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60% of smuggled children forced into sex trade: NGO president
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60% of smuggled children forced into sex trade: NGO president

PETALING JAYA: As of this year, Malaysia has been upgraded to the Tier 2 Watchlist in the US State Department Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, after making significant efforts to stem human trafficking. “The government identified 180 confirmed trafficking victims – 36 exploited in sex trafficking and 144 exploited in forced labour – among 510…

36 Days of Type: Indian Laws That Shaped Our Lives
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36 Days of Type: Indian Laws That Shaped Our Lives

For #36DaysOfType, The Swaddle’s Denise D’Souza illustrated the A-Z of Indian laws that have impacted Indians in unforeseen ways. ⁠ The Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA) grants the military the ability to maintain public order in ‘disturbed areas,’ through wide powers of arrest, the right to shoot to kill, and to occupy or…

Shamima Begum, terrorist or victim: As the UK hears her case, here's her story – MSN
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Shamima Begum, terrorist or victim: As the UK hears her case, here's her story – MSN

Shamima Begum, a Britain-born individual who had made her way to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) when she was 15 in 2015, is currently fighting a legal case in the United Kingdom to challenge the removal of her British citizenship in 2019. Shamima and two of her friends, Amira Abase and Khadiza Sultana…

Victims of human trafficking deserve justice
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Victims of human trafficking deserve justice

A new assessment of the state of human trafficking cases in Bangladesh has once again highlighted concerns about the optics of efforts vs. meaningful interventions to prevent such crimes in the country. According to a report by Prothom Alo on November 27, which quoted “updated information” from the Police Headquarters, a total of 7,517 cases have been…

Human trafficking cases: Only 1.5pc see conviction
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Human trafficking cases: Only 1.5pc see conviction

Seven years ago, Mohammad Sabuj and his neighbour Mohiuddin Sarkar from Cumilla’s Daudkandi paid around Tk 13 lakh to six people who lured them with well-paying jobs in Germany. In February 2015, the six traffickers sent the two to India, assuring them that getting the German visa would be easier there. But Sabuj and Sarkar…

Child Marriage: Jharkhand tops the list of child marriages, in Bengal 55% of girls are married before attaining the age of 21 years
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Child Marriage: Jharkhand tops the list of child marriages, in Bengal 55% of girls are married before attaining the age of 21 years

New Delhi: Marriage before a certain age is a crime in the eyes of the law. For this, the minimum age of marriage for boys and girls has been fixed. But in different parts of the country girls are married before a certain age. In many cases, girls are married as minors. What is the…

President gives assent to Haryana law declaring child marriages void – Tribune India
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President gives assent to Haryana law declaring child marriages void – Tribune India

PTI New Delhi, September 27 President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to a legislation of Haryana under which every child marriage that has been solemnised will be considered as “void ab initio” (having no legal effect from inception), thus making a marital relationship between a man and a girl aged between 15 and 18…

Warning message on ‘organ-trafficking gangs’ is fake, Malaysian police say
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Warning message on ‘organ-trafficking gangs’ is fake, Malaysian police say

Social media posts claiming to spread an “urgent notice” from the Malaysian Home Ministry and the police about organ-trafficking gangs that use street children to lure victims have circulated widely in the country. The claim has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook. However, the claim is false. The Malaysian police, a division under the…