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Artist Leena Kejriwal is using her work to inspire change in India. She’s spray painted stark black silhouettes of little girls on buildings, railway stations, and schools across the country’s cities and small towns. The silhouettes point to a severe problem in India: according to national crime statistics every eight minutes a girl in India goes missing into […]
Photo credit: Miguel Candela There are no walls or fences between India and Nepal. The two countries share a relatively open border, and Indian and Nepali passport holders do not need visas to visit each others’ countries. While this policy promotes cultural and economic exchange, it has also allowed human traffickers to take women and […]
In a first, a court in Jashpur, Chhattisgarh in northeastern India, has convicted two Delhi-based recruitment agents of human trafficking. They have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and each fined Rs 45000. Jashpur is a hub for the trafficking of girls. Thousands have been lured into domestic servitude in cities over recent years, but this […]
Indian Minister for Women & Child Development Smt Maneka Gandhi is likely to table India’s new anti-trafficking bill in the coming weeks during the monsoon session of parliament. However, as Prabha Kotiswaran, a lecturer in Criminal Law at King’s College London, explains, the The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill 2018 has several weaknesses that need […]
Campaigners are urging automakers to be more transparent in how they source the mineral mica — which adds a shimmer to cars — after Mercedes-Benz announced that it would work to ensure that mica it sources from India is both from legal mines and free from child labor. Mercedes-Benz audited three mica mines in their […]
Anti-trafficking NGOs in India are being forced to put their work on hold following public lynchings of 10 people and false rumors of child kidnapping spreading across Facebook and WhatsApp. Anti-trafficking activists say they fear being targeted as their work involves interacting with vulnerable children — something they fear could be misconstrued as something sinister. […]
Kelly Sprague knew her husband had a problem. He thrashed about violently in their bed at night and tried cutting himself with knives. The behavior led her husband, Matt Sprague, to visit a therapist, ultimately uncovering disturbing trauma from his childhood — he was a victim of child sex trafficking as a boy, abused in […]
Hong Kong was ranked in the Tier 2 Watchlist for the third consecutive year by the US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, narrowly escaping an automatic downgrade to Tier 3 thanks to a waiver by the US. Still, Hong Kong officials slammed the report, calling it unfair and saying it had ignored local authorities’ efforts. […]
Ireland has been downgraded to Tier 2 in the latest Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report released by the US State Department. The US TIP report highlights abuses in the Irish fishing industry as one reason for the downgrade, but also notes that the Irish government has failed to convict traffickers and protect victims of trafficking for […]
Malaysia has billed itself a “heaven for foreign companies” for years, drawing over 5,000 foreign firms to set up their facilities in the Southeast Asian country. The electronics industry — producing everything from phones to semiconductors — makes up Malaysia’s largest manufacturing sector, accounting for over 36 percent of the country’s exports and a quarter of […]
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