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Child labour in domestic work is a widespread phenomenon across Pakistan. One in every four households in Pakistan employs a child in domestic work, predominantly children in the age group of 10 to...

43-year-old Nigerian, Okwudilichukwu Bobokwu Idoko, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the North Gauteng High Court for contravening the Trafficking

The trio were charged with human trafficking kidnapping, fraud, and forgery.

Korean, Filipino woman nabbed for ‘pimping’ women

Korean national, Filipina cohort nabbed for ‘pimping’ 3 women

A Dubai-based expert stressed that while ‘it is true that there are Filipinos who go to other countries and then fly to UAE to work, it may also be true that a passe...

KUCHING: A review study to improve the Destitute Persons Act 1977 to deal with the issue of beggars is expected to be completed this September, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri.

Pakistan has laws to tackle TIP and human smuggling, but these have not proved to be effective in stemming the flow

The city conducts regular checks at the bar district and has closed around 30 establishments since January

From the Chambers of the Attorney General of St Vincent and the Grenadines The Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act 2011 was amended by the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons (Amendment) Act 2023 as it relates to the penalties for offences set out in the legislation. The United Nations defines Human Trafficking as the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim …