced into marriage in China: study
Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands. China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to ...
Sex, drugs and ... slavery? Human trafficking hidden in U.K. hotels
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll — nothing new for the hospitality industry but British hoteliers say loud music, used condoms and alcohol could hint at something darker: modern-day slavery. Add last-minute bookings, paying in cash or landing without luggage — all are warning signs ...
To fight migrant smugglers, EU seeks closer North African ties
EU leaders vowed Thursday to intensify talks with Egypt and other North African countries on how to curb flows of illegal migrants to Europe and to fight those who traffic them. European Council President Donald Tusk said the leaders meeting in the Austrian city of ...
Black magic traps Nigerians in sex slavery abroad
When lesions broke out on Florence's face, she thought she had crossed a black magic curse that had been cast on her as she left Nigeria to work in Russia's sex trade. Florence is one of a rising number of poor women lured in recent ...
Myanmar victim of 'bride trafficking' tells of six years of brutal captivity in China
They were the first photos Marip Lu had ever taken of her son. It broke her heart to think they might also be the last. The 3-year-old was standing in their living room in the rural Chinese village of Gucheng, brown eyes beaming as he ...
A second federal lawsuit accusing a pair of Oklahoma business owners of luring immigrants to the U.S. on work visas then paying substandard wages highlights what some attorneys say is a prevalent human trafficking issue in the United States that seldom calls violators to ...
It is estimated that more than 40 million people around the world are enslaved, an appalling number that may even be an underestimate.
A British-based nurse who used the threat of voodoo on five women to traffic them from Nigeria to work as prostitutes in Germany was on Wednesday jailed for 14 years. Passing sentence, Judge Richard Bond said that Liberia-born nurse Josephine Iyamu was guilty of "vile" ...
U.S. lifts Japan into higher tier in annual report on tackling human trafficking; Myanmar demoted
The United States has upgraded Japan to include it among countries it considers fully meet minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, according to a State Department report released Thursday. It is the first time that the U.S. has ranked Japan on Tier 1, ...
Thailand turns to tech to end slavery at sea as workers push for rights
Enslaved on a Thai fishing vessel for 11 years, Tun Lin saw his fellow workers lose their minds one after another, with one fisherman jumping into the sea to end his life. Some would start murmuring or laughing to themselves as they worked day and ...
