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Heartbreaking Video Shows 1-Year-Old Dumped At US-Mexico Border
About 200,000 people try to cross the border from Mexico to the United States each month. Most of them are from Central and South America.
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Human Traffickers Pose As Business Touts On Facebook: UK Officials
Facebook is failing to prevent people smugglers and human traffickers from luring in victims through the social network, law enforcement officials in Britain said on Friday.
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2 Alleged Human Smugglers On Trial Over Aylan Kurdi's Death
Two alleged people-smugglers went on trial in Turkey today accused of causing the death of 3-year-old Syrian migrant boy Aylan Kurdi - who put a human face on the Syrian refugee crisis - and four other people.
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20 Cuban Migrants Rescued Off Colombian Coast
The Colombian coast guard rescued 20 Cuban migrants Sunday who were on a boat that had been abandoned by human traffickers in the Gulf of Uraba, the navy said.
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Bangladesh Arrests 20 Human Smugglers In Fresh Crackdown
Bangladesh police have arrested a human trafficking "godfather" in a fresh crackdown on smugglers amid fears of a resumption of the racket that sparked a regional migrant crisis earlier this year, an officer said today.
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ASEAN Launches Fund to Share Cost of Hosting Trafficking Victims
Southeast Asian countries Thursday launched a fund to share the cost of hosting human trafficking victims, after a regional migrant crisis saw victims ping-ponged between countries reluctant to accept them.
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Chittoor Killings: Post-Mortem Report Submitted to the Hyderabad High Court
The post mortem reports of 20 alleged red sanders smugglers killed in a controversial encounter in the forests of Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, were submitted to the Hyderabad High Court today.
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Chittoor Killings: 2 Witnesses Who Claim Encounter Was Fake, Meet Rights Body
Two men whose accounts suggest that the police in Andhra Pradesh staged the killing of 20 alleged red sanders smugglers last week will appear before the National Human Rights Commission in Delhi today.
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Indonesia Threatens Australia With 'Tsunami' of Asylum-Seekers
An Indonesian minister has warned a "human tsunami" of asylum-seekers could be unleashed on Australia in retaliation if Canberra keeps pressing for clemency for two Australian drug smugglers on death row, as ties between the neighbours fray.
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Human Trafficking a $7 billion Business Along Main Routes: United Nations
Smugglers rake in $7.0 billion (5.6 billion euros) every year from human trafficking between Africa and Europe and between Latin and North America, even as thousands continue to die in search of a better life, a new UN estimate showed on Monday.
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Migration Spotlights Mexican 'Coyote' Smugglers
The man-in-the-know nursed a late-morning beer at a bar near the Suchiate River that separates Guatemala from Mexico, and answered a question about his human smuggling business with a question: "Do you think a coyote is going to say he's a coyote?"
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Mercy pleas of four Veerappan associates rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee: report
The mercy pleas of sandalwood smuggler Veerapan's four associates, sentenced to death in a 1993 landmine blast case, have been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee, a human rights activist said here today.
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Heartbreaking Video Shows 1-Year-Old Dumped At US-Mexico Border
About 200,000 people try to cross the border from Mexico to the United States each month. Most of them are from Central and South America.
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Human Traffickers Pose As Business Touts On Facebook: UK Officials
Facebook is failing to prevent people smugglers and human traffickers from luring in victims through the social network, law enforcement officials in Britain said on Friday.
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2 Alleged Human Smugglers On Trial Over Aylan Kurdi's Death
Two alleged people-smugglers went on trial in Turkey today accused of causing the death of 3-year-old Syrian migrant boy Aylan Kurdi - who put a human face on the Syrian refugee crisis - and four other people.
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20 Cuban Migrants Rescued Off Colombian Coast
The Colombian coast guard rescued 20 Cuban migrants Sunday who were on a boat that had been abandoned by human traffickers in the Gulf of Uraba, the navy said.
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Bangladesh Arrests 20 Human Smugglers In Fresh Crackdown
Bangladesh police have arrested a human trafficking "godfather" in a fresh crackdown on smugglers amid fears of a resumption of the racket that sparked a regional migrant crisis earlier this year, an officer said today.
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ASEAN Launches Fund to Share Cost of Hosting Trafficking Victims
Southeast Asian countries Thursday launched a fund to share the cost of hosting human trafficking victims, after a regional migrant crisis saw victims ping-ponged between countries reluctant to accept them.
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Chittoor Killings: Post-Mortem Report Submitted to the Hyderabad High Court
The post mortem reports of 20 alleged red sanders smugglers killed in a controversial encounter in the forests of Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, were submitted to the Hyderabad High Court today.
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Chittoor Killings: 2 Witnesses Who Claim Encounter Was Fake, Meet Rights Body
Two men whose accounts suggest that the police in Andhra Pradesh staged the killing of 20 alleged red sanders smugglers last week will appear before the National Human Rights Commission in Delhi today.
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Indonesia Threatens Australia With 'Tsunami' of Asylum-Seekers
An Indonesian minister has warned a "human tsunami" of asylum-seekers could be unleashed on Australia in retaliation if Canberra keeps pressing for clemency for two Australian drug smugglers on death row, as ties between the neighbours fray.
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Human Trafficking a $7 billion Business Along Main Routes: United Nations
Smugglers rake in $7.0 billion (5.6 billion euros) every year from human trafficking between Africa and Europe and between Latin and North America, even as thousands continue to die in search of a better life, a new UN estimate showed on Monday.
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Migration Spotlights Mexican 'Coyote' Smugglers
The man-in-the-know nursed a late-morning beer at a bar near the Suchiate River that separates Guatemala from Mexico, and answered a question about his human smuggling business with a question: "Do you think a coyote is going to say he's a coyote?"
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Mercy pleas of four Veerappan associates rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee: report
The mercy pleas of sandalwood smuggler Veerapan's four associates, sentenced to death in a 1993 landmine blast case, have been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee, a human rights activist said here today.
