Search results for human trafficking

Thousands of children go missing in China every year, and parents say officials have so far done little to help recover them.

A Burmese man describes how he was forced to beat other illegal workers by a Malaysian trafficking gang to buy his own freedom.

A rights group calls on China to crack down on the sale of women who leave isolated, Stalinist North Korea in search of a better life.

A new report prompts Malaysia to investigate persistent allegations that Burmese migrants have suffered gravely, while traffickers act with impunity.

Laos is taking steps to address chronic and widespread malnutrition among its youngest citizens.

Chinese parents are banding together to search for children who have been stolen and sold as slave laborers, saying police haven't acted quickly or thoroughly ...

A Muslim minority group unrecognized by Burma's military regime has sparked a diplomatic flurry, as they take to the high seas to escape persecution.

Cambodians don't trust their own legal system, and corruption allegations in a high-profile Khmer Rouge trial don't help.

Cambodians don't trust their own legal system, and corruption allegations in a high-profile Khmer Rouge trial don't help.

Korean-American Mike Kim, author of 'Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country,' discusses how and why he put a career in ...

Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.

Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.

A Burmese labor activist in Malaysia describes how he was kidnapped and intimidated for speaking out against human trafficking.

Local groups see no progress this year in human rights in Cambodia.

Local groups see no progress this year in human rights in Cambodia.

On the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, overseas human rights groups call for change in Laos.

A brutal assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.

A brutal assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.

Three Burmese women who went to work legally in Malaysia are now being held in one of the country's notorious immigration jails after they lodged a complaint ...

In the cities and countryside of Burma, Tyler Chapman encountered heart-wrenching scenes of poverty every day of his visit in January and February, 2008.

North Korea has a well-earned reputation as one of the most tightly closed and rigorously controlled countries on Earth. But when it comes to the privacy of ...

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A group of ethnic Hmong girls from Laos, forcibly repatriated from Thailand in 2005, has resurfaced in Thailand, deepening a mystery that raised international ...