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Police in Australia Probe Case of Guinean Girl Held as ‘Sex Slave’

Police in Australia Probe Case of Guinean Girl Held as ‘Sex Slave’

The 17-year-old from Guinea told investigators she was flown to Sydney via Paris in early April after a man in her home country offered her a job as a cleaner in Australia. Australian police said on Friday they were investigating the case of a West African girl who said she had been held as a […]

Senegal’s Gold Rush Fuels Human Trafficking From Nigeria

Senegal’s Gold Rush Fuels Human Trafficking From Nigeria

Huddled together in the corner of a dimly-lit bar in southeast Senegal while men swig beer, smoke and shout over the blaring music, Grace and the women beside her are silent and sombre. Despite their sequined tops, colourful make-up and striking hairstyles, these women are not here to party. They are victims of sex trafficking, […]

Egypt’s Aya Hijazi’s Trial a Travesty – Postponed Verdict Caps Extensive Fair Trial Violations

Egypt’s Aya Hijazi’s Trial a Travesty – Postponed Verdict Caps Extensive Fair Trial Violations

A Cairo court’s decision on March 23, 2017 to postpone issuing its verdict in the case of Aya Hijazi and the Belady Foundation for Street Children casts a further shadow on the ability of Egypt’s judicial system to deliver justice in this bizarre case, Human Rights Watch said today. Hijazi and her co-defendants, including her […]

Zimbabwean Trio Faces 62 Murder, Rape Charges in South Africa

Zimbabwean Trio Faces 62 Murder, Rape Charges in South Africa

Three Zimbabwean men commonly known as omalayitsha and a South African woman, are expected to go for trial at the Palm Ridge High Court in Johannesburg between October 10 and November 4, facing 62 counts of murder, rape, robbery, extortion and assault among other violent crimes committed against fellow countrymen south of the Limpopo River. […]

Italy arrested five North African men on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking

Italy arrested five North African men on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking

Italy arrested five North African men on Friday on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking in the presumed drowning of more than 200 people, saying they used clubs and knives against migrants. Most of the dead were locked in the hold of a boat that sank off the coast of Libya on Wednesday. Police […]

Eritrea Blames Migrant Exodus On Human Trafficking

Eritrea Blames Migrant Exodus On Human Trafficking

Eritrea has urged the UN Security Council to help bring human traffickers to justice, saying smuggling groups, not human rights abuses, were causing an exodus of migrants to Europe. About 5,000 people flee Eritrea each month, according to the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. Thousands of migrants have been picked up in the Mediterranean trying […]

Economics of trafficking, Rohingya slaves sold in Thailand: US$2,300 per head

Economics of trafficking, Rohingya slaves sold in Thailand: US$2,300 per head

After getting beaten up by his Thai captor, Rohingya refugee Abdul Sabur was again whipped by bamboo sticks until his begging cries could be heard. His screams was then transmitted back to his relatives so to speed up the payment of US$1,800 smuggling fee. Shall there be delay or problem in the procedure, he would […]

Nigeria Human Trafficking ‘Top Priority’, Says Commissioner

Nigeria Human Trafficking ‘Top Priority’, Says Commissioner

Clamping down on the problem of Nigerians being trafficked to the UK is a main priority, the first independent anti-slavery commissioner says. Kevin Hyland told the BBC it was “deeply concerning” that hundreds of Nigerians were brought in every year for prostitution or forced labour. Mr Hyland said the problem of such exploitation was “enormous”. […]

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