In the weeks leading up to a critical annual US report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world's worst offenders, human

Thai prosecutors have indicted 72 people, including politicians and an army general, over the trafficking of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Detective Branch of police arrested an enlisted human trafficker in Chamrar Gudam area in Chittagong city yesterday.

Rab arrested five alleged human traffickers raiding a fraudulent recruiting agency office and a flat in the capital's Uttara on Monday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have arrested five members of an international human-trafficking syndicate and seized 195 passports from their possession in Uttara of Dhaka.

An estimated 25,000 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar boarded smugglers' boats in the Bay of Bengal in the first three months of 2015, according to

Police arrested three alleged human traffickers and rescued a woman at Kashipur in Khulna city on Tuesday night.

Sixty three Bangladeshi trafficking victims -- 39 rescued from Andaman Sea by the Thailand authorities and 24 from Indonesia -- will return home.

Forty-seven Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who had been rescued by the Thai authorities from the Andaman Sea last year, returned home from Bangkok yesterday.

“We were sold the way cows and goats are sold in markets. We were treated like animals."

As many as 144 human trafficking victims headed for home yesterday, two days after they were repatriated from Myanmar.

At least 52 families in Bhola's Charfashion are now broke because of one broker of an international human trafficking gang.

Their faces etched with agonies they underwent just to pursue their dreams.

Migration experts, development workers, and families of trafficking victims and survivors yesterday demanded that the government

A three-star Thai army general wanted on human trafficking charges handed himself into police yesterday, as the United States called

In Bangladesh's southernmost tip, families cling to scraps of paper with Malaysian and Thai hand phone numbers scribbled on them

In 2012, government formed more than 5,000 committees in efforts to fight human trafficking. But the committees exist only on paper and have done nothing in the last three years.

Indian rights activist and Nobel winner Kailash Satyarthi yesterday expressed deep concern at child trafficking within and across the border of South Asian countries, particularly in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal.

To society, he is seen as a philanthropist, often helping his less fortunate countrymen. But what is not known is that this former Myanmar refugee and his Malaysian business partner make millions from the misery of trafficking victims.

Law enforcement agencies yesterday arrested eight alleged human traffickers from Chittagong and Cox's Bazar.