Key insight: Banks are gearing up to monitor transactions related to the World Cup soccer games, looking for signs of human trafficking. What's at stake: Some banks have paid multi-million dollar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was a teenager when I was abducted and trafficked across the United States and into Canada. The people who exploited me used ...

In new research published today, crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis found that crypto-funded transactions for human trafficking—largely forced laborers trapped in compounds across Southeast Asia and ...

A terrified child sits in a dark room, bound with ropes or chains. Armed criminals guard the door. A heroic rescue team storms in just in time to free the victims and arrest the traffickers. For many ...

It doesn’t arrive with sensational headlines or viral statistics. It doesn’t look dramatic enough to trend. And yet, it quietly thrives in the shadows of our largest sporting events—hidden behind food ...

NEW ORLEANS — Last year there were 1,700 victims of sex trafficking in the New Orleans area, and those are just the survivors we know about. And in the short time since this new year began, police ...

Burton ― An undercover Genesee County Sheriff's deputy sits inside a McDonald's alone, her hoodie pulled up, eating an Oreo cookie McFlurry and waiting for her "date." For several hours, the deputy ...

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Co-authored by Asia Eaton, Ph.D., and Andrea Powell Sex trafficking is one of the most severe violations of human rights, yet it remains widely misunderstood. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act ...

For a young man growing up in Ghana or Nigeria, few dreams burn brighter than becoming a professional footballer. Icons like Michael Essien (Ghana), Jay-Jay Okocha (Nigeria) and Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria) ...