EXCLUSIVE-Thai police under scrutiny as record number of trafficking cases dismissed

Lawyers and campaigners say the conflation of smuggling and trafficking means some resources intended for trafficking victims are being spent on migrants who have not been exploited

Stolen and sold: Armenia probes babies lost to Europe

Anti-slavery groups consider illegal adoptions, when a child is brought to another country in breach of regulations or as a result of wrongdoing, a form of child trafficking

Brazil finds fewer workers in slave-like jobs despite more complaints

Cases in Brazil are becoming more spread out among different workplaces, which could help explain why fewer workers were found by inspectors

Indian schoolgirl wins bravery award for thwarting trafficker

Carolyn Malsawmtluangi, from the northeastern state of Mizoram, stopped a human trafficker who had kidnapped a seven-year-old girl from a neighbouring village

India's railways to use facial recognition amid privacy fears

Most major railway stations in India will use facial recognition to fight crime by the end of 2020, a senior official said

Bangladesh hopes to stem trafficking of Rohingya by opening schools

Bangladesh believes education can protect the young refugees from traffickers' false promises of work and better lives

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Global brands urge Cambodia to reform labour amid EU sanction threat

EU accounts for nearly half of Cambodia's exports, the country's largest industry, which employs about 700,000 people and accounts for 40 percent of gross domestic product