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Venezuelan Gang Uses New York Migrant Crisis To Make Criminal Gains: Report
The Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, known for its involvement in sex trafficking, drug dealing, and human smuggling, has infiltrated New York City amidst a surge in migrants.
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300,000 Children Across India Drugged, Beaten, Forced To Beg: Report
At least 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every day, in what has become a multi-million rupee industry controlled by human trafficking cartels, police and trafficking experts said.
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Sudan Urges More Support to Check Human Trafficking, Migration
A senior Sudanese official today called for more international support to check human trafficking and migration across Sudan's borders towards Europe, as EU and African leaders met in Malta to discuss the migration crisis.
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Bulgarian Traffickers Make a Killing in EU Migrant Crisis
The truck with 71 dead migrants abandoned in August on an Austrian motorway had Hungarian plates and a Slovakian poultry firm's livery. But five of the six suspects since arrested are Bulgarians.
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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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Austria Death Truck Suspects Tell Court They Are Innocent
Four suspected human traffickers said they were innocent on Saturday as they appeared in a Hungarian court over the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants found in a truck in Austria, marking a sickening new low in Europe's migrant crisis.
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Moroccan Dies Trying to Reach Spain in Suitcase
A Moroccan man suffocated while being smuggled to Spain in a suitcase stowed in the boot of a car, the Spanish government 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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Malaysia Bids Sombre Farewell to Nameless Rohingya Dead
Malaysian authorities today held a sombre mass funeral for 21 suspected ethnic Rohingya found in human-trafficking graves last month, with fellow Muslims praying for the unidentified victims to find a place in heaven.
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Myanmar to Start Transferring Migrants to Bangladesh
Some 150 migrants found adrift in a boat off Myanmar's coast were set today for transfer to neighbouring Bangladesh, an immigration official said, returning them to homes many tried to flee months ago.
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Rohingya 'Trafficker' Shot Dead in Bangladesh
A Rohingya man suspected of involvement in people trafficking has been shot dead in Bangladesh, police said today, as the country battles a migrant crisis.
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Malaysia Removes Bodies From Mass Graves on Eve of Talks on Human Trafficking
Malaysian police today removed the remains of nine people from jungle camps near the Thai border where an estimated 139 bodies are believed to have been buried in a still unfolding people-smuggling crisis in Southeast Asia.
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Bangladesh Plans to Move Thousands of Rohingya to Island
Bangladesh plans to relocate thousands of Rohingya who have spent years in refugee camps near the Myanmar border to a southern island, an official said Wednesday, as the region faces a human-trafficking crisis.
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Repeated Floods, Ethnic Violence Make Assam a Human Trafficking Epicentre
Earlier this month, 40 children were rescued from a Mumbai fish canning factory by a local NGO. But Assam's human trafficking crisis runs deep.
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UN Expert Urges Talks to End Nigeria Kidnap Crisis
The United Nations' top expert on worldwide human trafficking called for the negotiated release of Nigerian schoolgirls held by Boko Haram rebels, amid worries they might be sold off.
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Venezuelan Gang Uses New York Migrant Crisis To Make Criminal Gains: Report
The Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, known for its involvement in sex trafficking, drug dealing, and human smuggling, has infiltrated New York City amidst a surge in migrants.
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300,000 Children Across India Drugged, Beaten, Forced To Beg: Report
At least 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every day, in what has become a multi-million rupee industry controlled by human trafficking cartels, police and trafficking experts said.
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Sudan Urges More Support to Check Human Trafficking, Migration
A senior Sudanese official today called for more international support to check human trafficking and migration across Sudan's borders towards Europe, as EU and African leaders met in Malta to discuss the migration crisis.
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Bulgarian Traffickers Make a Killing in EU Migrant Crisis
The truck with 71 dead migrants abandoned in August on an Austrian motorway had Hungarian plates and a Slovakian poultry firm's livery. But five of the six suspects since arrested are Bulgarians.
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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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Austria Death Truck Suspects Tell Court They Are Innocent
Four suspected human traffickers said they were innocent on Saturday as they appeared in a Hungarian court over the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants found in a truck in Austria, marking a sickening new low in Europe's migrant crisis.
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Moroccan Dies Trying to Reach Spain in Suitcase
A Moroccan man suffocated while being smuggled to Spain in a suitcase stowed in the boot of a car, the Spanish government 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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Malaysia Bids Sombre Farewell to Nameless Rohingya Dead
Malaysian authorities today held a sombre mass funeral for 21 suspected ethnic Rohingya found in human-trafficking graves last month, with fellow Muslims praying for the unidentified victims to find a place in heaven.
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Myanmar to Start Transferring Migrants to Bangladesh
Some 150 migrants found adrift in a boat off Myanmar's coast were set today for transfer to neighbouring Bangladesh, an immigration official said, returning them to homes many tried to flee months ago.
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Rohingya 'Trafficker' Shot Dead in Bangladesh
A Rohingya man suspected of involvement in people trafficking has been shot dead in Bangladesh, police said today, as the country battles a migrant crisis.
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Malaysia Removes Bodies From Mass Graves on Eve of Talks on Human Trafficking
Malaysian police today removed the remains of nine people from jungle camps near the Thai border where an estimated 139 bodies are believed to have been buried in a still unfolding people-smuggling crisis in Southeast Asia.
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Bangladesh Plans to Move Thousands of Rohingya to Island
Bangladesh plans to relocate thousands of Rohingya who have spent years in refugee camps near the Myanmar border to a southern island, an official said Wednesday, as the region faces a human-trafficking crisis.
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Repeated Floods, Ethnic Violence Make Assam a Human Trafficking Epicentre
Earlier this month, 40 children were rescued from a Mumbai fish canning factory by a local NGO. But Assam's human trafficking crisis runs deep.
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UN Expert Urges Talks to End Nigeria Kidnap Crisis
The United Nations' top expert on worldwide human trafficking called for the negotiated release of Nigerian schoolgirls held by Boko Haram rebels, amid worries they might be sold off.
