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Police and customs seize live animals, horns and ivory in global wildlife trafficking operation

Interpol and the World Customs Organization say they seized 53 primates, four big cats and more than 1,300 birds in their sweeping annual crackdown on wildlife and timber trafficking

The Independent UK

Human trafficking, sexual abuse and exploitation: the 'loss and damage' from climate change a fund will not compensate

Violence against women and children, including sexual abuse and exploitation, remains a taboo subject in the policy debates attended by international delegates at COP28, the latest round of the UN climate negotiations in Dubai. However, the connections between climate change and gender-based violence, including human trafficking, are real and already…

The Conversation

China Stresses Prevention of Fentanyl Manufacturing, Trafficking

Authorities pushed for jointly combatting transnational drug crimes and deepening bilateral and multilateral anti-drug cooperation

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Cases of human trafficking victims being forced to commit cybercrimes on the rise

Interpol op. unearths fraud schemes fueled by human trafficking, resulting in 281 arrests, 149 victims rescued, 360 investigations opened. Operation Storm Makers II uncovered fake investments, work-from-home offers, lottery and online gambling scams. Victims subjected to torture, sexual violence & forced labor. Traffickers targeting migrants stranded in countries due to…

The Hindu

Online scamming industry includes more human trafficking victims, Interpol says

Cyberfraud is considered human trafficking's newest form of exploitation, according to the global crime-fighting organization. Victims are largely found in Southeast Asia and Latin America.

WEKU

Libyan militias ‘making a killing’ off kidnapping refugees for ransom

Refugee Salem Doma was tortured and held for ransom in Bani Walid, Libya, another victim of human trafficking.

Al Jazeera

Child safety groups and prosecutors criticize encryption of Facebook and Messenger

Meta submitted nearly 95% of 29m reports of child sexual abuse material in 2022 and encryption will make it harder to detect

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Indonesia suspects human trafficking is behind the increasing number of Rohingya refugees

Indonesia’s president says his government blames a surge in human trafficking for the increasing number of Rohingya Muslims who have entered the country over the past few weeks

The Independent UK

UK Government 'ignoring' human trafficking amid focus on small boats, MPs conclude

THE UK Government is prioritising issues like small boats crossings “at the expense of tackling human trafficking” – despite a rhetoric about…

The National (Scotland)

Meta platforms are marketplaces for child predators claims lawsuit

Facebook and Instagram ‘enabled adults to find, message and groom minors’ for sexual exploitation, alleges state of New Mexico legal filing

The Guardian - UK

Proceedings under offence of kidnapping, trafficking of children can't be quashed on settlement basis: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court, in an order, stated that the practice of compromising cases that involve the kidnapping of innocent children">minor children cannot be allowed and the criminal proceedings cannot be quashed based on such settlements. Read further on Dynamite News:

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DeSantis Gets Sex Trafficking Wrong at GOP Debate

"We're going to build a wall...I am not going to sit there and let sex trafficking go unabated," DeSantis said.

Reason

Lombard man pleads guilty to trafficking fentanyl and providing support to ISIS

Jason Brown, 41, has been in custody since his 2019 arrest. He was accused of shipping fentanyl from California to the suburbs and sending money to the Islamic State of Iraq.

Chicago Sun-Times

Diddy denies sex crime allegations as fourth accuser files lawsuit

US music mogul has faced allegations from four separate women of crimes including rape and trafficking

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In Mexico, Yellen announces economics sanctions as the US aims to crack down on fentanyl trafficking

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced economic sanctions against 15 people and two companies that the United States says are linked to a Mexican drug cartel

The Independent UK

Former Abercrombie & Fitch boss sues company amid sex trafficking case

Mike Jeffries files lawsuit in Delaware stating that Abercrombie & Fitch was ignoring his right to have his fees covered in sex trafficking case

AAP

Pair to stand trial over alleged double murder shooting

Two people have been committed to stand trial after being charged with murder and drug trafficking after two others were killed in 2021.

AAP

'Chicken man' fried in cocaine trafficking bust

An accused drug trafficker known as 'Chicken man' has been charged with several drugs offences after allegedly importing and trafficking cocaine across Victoria

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The Hindu

As many as 584 human trafficking cases registered in a year

Mysuru Principal District Judge Prabhavati M. Hiremath reported 584 cases of child trafficking registered in district courts in last one year. 424 cases of girls and 164 of boys trafficked. 175 cases of child marriage, 109 runaway children, 67 rape, 41 begging and 411 reuniting with parents. Human trafficking a…

Latin Times

Yellen To Visit Mexico For Talks On Supply Chains, Combating Fentanyl Trafficking

The trip comes amid the U.S. Treasury Department's announcement of a "counter-fentanyl strike force," as "combatting the flow of deadly fentanyl into communities across the United States is a top priority for President Biden as well as the Treasury Department."

The Independent UK

Treasury creates new strike force as US and China pursue crackdown on illicit fentanyl trafficking

The Treasury Department is announcing a new strike force to help combat illicit fentanyl trafficking

International Business Times

North Korean Smugglers Disguised Under Pacific Island Flags

North Korean "smuggling networks" are registering ships in Pacific nations to disguise themselves while trafficking oil, according to former United Nations sanctions experts and documents obtained by AFP. With strict sanctions limiting Pyongyang's ability to import fuel, North Korean smugglers have adopted increasingly creative methods to deceive authorities and dodge…

The Hindu

Drug abuse claims 68 lives in 11 months in Mizoram

In Mizoram, 68 people, incl. 11 women, died due to drug abuse in Jan-Nov 2023. Since 1984, 1,804 people, including 218 women, have died due to drug abuse. Highest number of deaths was 143 in 2004. 76.22 kg of heroin seized in Jan-Oct 2023. 148.46 kg of ganja and 78.82…

The Guardian - UK

Patel and Braverman accused of secret policy to deny trafficking victims leave to remain

Home Office unlawfully failed to issue permission to stay, court told, despite ruling that 1,600 were entitled to it

The National (Scotland)

'Secret' Home Office policy stopped asylum seekers staying in UK, court hears

Hundreds of trafficking victims trying to start new lives in Britain have suffered as a result of a “secret internal policy” operated by two…

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