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'Wife wanted: Good salary' — Radio Free Asia
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'Wife wanted: Good salary' — Radio Free Asia

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Laotians are worried that a recent string of “wife wanted” ads on social media – offering payments of thousands of dollars per month – will lure young women into human trafficking operations where they will be abused and forced to work like slaves. “Lao wife wanted; good salary: 100 million kip [nearly U.S. $6,000] per…

Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle: Chapter 4 — Human Trafficking
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Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle: Chapter 4 — Human Trafficking

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Table of Contents | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 Illustration: Nodjadong Boonprasert for GIJN The networks that smuggle people through the Golden Triangle are essentially the same as those that trade in drugs. The reason is simple: only those gangs know the routes and have the…

Lao couple sentenced to 15 years in prison for human trafficking – Radio Free Asia
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Lao couple sentenced to 15 years in prison for human trafficking – Radio Free Asia

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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…

Heroes in the worldwide fight against human trafficking – US Embassy in Georgia
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Heroes in the worldwide fight against human trafficking – US Embassy in Georgia

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A volunteer with the humanitarian group Save the Children sits next to a banner at the Romanian-Ukrainian border in Siret, Romania, on March 7. (© Andreea Alexandru/AP Images) Human traffickers continued to exploit vulnerable and marginalized communities in 2021 and 2022, according to the latest U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report, released July 19….