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Africa

Human Trafficking in the Sinai: The Price of a Human Life

”Listen, you have one and a half hours to get the money and meet me, that’s your last chance or you can forget the whole thing.” Meron Estefanos, Swedish-Eritrean journalist and human rights activist, who received this me...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Europe
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Does Legalising Prostitution Help Fight Human Trafficking?

Lucy is a 22-year old girl with a two-year old son. She worked as a webcam-girl in her home country Romania, despite having obtained a diploma in architecture. Two years ago she moved to The Netherlands, where she became one of...
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Human Rights

To Address Trafficking From Nigeria We Need To Work Together To Confront Domestic Violence

Research carried out in partnership by Nigerian and UK organisations shows that anti-trafficking policy needs to address factors that make women vulnerable to exploitation. Beatrice grew up in the south of Nigeria. She was coer...
by Jenny Pennington
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Europe

WATCH: Stop The Traffik In The Red Light District

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, human trafficking has become “the fastest growing means by which people are enslaved, the fastest growing international crime, and one of the largest sources of income for or...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Human Rights

WATCH: What Happens to Children After They’ve Been Rescued From Human Trafficking?

The international trade in children is perhaps the darkest aspect to human trafficking. According to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, “children are trafficked for forced labour, domestic wo...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Trafficking: I’m Not Liam Neeson, What Can I Do?

One of the manliest quotes from a movie has to be Liam Neeson in the thriller ‘Taken’. His daughter kidnapped by human traffickers, he fearlessly says to them, “I have a specific set of skills… skills that make me a...
by AJ Kingsley
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Asia

Bought Brides: A Challenge To China’s Immigration Policy?

The huge flow of internal migrants in China is well-known and has been thoroughly reported on by observers of Chinese society (see this FAR article). Although less sizeable, another kind of migration is creeping up on the Part...
by Erik Svanberg
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Human Rights

Modern Day Slavery: The Sex Trafficking Industry

Sex Trafficking is a subject that has received a huge amount of coverage over the past year or two, and is quickly becoming a ‘hot’ topic for discussion. This illegal trade of men, women and children for sex is second faste...
by Rebecca Collier
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Asia
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WATCH: Strong to the Finish for Mongolia’s Children

Cut off by sharp mountains and the sweeping Gobi desert to the south Mongolia is an adventurers dream. The harsh yet mesmerising landscape and rich culture makes it one of the last places on earth that is a true test to the ski...
by Nicky Armstrong
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