China

China is a country located in East Asia. It is the world’s most populous country, with over 1.4 billion people. China has a long and rich history, and it is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations. China has a communist political system, and it is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies. China is known for its diverse culture and its many significant contributions to art, science, and technology. Some of China’s major cities include Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. China is a member of the United Nations and other international organizations, and it plays a prominent role in global affairs.

The Outlaw Ocean Podcast – listen to episode 3 now – Oceanographic Magazine
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The Outlaw Ocean Podcast – listen to episode 3 now – Oceanographic Magazine

The Outlaw Ocean podcast, created and produced by The Ocean Outlaw Project, is a seven-part weekly series that launched on September 26th, 2022 and is hosted by Pulitzer-price-winning journalist Ian Urbina. It sheds light on one of the few remaining frontiers on our planet: the world’s oceans. It looks into a gritty and lawless realm rarely…

Forget drugs. Mexican cartels make more cash trafficking PEOPLE
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Forget drugs. Mexican cartels make more cash trafficking PEOPLE

Forget drugs. Mexico’s cartels make more money trafficking PEOPLE across the border nowadays, using debt bondage to earn $13 billion from migrants’ earnings long after they enter the US, warns Texas ex-lawman Mexican gangs have undergone a ‘tectonic shift’ in operations, says Jaeson Jones Thanks to lax US border security, there’s more money to be made…

China Grove Police: Zip tied shopping cart in parking lot not related to human trafficking
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China Grove Police: Zip tied shopping cart in parking lot not related to human trafficking

CHINA GROVE, N.C. (WBTV) – A widely shared social media post claiming that a shopping cart found zip-tied to a car in a grocery store parking lot in China Grove was related to human trafficking or kidnapping is now being debunked by police. According to a press release from China Grove Police, on Friday, October…

Ministry investigating 18 complaints related to human trafficking
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Ministry investigating 18 complaints related to human trafficking

Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak told reporters that over October 2-3, the ministry received 18 complaints summated by outside individuals and organisations who are searching for 52 people thought to be somewhere in the Kingdom. The cases are possibly related to human trafficking. Civil society organisation officials said this was clear evidence Cambodia still…

India's Bonded Labour conundrum – Goa Chronicle
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India's Bonded Labour conundrum – Goa Chronicle

According to the Global Slavery Index 2018, 10 countries with the largest estimated absolute numbers of people in modern slavery include some of the world’s most populous were these 10 countries – India, China, Pakistan, North Korea, Nigeria, Iran, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, and the Philippines – account for 60 percent of…

Human trafficking: Council of Europe experts call on Luxembourg to step up efforts to identify …
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Human trafficking: Council of Europe experts call on Luxembourg to step up efforts to identify …

The Council of Europe’s expert group on human trafficking (GRETA) has urged Luxembourg to make additional efforts to identify and assist victims of trafficking, and to ensure that human trafficking cases are investigated proactively and results in effective, proportionate, and dissuasive sanctions. These are among the main proposals for action included in the third evaluation…

Third Committee – Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues | UN Press
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Third Committee – Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues | UN Press

Note: A complete summary of today’s Third Committee meetings will be available on Tuesday, 4 October. Briefing DELPHINE SCHANTZ, of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), expressed her agency’s support for Member States in their fight against drugs, corruption, terrorism and organized crime, including crimes that affect the environment, and cybercrime.  Championing…

Deaths on sea in Vietnam spark trafficking alarm – UCA News
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Deaths on sea in Vietnam spark trafficking alarm – UCA News

Cambodia urges China to do more in combatting human trafficking Updated: September 30, 2022 11:31 AM GMT The death toll from a boat that capsized at sea on the Cambodian-Vietnamese maritime border has risen to 11 after eight bodies were washed ashore on an island off the south coast, officials said. The incident has been…

Uber driver put under review after claiming he was made to harvest organs in China
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Uber driver put under review after claiming he was made to harvest organs in China

Enver Tohti holding the letter he received from Transport for London (Picture: Susannah Ireland/Metro.co.uk) A former surgeon who claims he was forced to remove organs from an executed prisoner in China was put at risk of losing his licence to drive an Uber after speaking out. Enver Tohti Bughda, from Xinjiang, was granted asylum in…

Will the West brush Ukraine biolab allegations just like the Kosovo organ trafficking?
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Will the West brush Ukraine biolab allegations just like the Kosovo organ trafficking?

By Aleksandar Pavic In crisis after crisis, Western narrative control kicks into overdrive to shift blame, whitewash culprits, or make sure inconvenient lines of questioning are never pursued Soon after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent descent on Taiwan, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, called out Nicholas Burns, America’s ambassador to China, for “keeping…