MODERN-DAY slavery remains one of the most shameful stains on our collective humanity. Despite commendable strides in economic and human development, Bangladesh continues to face a grave challenge in the form of labour trafficking. Each year, thousands of Bangladeshi men, women and children are ensnared by false promises, deceptive recruiters...
Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh rescued 14 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims from traffickers in the Uttar Lombori area of Teknaf Sadar union in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Saturday night.
The Border Guard Bangladesh on Thursday arrested an Indian national while trafficking two Bangladeshi women and a child to India through Maheshpur border in Jhenaidah district, said a BGB press release in Dhaka on Friday.
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion arrested the suspected ringleader of a Libya-based human trafficking gang at Raninagar upazila in Naogaon Thursday night.
Home adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (retired) on Sunday categorically said that Bangladesh remained steadfast in its commitment to prevent human trafficking...
Eighteen Bangladeshi human trafficking victims returned home from Myanmar early Wednesday...
Members of the criminal investigation department of police have arrested a member of a human trafficking gang at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka...
Bangladesh Navy in a joint operation at Baharchhara union of Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar detained 20 people, including human trafficking victims and Rohingyas, on Tuesday...
Child rights activists at a workshop on Saturday demanded active involvement of families and communities to prevent child trafficking.
Police have arrested dozens of people in a cross-border crackdown against people-smuggling gangs exploiting free movement between the UK and Ireland, Britain鈥檚 interior ministry said Thursday.
French authorities arrested 26 people and seized 11 million euros ($12 million) as they smashed a migrant trafficking ring suspected of bringing several thousand people from South Asia into...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion foiled a human trafficking bid and rescued 31 people, including 22 children, from the hilly area of Teknaf in Cox鈥檚 Bazar early Monday while trafficking them to Malaysia.
Migrants, refugees and human trafficking victims face alarming treatment in Tunisia, United Nations experts warned on Monday...
The immigration department of Malaysia had arrested 21 Bangladesh nationals in a raid against human trafficking in Maluri, Kuala Lumpur, reported Malaysian news agency Bernama on Sunday.
A fugitive former mayor in the Philippines accused of human trafficking and links to Chinese organised crime has been arrested in Indonesia, according to Philippine authorities who are seeking her extradition...
A case was filed against former Expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment minister Imran Ahmad, former senior secretary Ahmed Munirus Saleheen and 101 others over human trafficking and embezzlement of Tk 24,000 crore...
THE detention of three Bangladeshis and four Indians, including a surgeon, by the Delhi police in the past week for illegal trafficking in organs, suggests that the authorities of both the countries have failed to stop transnational illegal organ trade that has continued for years. The detained surgeon of the Delhi-based Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals...
A Rangamati court on Thursday sent three people to jail after they were arrested on Wednesday night over alleged involvement in trafficking a woman from Bangladesh鈥檚 Chattogram Hill Tracts to China....
Trafficking in persons in and from Bangladesh continues amidst a lack of efforts on part of the authorities. Although the government claims to have taken special measures to stop human trafficking, incidents of internal and transnational trafficking in persons have continued, suggesting the inadequacy of the measures taken...
The Government of Bangladesh does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so as the country remains in the 鈥楾ier 2鈥� category, according to the US Department of State鈥檚 Trafficking in Persons Report 2024 published on Monday...
The Detective Branch of police said on Sunday that the chairman of Child and Old Age Care, Milton Samadder, used to cut off the fingers of children, including those with autism or learning disabilities, at his charity home in the name of surgery...
State minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat joined the first ministerial conference on drug trafficking and substance abuse in the Western Indian Ocean in Mauritius...