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On May 19, 2023, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan passed amendments to the Human Trafficking Prevention Act (人口販運防制法) which aim at tightening punishments for human trafficking and attempted human trafficking. Main points of the amendments are as follows: 1. Sexual Exploitation: Those who use such means of debt bondage or another person’s inability, ignorance, or helplessness to…
AMMAN — Thirty-four human trafficking cases involving 131 victims and 152 perpetrators were registered in Jordan in 2022, according to a report issued by the Labour Ministry. The report showed that 181 potential victims of human trafficking were housed in shelter centres in 2022. Moreover, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit at the Public Security Directorate (PSD)…
SAAIM AHMAD – Human trafficking has emerged as a grave issue of concern in modern times at both national as well as global levels. The developing world, including Pakistan, has been a soft target of this menace since long owing to various socio-economic and geographical circumstances. The main culprits of this heinous crime are criminal…
A Lao couple who hired young women to work as waitresses and later tried to coerce them into having sex with customers have been sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 100 million kip ($6,500) each, authorities said, in a rare case in which traffickers in the country have faced significant punishment for their…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons received 5,275 calls reporting human trafficking-related cases nationwide from September 2021 to August 2022. The agency also said it secured 36 convictions in nine months. It noted that its partnership with the social media giant, Facebook, in September 2021 opened a new conduit that received…
A mob assaulted four Hindu saints, on suspicion of being child lifters in Maharashtra’s Sangli district. The incident’s video has since gone viral on social media. Sangli police have said that the Sadhus have not lodged a formal complaint yet. Maharashtra | On reports of 4 saints being attacked by villagers in Sangli on suspicion…
KAZAKHSTAN: TIER 2 The Government of Kazakhstan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, if any, on its anti-trafficking capacity; therefore Kazakhstan remained…
Terry FitzPatrick WASHINGTON – The 2022 U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which reviews responses by governments to combat human trafficking and forced labor worldwide, reveals that significant increases in political will and funding are needed to meaningfully improve global efforts to end forced labor and sex trafficking. The 2022 report chronicles…
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