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Sex trafficking

August 2023

  • Illustrative graphic showing silhouette of a young woman's face with images of police, courts and a woman with her head in her hands superimposed within

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: Trafficked: the operation – part three

  • Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Rex/Shutterstock

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: Trafficked: the closed door – part two

  • Composite illustration showing a map, a gun and the silhouetted figure of a ma. Credit: the Guardian

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: Trafficked: the trap – part one

  • Jim Caviezel (right) as Tim Ballard in Sound of Freedom

    ‘The film the woke Nazis don’t want you to see!’ How the culture wars made Sound of Freedom a blockbuster

July 2023

  • BRITAIN-POLITICS<br>A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman speaking to members of Parliament during a statement and updates on the Illegal Migration Bill in the House of Commons, in London, on June 5, 2023. (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / Jessica Taylor /UK Parliament" (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images)

    My trafficker is behind bars, but if the UK’s new migration bill passes, my story would have ended very differently

    Anonymous
  • Hand holds a smartphone displaying an image of a woman in stilettos

    UK police accused by MPs of ‘cosying up’ to ‘pimping websites’

June 2023

  • A rescued woman in Sundarbans stands on the remnants of her cyclone-wrecked house.

    ‘I trusted him’: human trafficking surges in cyclone-hit east India

    Poverty-stricken women and girls are being tricked and abducted in West Bengal
  • On the ground
    The hunt for India's stolen children – video

    The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest, but repeated natural disasters and environmental changes to the region have created a highly vulnerable population increasingly at risk of participating in or becoming victims of child trafficking.
  • Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Sues JPMorgan Chase<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 26: The JPMorgan Chase headquarters building is seen on May 26, 2023 in New York City. JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon is set to be deposed under oath for two civil lawsuits that claim that the bank ignored warnings that Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking teenage girls for sex while profiting from his relationship with him. The lawsuits were filed in federal court late last year by lawyers representing Epstein's victims and the other by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Epstein died by suicide three years ago while in federal custody on sex trafficking charges. The bank states that he was dropped as a client decades ago. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

    JPMorgan Chase reaches settlement with victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse

    Lawsuit claims that officials at the bank ignored warning signs about Epstein’s abuse because he was a wealthy client

May 2023

  • Illustration: Andrea Ucini/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking – podcast

  • FILES-US-POLITICS-HEALTH-VIRUS-CHOMSKY<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 20, 2018 US linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky (R), is pictured during a press conference after visiting former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, arrested for corruption in the Federal Police Superintendence in Curitiba, Brazil. - The United States is on a chaotic path with no federal plan against the coronavirus pandemic as it reduces public health funding and ignores the advances of climate change, according to activist scholar Noam Chomsky, considered the founder of modern linguistics. (Photo by Heuler Andrey / AFP) (Photo by HEULER ANDREY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Noam Chomsky and Bard College president had financial dealings with Jeffrey Epstein

April 2023

  • illustration: a smartphone with a facebook logo on its screen forming an opening door with a shaft of light coming through the gap

    The long read
    How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

  • Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman.

    The Guardian view on Sunak’s grooming crackdown: blunt tools will do more harm than good

  • Rishi Sunak during a visit to the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, last week.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak refuses to back Braverman’s widely criticised claim about racial nature of grooming gangs – as it happened

  • Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman with police officers

    Rishi Sunak says grooming gang crackdown will defy ‘political correctness’

March 2023

  • A refugee fleeing from Ukraine  at Berlin's central station

    Ukrainian refugees increasingly targeted for sexual exploitation, research finds

    Exclusive: Analysis of global search engine traffic reveals growing interest in Ukrainian pornography since Russian invasion
  • Illustrative graphic showing silhouette of a young woman's face with a tank, soldiers and a mother and daughter embracing within

    Today in Focus
    Trafficked: Marta – part four

    The story of a Ukrainian woman who escaped modern slavery in the UK. Annie Kelly reports
    • Today in Focus
      Trafficked: the operation – part three

    • Today in Focus
      Trafficked: the closed door – part two

    • Today in Focus
      Trafficked: the trap – part one

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