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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 …

Here’s what happened when a primary school teacher in the Western Cape suspected a pupil was being sexually abused

A Zimbabwean mother is yet to recover from the nightmare of losing her three-year-old daughter who was trafficked to South Africa allegedly by her father’s relatives and police refused to open a docket against the perpetrators. The mother, Charlene Gugulethu Moyo through Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has intensified efforts to rescue her baby …

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Monrovia – The Ministry of Justice, through its Minister for Litigation, Cllr. Wesseh Alphonsus Wesseh, has requested Criminal Court "A" Judge Roosevelt Z. Willie to issue an international arrest warrant against Samuel Chan-Chan, the main defendant i

If it's too good to be true, then it probably is. Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (center) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo gave this reminder to Filipinos here and abroad amid reports that foreign criminal syndicates have been exploiting some of them in so-called cryptocurrency scams. "W

LAGUNA – Authorities rescued seven victims of human trafficking in two separate entrapment operations conducted by the Provincial Special Operations Unit (PSOU) and Los Baños Municipal Police Station (MPS) on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. In a statement, the Laguna Police Provincial Office (PPO) said

THE chairman of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs on Tuesday called on Philippine authorities to investigate the criminal networks running cryptocurrency scams in Southeast Asia. Kabayan Rep. Ron Salo, in a statement, condemned criminal networks for exploiting Filipinos in cryptocurrency scams. “I strongly condemn the illegal trafficking of our fellow Filipinos…

On January 16, a dozen global human rights experts, associated with the United Nations Human Rights Council, raised serious concerns on the alarming increase in abductions of girls in Pakistan who are later forced to marry and trafficked far from...

In a win for LGBTQ+ rights, the Sri Lankan government has announced support for a bill decriminalising same-sex relationships.