The Latest Breaking News from Trafficking

An interview with sex work researcher Tara Burns.

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along. Hardly…

Doctors say proposals will make it difficult to reassure trafficking victims and asylum seekers ‘hospitals are safe places’

A federal appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May

The mogul has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking and racketeering

Entertainment mogul is accused of using network of associates for sex trafficking and intimidation of victims.

Employee says he was fired after raising allegations of child abuse at West’s Donda Academy

Some victims reported that they initially worked as waitresses before being forced into sex work under the threat of violence.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs will face a sex trafficking trial in May 2025, a judge has now declared.

No further action will be taken against a bus company tycoon who was charged with human trafficking offences, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal…