US authorities have closed down a classified listings website that had been repeatedly accused of facilitating sex trafficking and charged its founders with a number of...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook should make greater efforts to ensure its platforms are not being exploited by people smugglers, a UN migration official has demanded. Facebook and...
A Europol-backed investigation involving Spanish police has resulted in the arrest of seven suspected members of an Iraqi people smuggling network responsible for trafficking Albanian nationals...
The FBI has accused a self-styled self-help guru of turning his female followers in “sex slaves”. Keith Raniere has been charged with a number of sex...
Popular classified advertisements website Craigslist has banned personal listings after the US government introduced new legalisation making online publishers responsible for the promotion of prostitution and...
US anti-slavery charity Polaris has announced that cases of human trafficking reported to its national hotline and SMS service rose by 13% last year, and that...
Police in Spain have disrupted a major Chinese human trafficking gang that charged migrants €20,000 ($24,748) to be smuggled into the UK and Ireland. In all,...
Twelve members of an international sex trafficking gang that pulled out its victims’ fingernails and made them eat raw chicken hearts during harrowing voodoo rituals have...
Speaking with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Airbnb’s Global Head of Trust and Risk Management has said the short-term property-letting website has teamed up with US anti-trafficking...
US police have praised an alert airline worker who saved two girls from being forced into suspected sexual slavery. Denice Miracle, an American Airlines customer service...
Lions at Kruger National Park in South Africa have eaten a suspected big cat poacher, leaving only his head, according to local police. The man is...
Libya’s attorney general has issued arrest warrants for more than 144 fuel smugglers operating in the western region of the country. The move was praised by...