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Human Trafficking
12,000 Survivors Write to Indian PM on Anti-Trafficking Bill
Meera looked tiny behind the large wooden podium—bundled in her pink sweater and scarf, unrehearsed, and using a microphone for one of the first...
January 15
Human Trafficking
IJM Leading Human Trafficking Awareness Month Efforts
Friday, January 11, 2019 — January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, utilized by government agencies and businesses to highlight a fact that few...
January 11
Slavery
Urgent Rescue: 52 Locked in Shed, Abused - Now Free
IJM supported local authorities in an urgent rescue operation this week in southern India, freeing 52 enslaved women, men and children from...
December 22
Human Trafficking
Reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA)
International Justice Mission (IJM) welcomes the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) by the 115th U.S. Congress. With...
December 21
Sexual Violence
Guatemalan Courts Take Strong Stand against Sexual Violence
In the last two months, IJM Guatemala has seen Guatemalan courts bring an end to two cases of sexual violence against children with outstanding...
December 18
Police Abuse of Power
Senior Police Officer Convicted of Murder in Kenya
A senior police officer was convicted today after he was found guilty of murder in a high-profile case of police abuse in Kenya.
December 13
Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC)
Five Children Under 11 Rescued as Mother is Arrested
ILIGAN CITY, PHILIPPINES — This week, diligent investigations and more than a month of surveillance led police to rescue five children—all under the...
December 07
Slavery
Six Children Free in Two Simultaneous Rescues in Ghana
This week, police and IJM rescued five children and arrested two suspected traffickers in an operation in Ghana. The youngest child, a 6-year-old...
December 06
Sex Trafficking
Criminal Network Selling Hundreds of Girls Begins to Topple
Mumbai police and the IJM team have secured a much-awaited breakthrough in the fight against sex trafficking this fall.
December 06