Desperate Venezuelan migrants fall prey to sex slavery in Colombia
Thomson Reuters Foundation Trapped and held captive in basements and bars across Colombia, growing numbers of Venezuelan women are falling prey to sex trafficking rings as mass migration from Venezuela to neighbouring Colombia shows no signs of abating, campaigners and prosecutors said. Destitute migrants fleeing Venezuela’s economic collapse and medicine shortages are being targeted by […]
Australian Christian Lobby backs anti-slavery commissioner proposal
The Australian Christian Lobby has backed suggestions Australia appoint an “anti-slavery commissioner”. ACL spokesperson Wendy Francis said the concept – aired by anti-slavery expert Professor Jennifer Burn on SBS’s Insight program – was badly needed to stop the trafficking of girls into Australian brothels, noting that human trafficking, of which sex trafficking is an aspect, […]