The Latest Breaking News from Trafficking

A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that authorities say shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed several people

Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, who co-founded the notorious drug trafficking organization Black Mafia Family, is serving out the remainder of his prison sentence in a residential reentry program in Miami

Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are asking a New York judge to force prosecutors to disclose the names of his accusers in his sex trafficking case

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested in September after a grand jury indicted him on federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering

An interview with sex work researcher Tara Burns.

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along. Hardly…

Doctors say proposals will make it difficult to reassure trafficking victims and asylum seekers ‘hospitals are safe places’

A federal appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May