Cocoa is the essential ingredient for making chocolate Easter eggs. A significant proportion of the world production of cocoa is grown and harvested on plantations by African slaves. These slaves are on cocoa plantations in remote rural areas in West Africa. Some of the chocolate Easter eggs which we buy is made using slave cocoa. […]
On March 15, 2022, children aged 9 to 15 years of age were rescued from a toy factory in the Bawana Industrial Area in the north of Delhi in India. A total of 73 children — 38 girls and 35 boys — were rescued from a toy factory and polish manufacturing and fan manufacturing factories […]
April 16, 1995 Murder of Iqbal Masih, a former slave carpet weaver since the age of 5. He was a child activist after he escaped from slavery. He was the winner of the Reebok Prize.
Financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and charged with operating a trafficking ring. Details of the circumstances of his death have just been released.
One method used by traffickers is fake child adoption. For many years, traffickers adopted children from orphanages in Romania, until the Romanian government introduced legislation. The predators have now moved their operations from Romania to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With the chaos in that country and the many people killed by roving militias, […]
Girl-child trafficking is one of the fastest-growing business for criminal syndicates. It is estimated that the profit is $99 per annum. The problem is identifying the girls.
Former Victorian police commissioner Christine Nixon will head the crackdown on sex traffickers using the migration system to exploit vulnerable foreign workers. Former Victorian police commissioner, she will target criminal organisations abusing the system, calling allegations of sex trafficking through migration schemes “concerning”. Source The Canberra Times, 30 January 2023
225 missing children have been recovered by the US marshals as part of a 10-week operation that spanned 16 federal districts. In a statement, the United States Marshals Service states: The United States Marshals Service (USMS), along with state and local agencies in 16 federal judicial districts and geographical locations across the US, led a […]
22 May 2023 A Mara Salvatrucha syndicate trafficking young teenage girls in Washington DC was smashed when a US marine officer of the US Marine Forces Reserve noticed a girl. She had the number 13 branded on both arms. The gangs always brand their property. He followed the girl and her driver to the hotel. […]
“It is the fastest growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. It has already passed the illegal arms trade and soon it will pass the drug trade.” Jim Cavezel, who appeared in Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, will star in a new film, Sound of Freedom, which is based on the true […]
Iqbal Masih was a former slave carpet weaver since the age of 5. He became a child activist after he escaped from slavery, working with the Bonded Labour Liberation Front of Pakistan. He was the winner of the Reebok Prize. He was murdered on April 16, 1995. The Society preserves the memory of those who have […]