By Santosh Digal Manila: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Philippines (CBCP) launched a new forum to fight human trafficking in the country. Bishop Ruperto Cruz Santos of Balanga diocese and chairman of the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (ECMI) inaugurated the newly formed “CatholicContinue Reading
July 30 Is the World Day against Trafficking in PersonsContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Manila: Two thirds of nearly 45 million human trafficking victims worldwide are in Asia, an international conference in the Philippines was told. Millions continue to be forced into bonded labor, commercial sex trafficking and child soldiering and the worst vulnerable are women and children, according to theContinue Reading
Young girls from India’s remote northeast are lured with promises of good jobs and trafficked to Southeast Asia and the Middle East on Nepalese passports, campaigners say, amid fears traffickers are finding new ways to escape checks. “Over a 100 girls from the northeast and northern part of West BengalContinue Reading
Pope Francis will soon sign a universal declaration against human traffickingContinue Reading
Agartala: At least eight tribal girls from Mizoram were rescued from a car while being trafficked to Gujarat, police said on Sunday. As many as two tribal youths were also arrested in this connection, the police said. “They were rescued from a small vehicle on Saturday night while being traffickedContinue Reading
History’s first Latin American pontiff has made the fight against human trafficking a priority of his pontificateContinue Reading
Guwahati: The All India Legal Aid Cell on Child Rights has decided to challenge a recent order of a lower court of Udalguri, where the latter had convicted two human traffickers under Section 370, a legal provision inserted in the law books post the infamous Nirbhaya incident. This was theContinue Reading
Traded umpteen times by husbands, young moms want justiceContinue Reading
Bengaluru: The City police on Thursday rescued 164 children, 25 infants among them, who were forced into beggary. Many of these children had been given sedatives or were physically injured to draw public sympathy. Police also arrested at least 65 women and eight men who were with the children. ‘OperationContinue Reading