Human Trafficking by the Numbers

Human Trafficking

• China State Media Video Extolling Cross-Border Marriage Gets Tough Reviews in Myanmar
• China Responds 'Positively' to Indonesian Request on Human Trafficking
• Hard Labor For 50 North Korean Arts College Students Among 200 Caught in Prostitution Raid
• Indonesia Makes Arrests Over Scheme to Smuggle in Corpses From Chinese Boat
• Philippine Police Rescue Chinese, Vietnamese Women From Prostitution Ring
• Interview: They Said My Face Looked Pretty But Also Old, So $1,100 Was All I Was Worth
• Cambodia’s Top Court Rejects Appeals by Ex-RFA Reporters, Labor Activist in Blow to Press Freedom
• Chinese Boat Supervisor Charged Following Indonesian Crewman’s Death
• Another Indonesian Sailor Dies Aboard a Chinese Fishing Boat
• Rohingya Boat Off Thailand Has Been at Sea Four Months: Malaysian Official
• Indonesia Probes Death of Sixth Man Linked with Chinese Fishing Boats
• Myanmar Court Jails 15 Rohingya For Two Years For Trying to Flee Country
• Myanmar Army Says it Will Try Soldiers Over Killings of Rohingya Civilians
• Charges Filed in Vietnam in Truck Deaths Case
• Myanmar Arrests 49 Rohingya Muslims Attempting to Flee to Malaysia
• Poor Young Women and Girls in Laos Continue to Fall Prey to Trafficking Schemes
• Cambodian Court Rejects Request to Drop Reinvestigation of Former RFA Reporters
• Myanmar Teenager Still Missing as Authorities Arrest Three of Her Traffickers
• Rohingyas Face Third Hearing on Illegal Travel Charges in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region
• Myanmar Navy Picks Up Some 175 Rohingya in Andaman Sea
• Trafficking of Myanmar College Student Sparks Probe Into Fishing Industry Abuses
• First 16 of 39 Bodies Found in U.K. Returned to Vietnam.
• Lao Woman Sentenced to 15 Years for Trafficking Four Girls to China
• Myanmar Family Struggles to Rescue Teen Daughter Who Was Trafficked to China
• Group of Four Lao Young Women Trafficked to China Rescued, Separate Group of Four Remain Missing after Three Years
• Trafficked Myanmar Woman Returns Home After Seven Years in China
• Poverty, Ambition Drive Vietnam’s ‘Underground Labor’ Movement to West, Scholars Say
• Family of 25-year-old Lao Woman Married Off in China Seeks Help Getting Home
• Myanmar Police Detain 30 Rohingya Traveling to Yangon For Work, Emigration
• Lao Migrants Fleeing Poverty Defy Dangers to Work in Thailand
• Two Lao Teens Rescued From Forced Marriages in China Amid Anti-Trafficking Drive
• Vietnam, Cambodia Fall in Rank in Annual US Human Trafficking Report
• Malaysia: Royal Commission Ends Hearings on Wang Kelian Mass Graves
• Lao Officials Strengthen Anti-Trafficking Controls at Border Crossings
• Human Trafficking Across Myanmar-China Border Increases in 2019
• North Korean Women “Uniquely Vulnerable” to Sex Trafficking in China: Report
• Report: Rohingya Refugees Suffered Crimes Against Humanity in Massive Human Trafficking Scheme
• Rights Group Urges Greater Anti-Trafficking Coordination by Myanmar, China to Tackle ‘Bride’ Trade
• Democrats in US Congress Call For Probe Into Chinese Influence Around Trump
• Malaysia Opens New Probe into Wang Kelian Mass Graves
• Police Arrest 24 Villagers Displaced by Armed Conflict in Myanmar’s Chin State
• Myanmar’s Military Warns Ethnic Armies Against Trying to Expand Territory During Cease-fire
• Myanmar Workers Return Home After Fleeing Miserable Conditions at Chinese Sugarcane Plantation
• Bride And Birth Surrogate Ads in Northern Myanmar Spark Local Anger, Government Investigation
• Myanmar Authorities Force Rohingya to Return to Home After Failed Bid to Escape by Boat
• Myanmar Authorities Detain Vessel With Rohingya Refugees Headed to Malaysia
• Lao Woman’s Ordeal Highlights Growing Trafficking Problem as Workers Seek Better Jobs in Thailand
• Myanmar Labor Groups Urge EU Not to Drop Crucial Trade Preferences
• Myanmar, Laos Drop in Rank in Annual US Human Trafficking Report
• ‘Do Not Marry For Money’