Tagged: human trafficking
Despite the closure and militarization of many of Europe’s borders, hundreds of refugees continue to enter using transnational smuggling networks in the Balkans. Reporter Andrew Connelly has more from the Serbian capital Belgrade. Download...
Europe’s refugee crisis continues unabated. Now the European Union’s central police agency, Europol, says that thousands of refugee children are unaccounted for. Jacob Resneck reports. Download Audio Out of the more than a million...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill held a hearing today, and threatened to subpoena internal State Department communications to determine if administration officials placed trade policy above human rights on this year’s human trafficking report. FSRN’s...
Human traffickers often target job seekers in underdeveloped countries willing to migrate for work and use force, fraud or coercion to hold victims in conditions of debt servitude or slavery. A common scheme is...
Federal authorities are taking steps to regulate the sex trade under the banner of a nationwide effort to prevent human trafficking. From freezing sex workers’ bank accounts to shutting down adult advertising sites, a...
By Robin Dianoux 6,604: This statistic, according to the Argentine Bureau for the Rescue and Accompaniment of Trafficking Victims, represents the number of people that the six-year-old government agency has “saved” as of April...
Eritreans fleeing human rights abuses in their homeland are routinely kidnapped by human traffickers as they cross into eastern Sudan, bound for Israel. In a new report out Tuesday, Human Rights Watch says the...