by Justice | Aug 12, 2016 | human trafficking statistics
Nearly 46 million people around the world are living as slaves, forced to work in factories, mines and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by rights group Walk Free Foundation. Read More From...
by Justice | Jul 4, 2016 | human trafficking statistics
“First we saw them on trains, then on buses, then on trucks and today we see them in rented vehicles,” said Segismundo Doguin, the Coahuila state official. This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have caught smugglers using Uber, as earlier...
by Justice | Aug 29, 2015 | human trafficking statistics
Hundreds of young people are being abused and exploited within the traveling sales industry in the US. Abusive managers use psychological manipulation, violence, sexual harassment or assault, and abandonment in unfamiliar cities to pressure victims into working harder...
by Justice | Aug 17, 2015 | human trafficking statistics
In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it...
by Justice | Aug 14, 2015 | Featured, human trafficking prevention, human trafficking solutions, human trafficking statistics
The people of Shah Porir Dwip — fishermen, shopkeepers, police officers and shadowy bosses — were all drawn in, as participants or concerned observers, to a multimillion-dollar people smuggling business that sent roots deep into this impoverished corner of Bangladesh....
by Justice | Aug 14, 2015 | human trafficking prevention, human trafficking solutions, human trafficking statistics
If the organization endorses prostitution as a human right, it won’t be supporting the women who might have no choice but to have sex for money, but rather the pimps and buyers of sex who have all the choice in the world. Is Amnesty International promoting human...