11 boys and 17 girls were trafficked to India, Immigration Police

Verdict six years after the case went to court

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has cracked down on a major human trafficking racket, arresting 22 men who posed as professional footballers to illegally enter Japan on forged documents.

A 21-year-old woman escaped her alleged traffickers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and sought help from law enforcement

Bangladesh has intensified efforts against human trafficking but inefficiency and complicity of officials are hindering the country’s success on the issue, according to an annual US State Department report

Only one person was convicted in a human trafficking case in Bangladesh in 2020, according to a UN report highlighting the concern over low convictions of the crime.

Human trafficking cases in Bangladesh and the Philippines increased after devastating cyclones and typhoons displaced millions, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today.

A Bangladeshi boy has been rescued from an empty container which reached the Port Klang of Malaysia on a cargo ship that left Chattogram Port six days ago.

At least four people including a child died as a Malaysia-bound trawler carrying Rohingya refugees sunk off the coast of Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar yesterday morning.

Hearing the news of the mass graves discovered in Thailand in 2015, family members of three men who had left Bangladesh two years ago thought they were among those buried.

Efforts to combat human trafficking need to be coordinated both in cyberspace and the real world, since the menace has latched on to the internet and gotten worse amid the pandemic, said speakers yesterday.

Speakers highlighted the importance of creating mass awareness in preventing human trafficking to encourage citizens for safe migration at a meeting in Shariatpur yesterday.

Rab claimed to have arrested five members of a human trafficking syndicate from Cox’s Bazar’s Rajakhali, who conned people by promising to send them to Malaysia.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said human trafficking and migrant smuggling cannot be prevented by only one organisation or agency.

Speakers at a virtual discussion today stressed the need for building awareness of human trafficking among vulnerable groups and proper enforcement of law in the country to reduce such crimes.

When migrant workers fell victim to labour trafficking and filed cases with the police, the law enforcers prosecuted or arrested the recruiting agents responsible for sending the workers abroad. 

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested eight members of a human trafficking syndicate early yesterday, who trafficked job seekers to Dubai on tourist visas with fake BMET immigration clearance card.

After the incredibly brave rescue efforts to retrieve her daughter from traffickers in India -- an extraordinary story that stunned people in Bangladesh and the neighbouring country alike -- the mother from the capital’s Pallabi thought her ordeals were over.

Owners of different recruiting agencies have urged the government to reform the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act-2012 to end “harassment” against them.

Justice remains elusive for 21 fortune seekers, who either died or went missing after being trafficked abroad, as investigators could not collect any evidence in around one and a half years since filing of the cases.