Sex Trafficking

Ghislaine Maxwell's guilty verdict in sex trafficking case bad news for Britain's Prince Andrew

Prince Andrew wasn’t on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case, but her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne

Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell trial in sex trafficking case to begin tomorrow

The 59-year-old daughter of the late newspaper baron Robert Maxwell stands accused of recruiting and grooming underage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein

R Kelly’s lawyer requests US court to push sex trafficking trial after he was in jail quarantine

R Kelly's lawyers argued that his new lawyers haven’t been able to meet with him in person because of the quarantine

What a century-old sex trafficking case in New Zealand reveals about modern exploitation and justice

We’ve all read stories of women who were coerced and abused in the sex industry. They pepper our newspapers, televisions and films – and Lydia Harvey’s story is no different. She was abused, confined against her will and never saw a penny of the money she earned selling sex.

Four survivors of trafficking on life in lockdown, and why it has meant a resurgence of old fears, uncertainties

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reported 38,503 cases of trafficking in the country between 2011 and 2019.

Survivors of sex-trafficking in Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata show how women sold off as slaves are helping others caught in same web

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, 19,223 women and children were trafficked in 2016 alone

Manhattan court judge orders sex trafficking lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein to proceed

Brad Pitt had recently said that the Harvey Weinstein scandal had rattled and changed the course of Hollywood in the same way as the Manson family murders.

India's anti-trafficking bill could be made stronger by looking to local systems that help prevent forced prostitution

Sex workers can be government partners in the fight against human trafficking — but only if they are not its targets.

Gujarat Police files charges against 16 in trafficking racket busted in 2017; accused helped 52 illegally enter Canada

The racket was busted in 2017 when one of the victims, Komal Dabgar, was deported from Canada after the authorities found that her passport was fake.

Child trafficking in India: What the Deoria, Muzzafarpur and Yadagirigutta cases highlight about the problem

It is in encountering the individual stories of trauma that one begins to comprehend what survivors of trafficking go through.