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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines – A human trafficking syndicate drugged its victims, including children, to make them endure poor living and working conditions on an island in Pangutaran town, Sulu province, the Naval Forces in Western Mindanao said on Thursday, September 21. Authorities learned about this when they rescued 128 people, including 22 minors, on Tubalubac…
This piece was jointly submitted with Women’s Peace Network to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons in response to their call for inputs. For decades, as an ethnic minority group, the Rohingya people have faced discrimination, oppression, and persecution in Myanmar. Stripped from their access to property, citizenship, and other basic rights,…
December 29, 2022 JAKARTA – The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has commended Indonesia for rescuing hundreds of Rohingya refugees who were stranded at sea for weeks and called on other nations in the region to do their part to address the fresh boat crisis. “Indonesia has helped to save [more than 400] people in…
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, Europe, Africa, and the Americas exchanged enslaved people through the Atlantic Slave Trade. This trade exploited the labor of more than 10 million people. In 1957, the United Nations (UN) abolished slavery in all its forms, including indentured servitude and the slave trade. Yet, human trafficking has become a…
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR), Puan Maharani, has urged the government to form a task force to prevent cases of sexual violence at state institutions. Her request was made in response to the case of alleged sexual violence experienced by a contract-based worker at a ministry. “Anyone who commits sexual violence…
BANGKOK, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Cambodian authorities said raids are underway this week at suspected cybercrime compounds across the Southeast Asian country, uncovering evidence of human trafficking, illegal confinement and torture. Regional governments and human rights workers have heaped pressure on Cambodia in recent months to rein in transnational crime rackets that traffic people…
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD urged the National Police to improve cooperation with National Board for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers (BP2MI) to suppress rampant cases of human trafficking. “I urge the police to improve cooperation with the National Board for the Placement and Protection of…
Editor’s note: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ELDERLY PERSONS YOU KNOW. Their savings might be at risk. Better to be safe and get educated about these types of scams. “Pig-butchering” online scams have grown from continued poverty and corruption. And they prey on our vulnerabilities. This specific type of labor trafficking essentially creates a Ponzi…
In the first half of this year, Vietnamese and Cambodian authorities have rescued 250 people who were lured to Cambodian casinos by human traffickers. In a joint operation, authorities are continuing to bring home Vietnamese nationals. Chinese crime syndicates are believed to be behind the human trafficking operations in Cambodia that have targeted individuals from…
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