Essay: Mo Farah – here’s why it is so difficult for trafficking victims to disclose their experiences
PATRICIA HYNES, professor of social justice at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at the factors that discourage human trafficking victims from coming forward…
Families fret over fate of migrants trapped in Texas truck
Oaxaca City, Mexico Reuters Before he began the journey that ended in disaster, Jose Luis Vasquez lived in a remote mountainous community in southern Mexico, where a single telephone connects a few Indigenous families to the outside world, local residents said. Now the 31-year-old is in a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, after becoming severely […]
EU sees high risk of child trafficking as 3.3 million Ukrainians flee to Europe
Reuters The European Union’s migration commissioner warned on Monday that Ukrainian children were in danger of being trafficked as they flee their country from the Russian invasion. Ylva Johansson told a news conference in Estonia that about half of 3.3 million Ukrainians who had fled to EU countries since the start of the war were […]
Pope says “slaughters and atrocities” committed daily in Ukraine
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis, continuing his implicit criticism of Russia, called the conflict in Ukraine an unjustified “senseless massacre” and urged leaders to stop “this repugnant war”. “The violent aggression against Ukraine is unfortunately not slowing down,” he told about 30,000 people in St Peter’s Square for his weekly Sunday address and blessing. “It is […]
Fleeing Afghanistan: Smugglers hike prices, expand networks after Taliban takeover
EMMA BATHA and BAHAAR JOYA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report that people smugglers are more than doubling fees for some routes as they cash in on an exodus fleeing the Taliban…
Essay: In Afghanistan, heroin and human trafficking are the only two sectors of the economy still thriving
UK researchers JONATHAN GOODHAND and JAN KOEHLER look – in an article first published on The Conversation – look at why the trade in people and drugs is growing in importance in Afghanistan…
Postcards: With Assam silk and trees, Indians fight climate change and trafficking
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on an initiative to help small scale weavers in India’s north-east…
EU sets out five-year crime cooperation, anti-trafficking plans
Brussels, BelgiumReuters The European Union will seek to increase police cooperation, target human trafficking and establish new rules to counter money laundering, according to plans detailed by the European Commission on Wednesday. The EU executive set out a five-year roadmap of legislative proposals and initiatives designed to combat organised criminal gangs, who have increasingly gone […]
Traffickers seen thriving in Europe as COVID-19 hits victim support
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Human traffickers across Europe have taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to exploit more vulnerable people, while efforts to bring them to justice and support their victims have been disrupted, a European human rights body said on Friday. COVID-19 restrictions and the economic fallout have worsened the outlook for victims of […]
Europe’s rights court orders UK to compensate human trafficking victims
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Britain should pay €90,000 in compensation to two Vietnamese men who were convicted of drug crimes despite signs they had been trafficked as children and forced to work on cannabis farms, Europe’s top rights court ruled on Tuesday. The European Court of Human Rights said Britain had failed to protect potential […]