Trapped in dying tea gardens, workers lose children to traffickers
Fagua Ooraon was running late for work when traffickers stopped outside his hut and said they were taking his teenage daughter with them to the city for better employment. Ooraon…
Trailing the traffickers, UK police in new role rescuing slaves
Inside one of Britain's biggest special anti-trafficking operations, police officers surrounded by files, forms and photographs attempt to unravel a complex network of crime. On a whiteboard, the faces of…
Of smugglers and kingpins: Southeast Asia’s big money trade in humans
Around $1,100 should have secured passage for each of the Rohingya migrants who were found adrift in the Andaman Sea - victims of a dark trade in humans that pivots…
Of human bondage
The US State Department released the ‘Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, 2013 on June 19. The report has been regularly issued every year since 2001. It grades different countries of…
Was it really worth the price?
Today I was once again reminded of the horrible tragedy in the Mediterranean where eight years ago the two-year-old Syrian Alan Kurdi trying to escape from the brutality of war…
Trump faces unfamiliar jolt in US govt shutdown row: losing
Donald Trump loves to make the pistol gesture when pronouncing his "You're fired" catchphrase. But in the tussle with Democrats over the longest US government shutdown in history, the legendary…
Illicit financial flows in the region
A recent study (November 24, 2017) provides an assessment of routes, actors and sources of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and corruption in and between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal,…
Illicit financial flows in the region
A recent study (November 24, 2017) provides an assessment of routes, actors and sources of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and corruption in and between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal,…
New forms of modern slavery
While the world’s nations seemingly outlawed slavery and servitude under the UDHR in 1948, it not only exists today but also generates an annual profit of $150 billion, as estimated…
Passport blues
Have children, will travel. This appears to be the credo of underprivileged people across the world and through the ages. World history is punctuated by waves of migration due to…
