Wow!: India’s bicycle warriors on a mission to save children from traffickers
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, writing for the Thomspn Reuters Foundation, reports on how a new bicycle scheme spear-headed by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi is seeing children freed from traffickers…
Traffickers seen targeting homeless people in Britain
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Homeless people are among the victims in seven per cent of all reported modern slavery cases in Britain, according to research by the anti-slavery charity Unseen released on Friday. Unseen said traffickers were “purposefully targeting homeless people for exploitation”, including making them commit crimes, most commonly through forced begging. Homeless people were […]
Indian courts speed up justice for human trafficking survivors
Thomson Reuters Foundation A series of speedy legal orders in human trafficking cases in India has raised hopes for thousands survivors facing drawn-out court battles, but experts warn that justice remains elusive for most victims. Over the past few months, courts have handed rare life sentences to traffickers, denied bail to another person facing charges, […]