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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 ...
Victims of sex trafficking could sue U.S. websites that connect customers to them, experts said, as a new law signals a drive by Washington to clamp down on soaring internet sex slavery. The legislation, passed in April, aims to make it easier to prosecute social ...
Italy seeks to close ports to migrant boat, wants reluctant Malta to open its doors
Italy will refuse to let a humanitarian ship carrying more than 600 migrants dock at its ports and has asked the Mediterranean island of Malta to open its doors to the vessel, government officials said on Sunday. Malta brushed off the request, saying it had ...
46 rescued from forced prostitution or labor in Japan in 2017
Forty-six victims of human trafficking were rescued from forced prostitution or forced labor in Japan in 2017, down slightly from the 50 assisted during the previous year, a government report showed Friday. Of those rescued, Japanese nationals made up the largest share — at 28, ...
Japanese father and son face trafficking and child abuse charges in the Philippines
A Japanese man and his son face human trafficking and child abuse charges involving the mistreatment of 13 compatriots on a small island in the southern Philippines, police said Wednesday. They said Hajime Kawauchi, 61, and his son, Yuya, 34, have been detained since May ...
