The Taliban banned forced marriage in Afghanistan on December 3, declaring “both (women and men) should be equal.” Many have applauded [...]
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The Teen Fighting Forced Child Marriage in Bangladesh
Meghla has two birth certificates. The real one states that she’s just turned 18, but thanks to a corrupt Bangladeshi official, [...]
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Trafficking survivor in India shares pain of long-lasting stigma
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U.N. calls out abuses of North Korean trafficking victims
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The brutal murder in June of a Pakistani migrant worker in Sicily is emblematic of a serious and worsening problem of migrant worker [...]
Attitudes towards massage parlors are putting workers in danger
In the wake of the racist attack that targeted massage parlors in Atlanta last week, advocates for massage workers, sex workers and [...]
How the U.K. became an origin country for human trafficking
For years the U.K. was known as a country where people were trafficked to from abroad. Yet new statistics from the U.K. government and [...]