Taxi Driver

RGM Airport a human trafficking hotspot – The Standard
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RGM Airport a human trafficking hotspot – The Standard

CASES of human trafficking at Zimbabwe’s main airport are rising amid allegations that syndicates made up of security agents and political heavyweights are facilitating the illegal entry into the country for foreign nationals enroute to South Africa. Respect Gono, the Immigration Department director-general, told The Standard that the country had no “global management system” to…

Taxi driver found guilty for his role using trucks to smuggle Vietnamese migrants to the UK
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Taxi driver found guilty for his role using trucks to smuggle Vietnamese migrants to the UK

A taxi driver and another man have been convicted for their roles in a major conspiracy to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK in the back of lorries. The crossings, which happened in August and September 2020, were orchestrated by Hai Xuan Le, 33, a Vietnamese national based in Birmingham. Phone evidence produced by the…

Indictment: Restaurant Owners Smuggled Brazilians for Cheap Labor
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Indictment: Restaurant Owners Smuggled Brazilians for Cheap Labor

Editor’s note: the term “illegal” should be “undocumented,” as a person cannot be illegal. Being without documentation is a potential red flag of human trafficking, so in each case, these people may be in need of help. The sordid, sophisticated, and profitable business of illegal migration is exposed in the indictments of several people who…

Uber driver put under review after claiming he was made to harvest organs in China
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Uber driver put under review after claiming he was made to harvest organs in China

Enver Tohti holding the letter he received from Transport for London (Picture: Susannah Ireland/Metro.co.uk) A former surgeon who claims he was forced to remove organs from an executed prisoner in China was put at risk of losing his licence to drive an Uber after speaking out. Enver Tohti Bughda, from Xinjiang, was granted asylum in…

Human Trafficking on Ukraine’s Border
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Human Trafficking on Ukraine’s Border

As if Ukraine does not have enough going on, human traffickers are omnipresent on the borders between Ukraine and the West. The traffickers specialize in exploiting individuals traumatized by war. A Trained Intelligence Professional Recognizes Traffickers Last week, Stephen Komorek, CEO of API International Consulting Group, accompanied me to visit the border crossing at Medyka,…

‘We have seen many attempts of human trafficking here at the border’ – Reflections from Moldova
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‘We have seen many attempts of human trafficking here at the border’ – Reflections from Moldova

This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. Hope for Justice’s Film Producer, Gomolemo Nyakale, recently returned from a visit to Moldova where he was helping to document the situation in…

First Person: Fighting human trafficking in Malawi
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First Person: Fighting human trafficking in Malawi

I was a young, recent law graduate when I first experienced the horrors of human trafficking. It was in 1998. I was working for a human rights NGO and attending a workshop in South Africa. A taxi driver told me about two girls from my home country who worked in a bar in Johannesburg. He was very concerned about them.