Combatting rising human trafficking
Migrant smuggling is a deadly business operated by groups that seek to profit from thousands of people, without any respect for their rights and dignity. For example, the migrant flow…
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…
Exit democracy
WHILE Pakistan clings to fantasies of hybridity regarding its political framework, the Economist Intelligence Unit has categorised it as an authoritarian regime. The EIU’s latest Democracy Index ranks Pakistan 124…
Accelerating action
‘Accelerate Action’ is the theme of International Women's Day 2025, emphasizing the urgency of achieving gender equality. This theme calls for greater participation, increased resource allocation and the development of…
Tragedy at sea
In another tragic incident of a boat sinking off near the coast of Libya, at least 16 Pakistani citizens have lost their lives while trying to illegally reach Europe by…
Goods and peoples: Trump’s opposition to free movement
Free movement of goods and peoples benefits all countries as it allows scarcity of products and skills to be met at the cheapest possible price - a global mantra taken…
The buck stops nowhere
Nearly 3000 years ago, famed jurist and scholar Cicero coined the maxim “Salus populi suprema lex esto” – let the welfare of the people be the supreme law. For centuries,…
