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Slavery
Rescues Ensure These Children Won’t Make Bricks Anymore
Two back-to-back rescue operations on Wednesday morning have brought freedom to 10 people once trapped in modern slavery, including three children...
March 27
Online Sexual Exploitation of Children
Four days. Three operations. Sixteen Children Now Safe.
Armed with a search warrant, officers from the Philippine National Police intended only to look through 71-year-old Herman Arnett Ross’s Angeles City...
February 21
Slavery
Trafficked Children Found Hidden Under Bed During Rescue in Ghana
The Ghana Police Service and Ghana Department of Social Welfare with assistance from International Justice Mission rescued six trafficked children...
February 05
Online Sexual Exploitation of Children
7-year-old’s mother and grandmother convicted for Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC)
ILIGAN CITY: On Friday morning, two women traffickers were convicted for sexually exploiting children online. Their names are withheld due to their...
January 29
Online Sexual Exploitation of Children
Cebu City Court Sentences Online Trafficker to 16 Years in Prison
CEBU CITY – A 56-year-old woman pled guilty to trafficking her own daughter into online sexual exploitation in 2017.
Around 4 p.m. on January 28,...
January 28
Slavery
12,000 Survivors Write to Indian PM on New Anti-Trafficking Bill
Meera looked tiny behind the large wooden podium—bundled in her pink sweater and scarf, unrehearsed, and using a microphone for one of the first...
January 21
Slavery
Urgent Rescue: 52 Locked in Shed, Abused - Now Free
IJM supported local authorities in an urgent rescue operation this week in southern India, freeing 52 enslaved women, men and children from...
December 24
Police Abuse of Power
Senior Police Officer Convicted of Murder for the First Time in Kenyan History
A senior police officer was convicted today after he was found guilty of murder in a high-profile case of police abuse in Kenya. Formerly the Officer...
December 14
Online Sexual Exploitation of Children
Five Children Under 11 Rescued as Mother is Arrested
ILIGAN CITY, PHILIPPINES— This week, diligent investigations and more than a month of surveillance led police to rescue five children—all under the...
December 07