Tag: Human trafficking
Southeast Asia: Traffickers pose as Christian missionaries, pilgrims to exploit victims
Police operations, supported by wiretaps and coordinated investigations, have uncovered several cases using this “religious cover.”
Children at risk: UN report warns against rising trafficking and impunity
“As a result, trafficking in children remains a low cost and low risk, yet high profits crime, generating billions of dollars annually"
Apostolic administrator in Cambodia hits proposed Thai border wall: ‘Certainly not...
Father Figaredo argued that addressing the crisis requires diplomatic engagement rather than physical barriers
Interfaith summit in Manila calls for stronger action against human trafficking
The two-day Southeast Asian Interfaith Summit aims to address modern slavery and the online sexual exploitation of children
Mary Jane Veloso’s father appeals for clemency: ‘The greatest Christmas gift...
“I call on our President to allow Mary Jane to come straight home... it will be the greatest Christmas gift we could ever receive"
Caritas Internationalis head appeals for global crusade against human trafficking
Be mindful of the many people in this world who have been stripped of their human dignity and driven to the brink of despair
Myanmar border militia emerges as nexus in regional scam network
The militia was formed by fighters who broke away from the Karen National Union insurgent group in the 1990s and sided with the junta
Pope Francis lambasts the scourge of human trafficking
For Pope Francis, trafficking is a “systemic” evil and as such “we can and must eliminate it through a systematic, multilevel approach.”
After Cambodia crypto scam, Indians demand more jobs at home
The United Nations said last year that more than 100,000 people had been trafficked into online scam centres in Cambodia
Cambodian teen rescued from family home in China after Facebook plea
When they arrived in China, they were taken into a room that held many other Cambodian and Vietnamese girls and women
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