TAG / HUMAN TRAFFICKING

As the UN champions global efforts against modern-day slavery, scrutiny is mounting over whether its attorney’s financial support of her husband—who long defended the world’s largest child sex trafficking marketplace—undermines the institution’s human rights mandate.

INTERPOL’s Operation Liberterra III mobilized 14,000 officers in a sweep across brothels, factories and private homes in 119 countries and territories—rescuing thousands and exposing networks that trade weapons alongside human beings.

As human exploitation networks migrate online, artificial intelligence is helping investigators turn a vast ocean of online data into life-saving leads.

Three new laws took effect on October 1 in the Sunshine State, imposing harsher penalties for trafficking minors, luring children and distributing nonconsensual sexual content.

As Australia boasts a Tier One US ranking for anti-trafficking efforts, the data expose a darker dimension: family-based coercion, forced marriage and exploitation hiding in plain sight.

Johnson transported victims and supplied firearms for a gang that trafficked five women, including a child. The Georgia AG says the community is safer now that LOTTO leaders are behind bars.

Survivors and attorneys are forcing the hospitality industry to pay a steep price for looking the other way while children were abused.

Survivors describe years of rape, beatings, threats and quota systems as trafficking jumps 1,900 percent in Montana.

Authorities vow long prison terms as California, already the nation’s trafficking epicenter, reels from crimes targeting foster children and runaways.

In a world where conflict dominates headlines and human rights fall victim to spin, censorship and competing agendas, a global summit at the UN gave young delegates the mic—and a mission.