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PRESS RELEASE Cambodia, 30 September 2022 BREAKING—New report estimates at least 11% of children in Cambodia were subjected to online sexual abuse and exploitation in the past year alone. Country Overview The ground-breaking Disrupting Harm in Cambodia report found that 11% of internet-using children aged 12-17 had experienced clear examples of online sexual exploitation and…
Unintended pregnancy is common among women of reproductive age in Nigeria and a substantial number end in abortion. Annually between 2015 and 2019, almost three million pregnancies were unintended. Forty eight per cent ended in abortion. Many of these abortions are unsafe and some result in serious maternal morbidity or death. The main reason for…
PRESS RELEASE Malaysia, 29 September 2022 BREAKING—New report estimates that an estimated 100,000 children were subjected to online sexual exploitation and abuse in Malaysia. Country Overview The ground-breaking Disrupting Harm in Malaysia research found that 4% of internet-using children aged 12-17 had experienced clear instances of online sexual exploitation and abuse in the year prior…
PRESS RELEASE Indonesia, 29 September 2022 BREAKING—Children in Indonesia are not reporting online child sexual exploitation and abuse. More than 80% of the frontline workers surveyed believed that the discomfort around discussing sex and the stigma from the community discourage reporting. Country Overview A new report released today by ECPAT, INTERPOL, and UNICEF Office of…
In our adversarial legal system, prosecutors and public defenders don’t often see eye to eye. But as the Manhattan district attorney and veteran attorneys for the Legal Aid Society, we agree on this: Survivors of human trafficking should not be criminalized. A 2021 state law gives judges wide discretion to free trafficking survivors from the…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WLBT) – Human trafficking is no myth, and it’s happening around the state. According to the national human trafficking hotline, hundreds of cases are reported annually, despite the case count experts thinking there are inaccuracies within the data. “Victims or survivors, we use those words interchangeably. But, they do not disclose what is…
Human trafficking, an issue affecting mainly women and girls, is deeply rooted in India. Although it is difficult to measure the exact scale of the issue due to its hidden and illegal nature, thousands of women and girls are trafficked through the country every year, according to government statistics. There are many forms of human…
Resty Kulabako, a teen from Mbarara was impregnated by a man old enough to be her father. That was after a relative whom she had gone to visit during lockdown married her off because he had got a loan from the said man. The pregnancy was not a welcome idea to her mother and sisters…
Article available here. Paper (PDF) available here. Background and objectives: Survivors of child sex trafficking (CST) experience many health and social sequelae as a result of stigma, discrimination, and barriers to health care. Our objective was to obtain a cross-cultural understanding of these barriers and to explore the relationship between stigmatization and health outcomes through…
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EFRAIN GRANADOS-CORONA, a/k/a “Chavito,” a/k/a “Cepillo,” was sentenced today to 212 months in prison in connection with trafficking three victims. Five additional defendants in this case were previously sentenced to terms of imprisonment. JULIO SAINZ-FLORES, a/k/a “Rogelio,” was sentenced on…
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