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Sex Trafficking
Rescue: A Church Speaks Up and A Minor is Freed From Sexual Exploitation
On June 25, the Dominican National Police’s Anti-Trafficking Department, in coordination with the Anti-Trafficking Specialized Prosecutor Office,...
June 30
Guatemalan Public Ministry and IJM Leveraging the Power of Data to Protect Women and Children from Violence
GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA – On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2019,
the Guatemalan Public Ministry (MP by its name in Spanish) and its Secretariat for...
June 13
Slavery
Media Report Leads to Rescue of 150 from a Garment Factory
Ever since India’s COVID-19 lockdown began, the world has been rattled by the stories of millions of migrant laborers stranded far from their homes...
June 04
Sex Trafficking
Rescue Operation Amid COVID-19: Six Rescued. Five Arrested.
A minor and five adult women are now free from sexual exploitation after a successful rescue operation on May 23rd. As the sun rose for a new day in...
June 03
Slavery
Double Operation Frees 526 from Two Brick Kilns
On Monday, IJM and our grassroots partners supported a critical rescue operation freeing 526 people who had been trapped at two abusive brick kilns...
June 03
Slavery
Girl Pulled Out of School and Forced to Process Fish Rescued Along with Two Other Boys
ACCRA, GHANA – In May, Ghanaian police, the Department of Social Welfare and IJM conducted an operation to rescue three children, two boys and one...
June 01
Labor Trafficking
Arrest of a Trafficker After Three Years On the Run from Justice
In May 2017, the IJM Cambodia team watched as the panel of three trial judges found three accused persons guilty under the anti-trafficking law for...
May 31
Slavery
64 Children Among Hundreds Rescued at Brick Kiln During Lockdown
Earlier this week, IJM assisted local authorities in rescuing 281 people from bonded labor at a massive brick kiln. This included 64 children of all...
May 29
Slavery
Urgent Rescue of 360 People Sparks Mass Exodus from Brick Kilns
This week, IJM helped Indian law enforcement rescue 360 people from bonded labor at a notoriously brutal brick kiln—which then led to the release of...
May 22