Oct 11 WATCH: Trump to speak about human trafficking By Associated Press President Donald Trump will deliver remarks Thursday at the annual meeting of the interagency task force to monitor and combat human trafficking. Watch live here. Continue reading
Jul 24 How this human trafficking survivor gives women a future at home By Layla Quran In the southwestern Cameroonian city of Kumba, Francisca Awah Mbuli and her team walk door-to-door, warning young women about trusting community members who promise them highly paid jobs abroad -- a scheme of human traffickers. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch 8:40 Pimps and traffickers prey on vulnerable Rohingya girls By Tania Rashid Since the majority of Rohingya refugees are women and girls, many of whom are poor and without a male breadwinner, they are vulnerable to traffickers looking to make fast money in the Bangladeshi sex trade. Special correspondent Tania Rashid and… Continue watching
Oct 17 'How do I know she's being forced?': New exhibit reveals the dark underbelly of human trafficking By Elizabeth Flock The startling exhibit in Washington D.C. reveals how labor and sex trafficking is alive and well in the U.S. and around the world. Continue reading
Aug 17 5 important stories you might have overlooked By Joshua Barajas, Erica R. Hendry, Iman Smith As fallout from Saturday's rally in Charlottesville continues, here are five important stories you may have overlooked. Continue reading
Jul 29 Data science can help us fight human trafficking By Renata Konrad and Andrew C. Trapp, The Conversation Human trafficking occurs in every country in the world, generating an estimated U.S. $150 billion annually in illegal profits. There is an opportunity to use the bits of information we can get on the distribution of victims, traffickers, buyers and… Continue reading
Jul 23 9 dead, dozens more found in hot truck as authorities investigate human smuggling By Kamala Kelkar Police found NINE people dead and dozens more wounded from extreme heat in the back of a tractor-trailer outside a San Antonio Walmart on Saturday night in what authorities are investigating as a case of human smuggling. Continue reading
Jun 27 WATCH: Rex Tillerson, Ivanka Trump unveil annual human trafficking report By Josh Lederman, Associated Press The United States asserted Tuesday that Myanmar is no longer one of the world's worst offenders on human trafficking, while removing both Myanmar and Iraq from a list of countries that use child soldiers. Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch 8:25 How human traffickers trap women into domestic servitude By PBS News Hour More than three million women are forced into servitude as domestic workers every year, often lured to other countries in the Persian Gulf or Middle East under false pretenses. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on ways some advocates… Continue watching
Jun 30 U.S. takes Thailand off human trafficking blacklist By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press The U.S. has removed Thailand from its human trafficking blacklist, though forced labor is still widespread in the nation's lucrative seafood industry. Continue reading