Human trafficking is a growing problem in Timor-Leste, but despite an increase in the number of potential victims identified, there has not been a single conviction. ........

Not less than 10,000 people, mostly children, are trafficked into the Northeast with a good number smuggled in from Bangladesh, Nepal and other South East Asian countries, surveys by NGOs reveal. ........

The problem of human trafficking has become a much more well-known phenomenon, especially after the tsunami hit South and Southeast Asia in December 2004. The media seized on the possibility of displaced and orphaned children being trafficked into forced sexual and labor situations, or being illegally adopted by Westerners........

The Royal Thai Government has today taken an important step forward in adopting a set of Guidelines that will help the authorities better respond to cases of trafficking for labour exploitation in the Kingdom .......

The United Nations has stressed on the need for strengthening laws in South Asia to protect child trafficking. Launching a report on Preventing and Responding to Child Trafficking in South Asia,.......

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. It shares porous borders with India and the resulting free flow of goods and people is used to conceal trafficking in drugs and human beings.There are multiple reports of high drug-related HIV sero-prevalence especially among IDUs in the Kathmandu valley (70%), .......

To stop the inhumane acts of human trafficking and immoral sex work; to rehabilitate the victims of such activity and to maintain the morality and proper conduct of the general public by unifying and updating the existing laws,........

Michele R. Decker, MPH Sex trafficking of girls and women is widespread across South Asia and is recognized as both a violent gender-based crime and major human rights violation.,........

In a statement issued on the eve of UN General Assembly debate on steps needed to stop trafficking, Equality Now urged the Indian government to take steps for early passage of amendments to the 1956 Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (ITPA), which would involve a crackdown on buyers of sex. The desired changes, it stressed, would be a positive step in stopping trafficking in women and children. ,........