Human trafficking is on the increase in Asian countries. Women and children are the most vulnerable to become the victims of trafficking. They are trafficked for the purpose of commercial sex, domestidoi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5218-8_9R. Thilagaraj...
Human Trafficking in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region DISAM Journal of International Security Assistance ManagementCollins, Hannah
About 60 suspected human trafficking victims had been smuggled across the border "with the promise that they would have a good-paying job and a place to stay," officials said. Jul 27, 2023 More than 1,000 trafficking victims rescued in Southeast Asia ...
The trafficking scheme Human traffickers often create transnational routes for transporting migrants who are driven by unfavourable living conditions to seek the services of a smuggler. Human trafficking usually starts in origin countries—namely,Southeast Asia, easternEurope, and sub-SaharanAfrica—where ...
Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the micro-pro...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of trafficking victims fell as travel restrictions made human trafficking more difficult, but were back at pre-pandemic levels in 2022. However, trafficking in persons is an illegal practice that is shaded in secrecy, and it is therefore nearly impossible ...
Human Trafficking&Modern-day Slavery Around the world, millions of people are living in bondage. They labor in fields and factories under brutal employers who threaten them with violence if they try to escape. They work in homes for families that keep them virtually imprisoned. They are forced ...
Arthur Ball, Managing Director, Asia, Public Safety and National Security, Microsoft, will be participating at the Regional Conference on ICT to Combat Human Trafficking in Bangkok, Thailand on 23 June. The event agenda can be found here. The exploitation of human trafficking can take the form ...
Ford, Michele, Lenore Lyons and Willem van Schendel. Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming.Ford, M., L . Lyons and W. van Schendel (eds). 2012. Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: ...