Girls in Cages
Diana Scimone - 'Girls in Cages'
“Do you see those cages in the second-floor windows?” my contact asked me. “Cages? What are they for?” I replied, certain I did not want to know. “They hold little…
Human Trafficking - Latest
Human Trafficking - Asia-Pacific
Tortured slave girl learns to smile again
Sympathy and support is pouring in for a Karen girl who was allegedly kidnapped, enslaved, tortured and scarred over half of her body by a couple in Thailand.
Meet 'Air' - Kidnapped and tortured in Thailand
'Air' is 12. Kidnapped at the age of 7 this young Karen girl was held by an abusive Thai couple as their household servant for five years in Thailand.
China cracks down on child-trafficking gangs
A national operation in China has busted nine child abduction gangs, arresting 355 suspects and rescuing 89 children.
Anti-Slavery Australia - Meeting the Team
Olivia Chan interviewed members of the team from Anti-Slavery Oz - Australia’s only specialist law and research policy centre that works towards abolishing…
Myanmar's trafficked brides fill China's shortage of women
Thazin, a 17-year-old Burmese from a poor family, thought she was going to work in a textile shop in China, earning wages she daren’t dream of as a market…
Malaysia frees 105 foreign maids 'held against will'
Malaysian authorities have freed 105 mostly Indonesian maids who were forced to work without pay by day and held against their will at night. “It was terrible.…
Hong Kong sex workers fight long arm of the law
In a Hong Kong tower block prostitutes in one-room brothels sell themselves for as little as US$40 a time and are often exploited by triad gangsters and…
THAILAND: Children trafficked to sell flowers and beg
In an impoverished town in Thailand near the border with Myanmar, a trafficker offered a desperate Burmese widow 5,000 baht (US$160) on the spot, followed by…
Hundreds of Laotian women sold in China.
Over the past two years, hundreds of Laotian girls have entered illegally into China, innocent and unsuspecting victims of human trafficking.
Trafficking of SE Asian women to China on the rise
The number of women trafficked into China from other countries is rising and most of them come from rural areas of neighboring countries Vietnam, Myanmar and…
CHINA: Mother of Trafficking Victim Detained
A Uyghur woman says she was illegally placed in custody for petitioning officials about her son’s case.
XIA-AIMEI: New Indonesian Film about Trafficking and Slavery
Human rights violations are always a sensitive issue, especially for local filmmakers, because they shine a light on the darker side of a society. Xia Aimei is…
The men who exposed sex-trafficking in Australia
Ning's father took her from their home in Kalasin, in north-eastern Thailand to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and sold her to people traffickers. Posing as her…
Malaysian maids vulnerable to human trafficking
The Indonesian embassy in Malaysia has criticised Kuaka Lumpur's move to allow hiring of maids without going through agencies, saying it opened up loopholes…
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