Special feature: Data suggests the “3Ps” approach has become a compliance-driven exercise
Praeveni Global’s new data index shows governments’ prevention, protection and prosecution measures are designed to meet targets rather than deliver results.
Elaine Abbott
A new data platform tracks government action on exploitation
Praeveni Global’s new data index shows G20 countries are allocating limited resources to combat human trafficking.
The Beyond Trafficking and Slavery project concludes with a call for solidarity
Social justice campaigners must collaborate across sectors to confront the far right, GI-TOC warns global safeguards are not keeping pace with organized crime, and two thirds of children in South Sudan are engaged in child labour.
KK Park evacuees face dire conditions at the Thai-Myanmar border
Observers question the motives behind the KK Park raid as freed workers arrive in Thailand, new U.S. trade agreements include labour rights provisions, and CSOs in Myanmar continue anti-trafficking efforts amid conflict and displacement.
Local partners’ insights help shape global research priorities
Freedom Collaborative gathers inputs from CSOs to inform global research efforts, a report identifies forced labour cases among Starbucks suppliers, and MEPs urge the EU to end support for Libyan security forces amid human rights abuses.
Our new report supports the CSO response to the trafficking of East Africans
Our latest report on forced criminality highlights the need for greater CSO coordination, the U.S. and UK launch sanctions against Cambodia’s cyber-scam industry, and anti-trafficking groups sue the Trump administration for undermining the TVPA.
Thailand reflects on successes and challenges at its annual TIP conference
Authorities, academics and CSOs convene to discuss Thailand’s trafficking response, the European Parliament agrees to further scale back corporate due diligence requirements, and German NGO data shows a notable increase in documented cases of trafficking.
Research highlights new challenges for anti-trafficking efforts in Vietnam
Forced criminality significantly transforms Vietnam’s trafficking landscape, a new service checks football contracts for trafficking red flags, and a recent study looks at the vulnerability to exploitation of Ukrainian refugees in Moldova.
The delayed U.S. TIP Report names Cambodia as a state sponsor of trafficking
The 2025 TIP Report highlights forced criminality and the state complicity that enables it, new data shows the impact of climate change on exploitation in Nepal, and courts increasingly hold companies accountable for supply chain abuses.
CSOs highlight new trafficking routes from East Africa into Myanmar’s scam centers
Traffickers find new routes into Myanmar to evade travel restrictions and heightened security, an investigation finds the U.S. has aggressively rolled back its anti-trafficking efforts, and experts mark 20 years of the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.
EHAAT practitioners tackle systemic barriers to improve survivor outcomes
East African CSOs confront the poverty and legal gaps that drive re-trafficking, human rights groups say the EU’s new deportation proposal focuses on punishment not protection, and experts urge Pakistan to protect children from trafficking disguised as adoption.
Cyber Scam Monitor maps Cambodia’s scamming compounds amid new U.S. sanctions
New research spotlights the ongoing expansion of online scam compounds in Southeast Asia, a post-Brexit reduction in seafood import checks risks letting forced labour products into the UK, and a new U.S. network aims to connect trafficking survivors with free legal support.