The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was a teenager when I was abducted and trafficked across the United States and into Canada. The people who exploited me used ...

At least 231 people have been detained since Monday in operations that targeted a group of Nigerians living in the country's ...

People who are sex trafficked are often branded with names and symbols. Free removal programs are helping them move on.

A terrified child sits in a dark room, bound with ropes or chains. Armed criminals guard the door. A heroic rescue team storms in just in time to free the victims and arrest the traffickers. For many ...

Key insight: Banks are gearing up to monitor transactions related to the World Cup soccer games, looking for signs of human trafficking. What's at stake: Some banks have paid multi-million dollar ...

Before Tren de Aragua became a headline in U.S. cities, it was already operating openly across South America—leveraging human trafficking as a primary revenue stream and weapon of control. In Colombia ...

In new research published today, crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis found that crypto-funded transactions for human trafficking—largely forced laborers trapped in compounds across Southeast Asia and ...

COVID-19 has meant unprecedented setbacks in the efforts to combat human trafficking. According to a September 2021 report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 31 million people have been ...

Co-authored by Asia Eaton, Ph.D., and Andrea Powell Sex trafficking is one of the most severe violations of human rights, yet it remains widely misunderstood. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act ...