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…
Electoral human trafficking
Human trafficking is a heinous crime. This is buying and selling of humans for illicit purposes of slavery or prostitution, etc. The United Nations has classified it as serious violation…
Laws, protocols and trafficking
Every country in the world is affected by human trafficking either as a point of origin, transit or destination, and Pakistan is not an exception. The UNODC describes human trafficking…
The human cost
Here’s a story from Transparency International (TI), the ‘global coalition against corruption’, “This nine-year-old girl is one of them. She lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh-one of 114 countries that scores below…
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…
Unchecked power in a university
What happens when you put a man in charge of a university, grant him virtually unchecked power over staff and faculty who in turn have unchecked power over students, vest…
The price of a dream
The UNODC defines human trafficking as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.” The recent…
Silent victims
Besides the challenges of economic and political uncertainty, Pakistan has another crisis to deal with – human trafficking. As the country grapples with one challenge after another, its vulnerable citizens…
A tale of two disasters
First, I have to make this confession that I am unable to bring together my thoughts on the two marine tragedies that relate to Pakistan in a strangely ominous linkage,…
