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Executive summary Seizing the attention and sympathy of the international community in 2017, Rohingya refugees, forced by genocidal military operations to leave their homeland, are one of the world’s largest stateless populations. About one million Rohingya refugees now live in a number of camps in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, where their living conditions are in…
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Women Workers Rights and Human Trafficking Assistant Deputy at the Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry Priyadi Santosa urged village officials to intensify dissemination on human trafficking. This understanding on human trafficking is important due to high urbanization that is not followed by adequate knowledge among those arriving. This condition causes many…
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,…
Myanmar police have arrested 12 suspected members of a human trafficking gang linked to the deaths of 13 Rohingyas, the military said. Police raided a compound in Hlegu town near the commercial hub Yangon on December 9, seizing five vehicles and an oil tanker used in the trafficking, the junta said on Tuesday. The gang…
Indonesian police said the suspects – aged 14 and 17 – attempted to sell the 10-year-old victim’s organs on an online marketplace The teens were allegedly lured into the crime by a foreign-based website that promised hefty amounts for peddlers selling human organs on its platform Indonesian police have arrested two teenagers for allegedly kidnapping…
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…
Muhammad Taher knew he was risking his life when he decided to leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh and board a decrepit-looking boat to Indonesia, but the father-of-four was desperate to work. He almost didn’t make it. A week after the boat carrying more than 180 people set off, its engine broke down. Those…
Apriadi Gunawan (The Jakarta Post) Medan ● Tue, December 27, 2022 2022-12-27 Tanjung Balai Police in North Sumatra arrested on Monday a suspected human trafficker attempting to smuggle 28 Rohingya refugees to Malaysia. The local water police unit arrested the 50-year-old suspect, identified only by the initials KU, on the Asahan River in…
Upon surveying civil society organizations across Southeast Asia, Free the Slaves has published a report, ‘Learning from NGOs’ Approaches to Modern Slavery in Southeast Asia’. Groups working to counter modern slavery in this region and beyond can learn from FTS’s data-driven recommendations. Over 60 organizations responded to FTS’s online survey, leading to the key findings…
Singapore: Australia will on Wednesday complete a deal with Thailand to counter human trafficking as the Albanese government confronts disturbing revelations of sexual exploitation of migrants by a criminal operation on Australian soil. In Bangkok for the latest leg of her south-east Asian charm offensive, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong will sign off on Australia’s…
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