by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jul 29, 2024
Amid overlapping crises such as armed conflicts, pandemics, economic hardships, and environmental challenges, children are increasingly vulnerable to trafficking. Furthermore, the proliferation of online platforms poses additional risks as children often connect to...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jul 7, 2024
Human trafficking is one of the fastest-growing crimes, along with drugs and arms trafficking, and a highly profitable business, generating an estimated $150 billion in profits each year. Conflict and persecution, poverty and political instability, lack of access to...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jul 2, 2024
Drug traffickers in the Golden Triangle are expanding into wildlife trafficking, financial fraud, and illegal resource extraction, impacting displaced, impoverished, and migrant communities. These groups often resort to opium farming or illegal resource extraction for...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Apr 24, 2024
The involvement of organized crime and the rapid evolution of digital technologies have exacerbated the situation. Online technologies are regularly abused to exploit trafficking victims or advertise migrant smuggling services. Financial crises, armed conflicts and...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Feb 14, 2024
This brief draws from the work and perspectives of such civil society and community members who live in environments that are exposed to disappearances. It assesses this form of organized crime as a serious human rights violation. While informed by the global dynamics...
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