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Rani Hong was born in southern India, where she had a normal childhood with her mom, dad, and four siblings. Yet when her father became ill, a well-respected woman in their neighborhood offered to help. She asked Rani’s mother if would be willing to send one of her children to live with her. Related Campaign: […]
Indian survivors of trafficking for sexual exploitation are making audio recordings of their experiences as part of a new social media campaign that aims to reduce discrimination many of them face years after their abuse. Campaigners estimate that of India’s 20 million commercial sex workers, 16 million of them are women and girls who are […]
An 8-year-old girl who was being held captive in bonded labor was finally rescued after she managed to escape and contact a relative. The girl had been trafficked to Delhi a few years ago and forced to perform domestic work as well as babysit a 4-year-old child. If she failed to perform her chores she […]
British Somali teenagers are being taken back to their parents’ homeland under the pretense of going on a holiday. However, some end up being taken to “re-education” schools in Somalia and forced into marriage. The UK Home Office says it is aware of the problem, explaining that these schools are not teaching academic material and […]
Why do so many interventions to stop human trafficking fail? Because politicians are less interested in adopting policies that challenge current power relationships. This is what Igor Bosc from the ILO South Asia and Country Office for India argues in a new opinion piece in Open Democracy. As Chief Technical Advisor for the Work in […]
Tea giant Twinings has published a list of Indian tea plantations that it buys from following pressure to increase transparency in an industry rife with labor abuses. The move comes after campaigning by Freedom United and our partner, Traidcraft Exchange, as part of our “Who Picked My Tea” campaign launched in May, which urges major […]
Dave Bastone, the co-founder of Not For Sale, an anti-trafficking non-profit, has worked with victims around the world for more than a decade. But recently had a revelation. “It really struck me that I could be building 10,000 shelters and I wouldn’t really address the root causes of trafficking, nor would I make a dent […]
The Australian government has lifted its eight-year ban on adopting children from India, citing improvements in the adoption process. The ban was initially put in place over evidence that Indian children were being trafficked to orphanages and subsequently adopted by unknowing Australians. Take Action: End orphanage child trafficking. However, Indian NGO Against Child Trafficking, warns […]
A new handbook on trafficking victim identification has helped identify more than 60 cases of human trafficking in Hong Kong within the last year. The Civil Society Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, which created the handbook, says the 63 genuine cases out of 1,037 suspected reports of human trafficking are proof that the crime is more prevalent […]
A survivor of human trafficking is urging global financial institutions to do more to root out human traffickers that move and launder illegal profits within their networks. Rani Hong, a survivor turned business leader, says the world is at a “tipping point” to fight modern slavery. She set up Rani’s Voice, an anti-trafficking social enterprise, and […]
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