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V Sailakshmi, 39, says sex work helped pay for her sister's wedding and for her father's funeral
Women & Gender
‘We are demanding full decriminalization’: Sex workers in India rally for labor rights
Police officers with guns drawn patrol the streets of Haiti
Top of The World
Haitian police: Foreign hit squad killed President Moïse
A worker wearing a yellow safety hat inspects disposable blue gloves at a factory.
Human rights
US human trafficking report elicits anger from several countries
Rohingya refugees who were intercepted by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency off Langkawi island, are escorted in their boat as they are handed over to immigration authorities, at the Kuala Kedah ferry jetty in Malaysia, April 3, 2018.
Human rights
A US report shows big strides on human trafficking. Advocates say the message is misleading.
A young man stands in front of media surrounded by other men
Sexual violence
South Korea reels from latest high-tech, online sex trafficking case
Two women walk with their hands clasped together as they're surrounded by a crowd of reporters
Sexual violence
How sex traffickers use modeling contracts to lure young women
An old woman stands in front of a table in a home.
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘A classic tale of human greed’: California caregivers earn as little as $2 an hour
A woman sits with her back to the camera surrounded by other women
Traffickers used Russia’s World Cup to enslave us, say Nigerian women
A woman is shown with a colorful purple and white scarf over her head and her hand held against her face.
Satellites to survivors: 5 goals for the anti-slavery fight in 2019
A street is shown filled with many women with arms raised rallying against prostitution.
Sexuality
Prostitution takes center stage as Spanish feminists rally to eliminate violence against women
A former sex buyer, now in recovery, revisits Boston's Chinatown where he sometimes frequented erotic massage parlors. He says such establishments are all over the state.
Economics
Across the US, many illicit massage parlors avoid police detection
people at a funeral
Justice
Ten migrants dead in overheated truck in Texas, driver charged
Fainess Lipenga was trafficked by her boss, a former diplomat in the US from Malawi. Now, Lipenga is an advocate for victims of human trafficking.
Justice
This woman says she was trafficked by a diplomat. And it happens all the time.
Palm oil workers load palm fruits into a truck at Asia World palm oil plantation in Bank Mae Village, Myanmar, Nov. 11, 2016.
Justice
These Burmese palm oil workers say they’re trapped on plantations
A prostitute from Eastern Europe waits for customers along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice
Conflict
How tech companies are trying to combat trafficking
Man standing in front of ranch sign and American flag
Justice
This rancher in Arizona doesn’t necessarily want a wall — but he does want more done along the border
Damayan Cleaning Cooperative
Business
Filipina trafficking survivors launch a co-op — and they own their own jobs
Conflict
What does human trafficking look like today? How do we stop it?
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Environment
After the floods come the human traffickers, but these girls are fighting back
John Kerry state department human trafficking report 2015 malaysia upgrade
Justice
US human trafficking report is called ‘toilet paper’ after it upgrades Malaysia’s ranking
Justice
The darker side of Thailand’s sex industry: trafficking underage girls
One of the ‘boat people.’ A Bangladeshi migrant allowed into Indonesia after weeks at sea.
Development
Under heavy pressure, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia grant temporary shelter to thousands of refugees trapped at sea
Italian coastguard personnel in protective clothing carry the body of a dead immigrant off their ship, Bruno Gregoretti, in the Grand Harbor of Valletta, Malta, on April 20, 2015.
Justice
‘I am saving up to take the death boat to Europe’
Justice
The sex trafficking industry in Thailand is way more complex than you thought
Thae Chaung IDP camp
Conflict
Human traffickers find easy prey among Myanmar’s minorities
Shukri Alassouli's wife and two children were among some 450 people who drowned in a fishing boat rammed by people smugglers last month in the Mediterranean Ocean.
Conflict
A ‘mass murder in the Mediterranean’ leaves nearly 450 lost at sea, including this man’s family
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Business, Economics and Jobs
‘You send your children away because, like human beings everywhere, you want them to have a decent life’
Nigerian women in Lagos protest to demand the release of abducted school girls.
Conflict & Justice
Can Boko Haram follow through on its threat to sell kidnapped girls into slavery? Maybe
Nigerian women in Lagos protest to demand the release of abducted school girls.
Conflict & Justice
Can Boko Haram follow through on its threat to sell kidnapped girls into slavery? Maybe
Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general
Conflict & Justice
The US has long worked to prevent diplomats from mistreating household workers
"Mint", 24, is a former sex worker, now working at NightLight, an organization that hires former prostitutes.
Conflict & Justice
Groups ‘rescue’ Thai sex workers, whether they want it or not
Conflict & Justice
U.S. plans stepped up efforts to combat human trafficking
Global Politics
Sex trafficking of women has nexus in Queens borough of New York City
Global Politics
Protecting children from sex trafficking continues to be elusive goal
Conflict & Justice
For Counter-Trafficking Expert Matt Friedman, Sex-Trafficking is Slavery
Conflict & Justice
The Trafficking of Girls in India
Investigating the Underground Trade of Human Trafficking
Conflict & Justice
Russian Parliament Passes Measure Banning Americans from Adopting Russian Children
Business, Economics and Jobs
The Best and Worst Countries on Global Slavery List
Nicholas Kristof on Fighting Child Sex Trafficking
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Angry Brides’ Game Targets India’s Dowry Problem
Conflict & Justice
US State Dept. Speaks Out on Sex Trafficking in Japan
Global Politics
Filipino Workers in Japan: Economic Migrants or Victims of Sex Trafficking?
Conflict & Justice
Professionalizing the US — Mexico Human Smuggling Trade
Kathy Bolkovac and Larysa Kondracki on ‘The Whistleblower’
Stopping Human Trafficking on the Home Front
Conflict & Justice
When Human Rights Workers Cross The Line
Business, Economics and Jobs
Investigating nail salons as cover for sex and labor trafficking
Lifestyle & Belief
A disturbing practice re-emerges in Afghanistan
Conflict & Justice
In Arizona, ICE raids target human smugglers
Global Politics
Remembering Cuba’s role in the slave trade
Lifestyle & Belief
American children victims of human trafficking
Environment
8 of 10 Haiti missionaries charged with kidnapping return to US
Lifestyle & Belief
International adoption or child trafficking?
Conflict & Justice
Stopping Human Trafficking, One Slave at a Time
Global Politics
The ordeal of Ukrainian Nazi slave laborers
Conflict & Justice
Living with South Africa’s foreign workers
Conflict & Justice
Haiti’s child slaves
Conflict & Justice
Europe’s own interrogation scandal
Conflict & Justice
China’s organ transplant scandal