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Human trafficking

August 2024

  • Ruben Balagtas, in a tank top, shorts and flipflops, leans against the concrete post of metal gates on which are hung two signs in support of "Mayor Alice Guo", with houses and trees behind him

    Cognac, tortoises and a pink-striped helicopter: inside the mystery of Alice Guo, the missing Philippines mayor

    Investigation is ongoing into the identity of Alice Guo and her links to a compound housing human trafficking victims and offshore gaming operations

July 2024

  • Spanish NGO rescues 176 irregular migrants in international waters<br>CARRARA - ITALY, OCTOBER 4 : Survived migrants wait to be disembarked from the ship who were rescued by the Spanish NGO 'Open Arms' on October 4, 2023 in Carrara, Italy. About 176 migrants of 14 different nationalities from Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan, Eritrea, Palestine, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Egypt, Chad, Senegal and Mali were rescued by 'Open Arms' who carried out 3 rescue operations at the international waters of the Central Mediterranean sea. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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  • AFP arrest Sydney man

    Sydney man charged over alleged sex trafficking of child from Indonesia

  • A view of children's feet standing in a row, some with blankets around them

    Children missing from Home Office hotels likely to have been trafficked, report finds

  • A middle-aged woman sits in a tidy kitchen and show off her passport from when she was an infant.

    Chile’s stolen children: a new effort offers hope to Pinochet-era international adoptees

June 2024

  • Glodi Wabelua. Photographed in London by David Levene 23/1/24

    The Audio Long Read
    From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people? – podcast

  • Mo Farah, crouched as if at the starting line of a race, against a gold backdrop

    Fascinating Olympians
    ‘I went a bit crazy’: Mo Farah on rebellion, love, ruthlessness – and being forced to live a lie

May 2024

  • Migrants At The US-Mexico Border In California<br>The US-Mexico border wall in Jacumba, California, US, on Friday, April 5, 2024. Last week a federal judge sharply questioned the Biden administration's position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the US-Mexico border, reported the AP. Photographer: Mark Abramson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked to California from Mexico

  • People standing next to dozens of candles with childish cutouts seen hanging from string

    Rights and freedom
    Hundreds of potentially trafficked children ‘abandoned by Home Office’

  • A woman breaking sandstone in Rajasthan, India. Photograph: Romita Saluja

    The Audio Long Read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet - podcast

  • people holding phones

    US asylum app strands migrants and aids organised crime, rights group says

April 2024

  • Sean and Emily with their birth mother, Sara, outside her house in Santiago, Chile

    She was told her babies were dead. Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on?

  • Glodi Wabelua. Photographed in London by David Levene 23/1/24

    The long read
    From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?

March 2024

  • a child dragging a basket of stones at a construction site in India

    The long read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet

  • Antonio Salazar-Hobson at Buena Vista Park in San Francisco, California.

    How we survive
    At four, I was kidnapped and sex-trafficked for years. Now I fight for the powerless – and win every case

  • Lines of south Asian men under lights clutching papers

    Rights and freedom
    Sexual exploitation drives 37% rise in profits from forced labour, ILO says

  • Rohingya men, women and children walk ashore through the water from an overloaded boat

    Rights and freedom
    Death, abuse and torture: traffickers hold fleeing Rohingya to ransom for up to £3,000 a time

February 2024

  • Rescuers search for survivors of the shipwreck off the coast of Italy in February 2023.

    Italian court jails people smuggler over shipwreck that killed at least 94 migrants

    Gun Ufuk, 29, sentenced to 20 years in prison over deadly sinking that occurred metres from shore

January 2024

  • Former British PM Theresa May

    Theresa May to confront Home Office over ‘appalling’ secret policy on trafficking victims

  • Suella Braverman

    Home Office U-turns on policy to restrict help for trafficking victims

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