Feb 22 Watch 6:54 Labor secretary under fire as disturbing Epstein details continue to emerge A federal judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors led by current Labor Secretary Alex Acosta broke the law when he was U.S. attorney in Florida. Acosta's team allegedly concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been… Continue watching
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
Apr 26 Inside the Bangladesh brothels where Rohingya girls are suffering By Tania Rashid “My friend said, ‘Why don’t you run away from the camps? I know people who can help you. Do you want work in a garment factory?’ I said yes.” Little did she know, her “friend” was a Rohingya trafficker. Continue reading
Dec 29 Sex traffickers target poor communities in India. This group aims to stop them By Larisa Epatko “Economic freedom doesn’t actually mean that much if you’re in a highly abusive situation,” said Elca Grobler of My Choices Foundation in India. Continue reading
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
Sep 30 Watch 10:34 Sex trafficking of African migrants in Europe is a ‘modern plague’ By PBS News Hour African women seeking a better life in Europe face a long, perilous, often fatal journey across the Mediterranean. But when they do arrive, they confront yet another threatening prospect: conscription into sex slavery. Eighty percent of all Nigerian women who… Continue watching
Mar 23 Watch 8:21 In the Philippines, sex trafficking of young girls moves online By PBS News Hour Sex tourism has long been a scourge in the Philippines. But now there's a disturbing new trend in the trafficking of mostly young women and children: vulnerable victims are being lured online and tricked into the trade. Special correspondent Fred… Continue watching
Dec 28 South Korea, Japan reach breakthrough settlement on WWII sex slaves By Yena Oh South Korea and Japan reached a breakthrough settlement of $8.3 million to resolve a decades-long dispute regarding Korean women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Continue reading
Jul 27 ‘I was a slave’: Nigerian women escape sexual bondage in Italy By Jason Berry, The GroundTruth Project CASERTA, Italy — She is 32 and demure, with a poise that belies the image of a woman who was enslaved for five years in a Nigerian prostitution ring on the outskirts of Naples, the raffish Mediterranean port city 22… Continue reading
Apr 21 Obama attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch heads for vote after 5 months By Erica Werner, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Key senators say they're close to a deal on a bill to help sex-trafficking victims, potentially clearing the way for a vote to confirm President Barack Obama's attorney general. Continue reading