Featured Reports

Open Democracy: Open Democracy: Twenty years of slow progress: Is anti-trafficking changing? 29 May 2025

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Mongabay: Amazon illegal gold mines drive sex trafficking in the Brazil-Guyana border, 29 May 2025

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Pro Publica: Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations, 28 May 2025

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Global Sisters Report: Finding hope along the winding road of human trafficking, 23 May 2025

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Policy Updates and Analysis

American Legislative Exchange Council: State Leaders Target Labour Trafficking, 28 May 2025

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news4sanantonio: AI technology offers hope in human trafficking cases, 27 May 2025

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Human Trafficking for Forced Labour in Supply Chains: What You Need to Know, 26 May 2025

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United Kingdom and Ireland

The Headlines

BBC: UK prosecutors say 21 charges authorised against Tate brothers, 28 May 2025

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BBC: Agency care staff 'charged £10k for free work visas', 28 May 2025

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England

• Bedfordshire: Bedfordshire Police file leads to CPS charging Tate brothers with rape and trafficking. Read more.

  
  

• Warwickshire: Every trainee police officer in Romania to receive special training thanks to DCI Dave Andrews. Read more.

Europe

• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Advancing Institutional Capacities to Combat Human Trafficking, 29 May 2025. Read more.

  
  

Africa

• Guinea-Bissau: Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. Read more.

  
  

• Liberia: Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. Read more.

  
  

• South Africa: Joshlin Smith: South Africa's human trafficking problem. Read more.

  
  

Asia and Oceania

• Bangladesh: 'Foreign Wives' For Sale? Chinese Embassy Warns Against Marriage Scams In Bangladesh. Read more.

  
  

• China: China’s Sex Industry and the Human Trafficking Crisis: A Deepening Human Rights Emergency. Read more.

  
  

• Iraq: UN: Iraqi Ministry of Interior Successful in Combating Human Trafficking. Read more.

Latin America and Caribbean

• Brazil: Brazil pioneering fight against child labor, forced labor, modern slavery, and human trafficking. Read more.

  
  

• Brazil: Brazilian prosecutors accuse BYD of slave labour and human trafficking. Read more.

  
  

• Costa Rica: Costa Rican police say they busted crime ring trafficking Asian migrants to US. Read more.

  
  

North America

• USA, Minnesota: Family of Four Froze to Death at U.S. Border: Human Traffickers Convicted. Read more.

  
  

• USA, New York: Judge rules against mistrial in Sean Combs sex trafficking trial. Read more.