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Sex Trafficking
Rescue Operation Amid COVID-19: Six Rescued. Five Arrested.
A minor and five adult women are now free from sexual exploitation after a successful rescue operation on May 23rd. As the sun rose for a new day in...
June 03
Slavery
Double Operation Frees 526 from Two Brick Kilns
On Monday, IJM and our grassroots partners supported a critical rescue operation freeing 526 people who had been trapped at two abusive brick kilns...
June 03
Slavery
Girl Pulled Out of School and Forced to Process Fish Rescued Along with Two Other Boys
ACCRA, GHANA – In May, Ghanaian police, the Department of Social Welfare and IJM conducted an operation to rescue three children, two boys and one...
June 01
Labor Trafficking
Arrest of a Trafficker After Three Years On the Run from Justice
In May 2017, the IJM Cambodia team watched as the panel of three trial judges found three accused persons guilty under the anti-trafficking law for...
May 31
Slavery
64 Children Among Hundreds Rescued at Brick Kiln During Lockdown
Earlier this week, IJM assisted local authorities in rescuing 281 people from bonded labor at a massive brick kiln. This included 64 children of all...
May 29
Slavery
Urgent Rescue of 360 People Sparks Mass Exodus from Brick Kilns
This week, IJM helped Indian law enforcement rescue 360 people from bonded labor at a notoriously brutal brick kiln—which then led to the release of...
May 22
Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC)
Study reveals dramatic rise in the prevalence of internet-based child sexual exploitation in the Philippines
Wednesday, May 20, 2020, MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Within three years, the estimated prevalence rate of internet-based child sexual exploitation in the...
May 21
Slavery
Unsafe in Lockdown: Migrant Laborers, Already Vulnerable to Modern Slavery, Now Dangerously Exposed
“I wasn’t ready. There was no sign. We were doing our job in the morning, and then we were told to leave the factory later that afternoon. Our...
May 05
Slavery
Rescue at Sea: Five Fishermen Free
Five fishermen are now free from forced labor and human trafficking after being rescued by Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) with...
March 26