President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that his labour secretary nominee Julie Su is a real leader who has supported unions, enforced worker safety and protected the victims of human trafficking.
Taking suo motu cognizance of a media report that Berhampur railway station in Odisha’s Ganjam district has turned into a major transit point for human trafficking from Bihar to Andhra Pradesh, the NHRC has issued notices...
The victims were brought from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Assam besides from Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Russia, they said.
The police teams tracked CCTV camera footage and rounded up four accused of a gang involved in human trafficking.
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, along with two other Romanian suspects were arrested by the police from their luxury villa in Bucharest on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group.
A media report claimed that girls and women are sold in Rajasthan with the backing of caste panchayats to settle debt of families.
Speaking on the occasion of the 74th Foundation Day of Village Defence Organisation, Singh also underscored the need to fight against social evils like child marriage, drugs abuse and human trafficking.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday suspended the jail term of Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi, who was convicted by a Patiala court in a 2003 human trafficking case.
“It is my purpose to fix broken adults and damaged children,” says Somy Ali, the yesteryear actress who recently made a comeback with a docu-series. She...
According to the data, most of the trafficked people were for forced labour, while a few of them were for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude and petty...
Assam: Schools have been damaged, books and learning material are destroyed by water, fear of being preyed upon by human traffickers is lurking, coupled with...
The Kerala government with the Centre's help has introduced a strict monitoring system to keep human trafficking at bay.
Those in the trailer were part of a presumed migrant smuggling attempt into the United States, and the investigation was being led by U.S. Homeland Security...
China: Footage taken from outside the restaurant also showed the attackers dragging the woman who had initially rebuffed the man's advances out of the...
A total of 40 children were rescued by Assam police during a month-long operation whom Jogi lured with the promise of money and education. All of them were...
The process through which ordinary helpless women and children are drawn into this horrendous organized crime world-over, more prominently in poor countries...
As of June 3, the U.N. human rights office had received 124 allegations of conflict-related sexual violence — 97 of them involving women and girls, 19...
While voluntary sex work is legal, running a brothel is illegal in India, as per existing laws covering sex work and human trafficking.
Increased poverty because of Covid-19 is a big reason for children to go missing or become victims of trafficking, said an expert.
A 2019 raid rescuing 141 girls held behind trap doors and steel cages raised a poignant question—how long will art continue imitating life?
The six Indians, ranging from ages 19 to 21-years-old, have been charged with Improper Entry by Alien in violation of US law.
The Aadhaar cards of some of the victims were allegedly forged, said the officials.
For nearly four decades, Priti Patkar has been working with trafficked women in the sex trade and their children in Mumbai’s red-light area, Kamathipura.
A trafficker, identified as Suman Billung, was taking the girl to Delhi on the pretext of providing her job, they said.
The woman rescued from the gang is a 23-year-old widow of Bahraich, said the SSP, adding she was handed over to her family members.
