Trafficking news

U.S. brands vow to protect women making jeans from sexual abuse
Child soldiers and deaths surge in Mali as violence worsens
Opinion
People power and a princess: The royalty and anti-slavery movement
Spotlight
Life after slavery: survivors struggle to start anew
'Chicken shop gangs' using food to lure children into crime Sonia Elks
Trafficking suspect Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide Reuters
Allegations of labor abuses dogged Mississippi plant years before Reuters
China factory put teens on night shift to make Amazon devices Beh Lih Yi
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Is South America closing its 'open door' on Venezuelans? Anastasia Moloney
Child labour cartoon? Brazil turns to TV to shed light on slavery Fabio Teixeira
interview
Australia to help ASEAN firms tackle slavery in supply chains Michael Taylor
From Asia to Africa: Women trafficked to Kenya's dance bars Nita Bhalla
interview
Too many modern slaves left in limbo: UK anti-slavery chief Kieran Guilbert
Sex-trafficking victim, who killed a man as a teen, set free Reuters
African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade Reuters
Migrants mistakenly held in Thai trafficking shelters Nanchanok Wongsamuth
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UK found sending home slavery victims despite re-trafficking fears Kieran Guilbert
Director wants Thai slavery film to act as warning in Cambodia Beh Lih Yi
Indian state to map cotton supply chain to stamp out child labour Anuradha Nagaraj
India passes 'historic' minimum wage law amid activist worries Roli Srivastava
New taskforces to tackle 'missing wombs' scandal in rural India Roli Srivastava
Law makes home addresses private to protect trafficking survivors Ellen Wulfhorst
Colombia creates 'elite unit' to combat human trafficking Anastasia Moloney
Top mobile company Telefonica Brasil found guilty of slave labor Fabio Teixeira
Jeffrey Epstein could face sex trafficking trial next June Reuters
Fear of deportation silences trafficking victims - US group Ellen Wulfhorst
Visitors to US under visa program at risk of trafficking Ellen Wulfhorst
Former sex slave leads Uruguay march against human trafficking Anastasia Moloney
Hundreds of trafficking victims denied right to remain in Britain Lin Taylor
Malaysian court sides with forced labour victims over unpaid wages Beh Lih Yi
Indian women rescued from slavery count their losses Anuradha Nagaraj and Roli Srivastava
Companies must use buying power to root out slavery, says official Sonia Elks
Protests over deaths halt production at some Coal India mines Reuters
India ruling could allow millions of workers to access benefits Anuradha Nagaraj
Sewing a way out of sex work in Spain Sophie Davies
Sixteen U.S. Marines arrested on suspicion of human trafficking Reuters
interview
Ecuador to launch new anti-human trafficking plan - official Anastasia Moloney
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About our Trafficking coverage

We shine a light on human trafficking, forced labour and modern-day slavery.

Opinion

Syeda Ghulam Fatima Aurora Forum

Pakistan’s future generations need protecting from bonded labour

Greater efforts need to be made to rehabilitate the victims of bonded labour into society in ways that allow them to recover from the cycle of abuse that they have endured
Tomoko Nishimoto, Mohammad ...

Migration should be an opportunity for workers - not traffickers

Human trafficking – as well as forced labour - is a crime of opportunity. Victims are in situation of vulnerability as they attempt to build a better life for them and their families
Leticia Ishibashi

UK must stop detaining trafficking victims under immigration power

Victims of trafficking are part of a Home Office pattern of maintaining detention of vulnerable people even when detention medical staff show concern
Kailash Satyarthi Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation

Child sex trafficking in the high-speed internet era

Please remember that the children who are falling prey to online child sex trafficking are our children and we have to act now to save them

In Depth

analysis
ANALYSIS - Is South America closing its 'open door' on Venezuelans?
From Asia to Africa: Women trafficked to Kenya's Bollywood-style dance bars
New taskforces to tackle 'missing wombs' scandal in rural India
Freedom, money, babies: Indian women rescued from slavery count their losses

Videos & Pictures

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Sex trafficking - a family business
The lost girls of Myanmar
Generations of Romanian girls trafficked into sex industry
Frontline Insight: Photographing Libya’s slaves
Getting to Europe: The Game
UK police in the fight against human trafficking

Editor's Picks

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INTERVIEW - Too many modern slaves left in limbo, warns new UK anti-slavery chief
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EXCLUSIVE - UK found sending home dozens of slavery victims despite re-trafficking fears
To end slavery, free 10,000 people a day for a decade, report says
Indian state sets aside college places for slavery survivors