GLO.ACT-Bangladesh Conducts Vital Field Missions to Jashore and Cox's Bazar to Bolster Border Assessment on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling
Human trafficking cases have over the past decades been
on the rise, with only a few years of decline recorded. However, challenges in identifying victims, conducting investigations and prosecuting offenders persist worldwide.
GLO.ACT holds police training and community awareness session on human trafficking and migrant smuggling in Karachi
Combatting Human Trafficking: Successful Launch of Management Information System (MIS) Accompanied by Technical Workshop
"The knowledge gained from our workshops doesn't stay in the meeting room," says Stojne Atanasovska Dimishkovska, as she wraps up a regional meeting on child exploitation in South Eastern Europe and prepares for the mock trial of a trafficking case.
A married couple forces four children to beg from morning until night in cities across Bosnia and Herzegovina for over a year.
When a Venezuelan migrant fled her abusers in Ecuador and crossed the border illegally into Peru, she could have faced deportation and further traumatization.
Instead, due to a project initiated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), she received the support and protection she needed, despite her irregular status.
"If hell exists, it is this jungle."
Aura, a Colombian grandmother, has just crossed one of the most dangerous routes in the Americas: the Darien Gap. The Gap is a dense tropical forest covering over 575,000 hectares across Panama and Colombia.
The criminal networks that
smuggle migrants
on the long and dangerous routes from South Asia to North America have become more ruthless, professional and richer.
GLO.ACT Drives Fight Against Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Iraq: Second Technical Working Group Meeting Paves the Way for Robust Standard Operating Procedures
Child trafficking is one of the worst forms of violence against children and urgent, global action is needed to end it.
A group of people gather at a healthcare clinic in southern Afghanistan.
Although the medical needs in the region are extensive, these men and women are not there for treatment. Rather, they are there to learn how to prevent and detect human trafficking.