#human-trafficking

#human-trafficking

list of 3 itemsend of list Winnie Rose Wambui said she hoped to get information about her brother, Samuel Maina, who went to Russia believing he had a job as a security guard at a mall. She last heard from him in October when he sent a distress voice note from a forest, she told news agency AFP. Parliament Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah presented the intelligence report to the Parliament of Kenya on Wednesday,

The United Nations has warned that migrants in Libya, including young girls, face the risk of being killed, tortured, raped, or forced into domestic slavery. According to a UN Human Rights Office report released on Tuesday, migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees are being forcibly abducted and jailed for long periods until they're sold or kidnappers receive ransom from relatives. list of 4 itemsend of list They endure prolonged detention and are coerced through torture and inhumane treatment into paying for their release, said the report titled Business as Usual.

Janyla Amazing Haqq, 19, was charged in San Mateo County court Wednesday for kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in Daly City and taking her to Oakland to be forced into human trafficking. Prosecutors say Haqq convinced the girl and her male friend to get in a car with her and three strangers, when they proceeded to take the girl to International Boulevard in Oakland after dropping the boy off, who told the girl's mother. [KRON4]

When running for re-election as Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi touted her efforts to prosecute sex traffickers. "Florida ranks third nationally in calls for help in human trafficking, where young women and children are enslaved and abused. I knew we needed all hands on deck," she said in a 2016 ad that's now gone viral for all of the wrong reasons. "I'll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong," she continued. "Behind bars."

Some of its biggest players, like Bumble Bee Foods, Chicken of the Sea, and StarKist, have been caught up in some pretty big legal issues. We're talking about everything from price fixing to false advertising to a lack of transparency around toxins. One ongoing case even accuses a canned fish giant of turning a blind eye to some serious human rights abuses.

A woman at a hotel in the 400 block of Fairgrounds Drive on Friday expressed fear for her safety and reported being subjected to force, threats, and coercion related to sexual exploitation, say police. Police arrested Julius Stinson III, who was detained at a motel on the 1400 block of Enterprise Street on Friday. Stinson is a convicted felon with multiple previous convictions, including attempted murder and voluntary manslaughter.

The group had established industrial parks in Myanmar's Kokang region bordering China, from where they allegedly ran gambling and telecom scam operations involving abductions, extortion, forced prostitution, and drug manufacturing and trafficking. They defrauded victims of more than 29 billion yuan ($4.2bn) and caused the deaths of six Chinese citizens and injuries to others, the court said. The defendants appealed the verdict, but the Guangdong Provincial High People's Court dismissed their applications, it added.

As the standoff between the United States government and Minnesota continues this week over immigration enforcement operations that have essentially occupied the Twin Cities and other parts of the state, a federal judge delayed a decision this week and ordered a new briefing on whether the Department of Homeland Security is using armed raids to pressure Minnesota into abandoning its sanctuary policies for immigrants.

He was writing from hell, 8,000 miles away. A summer shower had left a rainbow over my Brooklyn neighborhood, and my two children were playing in a kiddie pool on the roof of our apartment building. Now the sun was setting, while I-in typical 21st-century parenting fashion, forgive me-compulsively scrolled through every app on my phone. The message had no subject line and came from an address on the encrypted email service Proton Mail: "vaultwhistle@proton.me." I opened it.

"I have a girl that's 12 years old for your client,'" the pilot said. The client's response: "No, we think we need an 8-year-old." The group was horrified. "I have two daughters," Lux says. "We said, 'Wait a minute, really? Where are these people?' Until that time, I thought it only happened overseas. And they said, 'No, it happens in every community in the United States'."

Their attackers had tried to burn them to cover their tracks, but the double femicide left no doubt: it bore the mark of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization. In the wake of the crime, investigations and news reports about the Venezuelan gang followed. And arrests began. Although the Mexico City Security Secretariat tried to downplay its role, police operations proved that this criminal network, after spreading across the continent, was already operating in Mexico.

I'm losing everything.

When black markets for drugs, guns, and all manner of contraband first sprang up on the dark web more than a decade ago, it seemed that cryptocurrency and the technical sophistication of the anonymity software Tor were the keys to carrying out billions of dollars worth of untouchable, illicit transactions online. Now, all of that looks a bit passé. In 2025, all it takes to get away with tens of billions of dollars in black-market crypto deals is a messaging platform willing to host scammers and human traffickers, enough persistence to relaunch channels and accounts on that service when they're occasionally banned, and fluency in Chinese.

A trial got underway in Seoul last week for 46 South Koreans, mostly men in their 20s, accused of participating in online scam operations in Cambodia. Since mid-October, South Korea has repatriated 107 nationals from Cambodia where officials estimate upwards of 1,000 of its citizens are working either "voluntarily or involuntarily" in scam compounds. The repatriation effort follows public outrage over the death of a South Korean college student, who was reportedly lured to Cambodia and forced to work in a scam center.

Caltrain had a 56% increase in ridership in 2025, landing it the title of fastest growing transit agency in the US by American Public Transportation Association's (APTA's) Transit Wrapped 2025 list. Additionally, the agency is rolling out its new electric-powered, one-day-only Holiday Train Saturday tickets sold out in a whopping 45 minutes, but spectators can still watch it roll along its route from SF to Santa Clara with a few notable destinations.