The Latest Breaking News from Trafficking

Four men face a life sentence after packaging up to $160m worth of illegal substances to export to Australia and New Zealand

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 16 ancient pieces of artwork to Cambodia and Thailand that federal prosecutors say were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia

The detention took place after the judiciary council, alongside the houses of judges, prosecutors and police officers, were raided on Thursday morning by 900 prosecutors and police officers.

Anneliese Dodds calls for more action to break up human trafficking gangs that are facilitating boat crossings

One in four Black girls will be sexually abused by age 18. Schools must give youth the knowledge and awareness not to fall prey to sex trafficking, a UIC professor writes.

Six Algerians are due to go on trial in Paris this week for aggravated human trafficking. They are suspected of getting unaccompanied foreign minors hooked on psychotropic drugs to get them to steal near the Eiffel Tower.

Interpol and the World Customs Organization say they seized 53 primates, four big cats and more than 1,300 birds in their sweeping annual crackdown on wildlife and timber trafficking

Violence against women and children, including sexual abuse and exploitation, remains a taboo subject in the policy debates attended by international delegates at COP28, the latest round of the UN climate negotiations in Dubai. However, the connections between climate change and gender-based violence, including human trafficking, are real and already…

Authorities pushed for jointly combatting transnational drug crimes and deepening bilateral and multilateral anti-drug cooperation

Interpol op. unearths fraud schemes fueled by human trafficking, resulting in 281 arrests, 149 victims rescued, 360 investigations opened. Operation Storm Makers II uncovered fake investments, work-from-home offers, lottery and online gambling scams. Victims subjected to torture, sexual violence & forced labor. Traffickers targeting migrants stranded in countries due to…

Cyberfraud is considered human trafficking's newest form of exploitation, according to the global crime-fighting organization. Victims are largely found in Southeast Asia and Latin America.