Tag: human trafficking

• They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.

  September 22, 2025

  A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands to scam strangers online… more ›

• History Extra podcast: Slavery on the medieval Silk Road

  September 15, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/8ycPbT6 Slavery was a grim but omnipresent reality across the Silk Road during the Middle Ages. Speaking to Emily Briffett, Claire Taylor unpacks the complex networks of enslavement that… more ›

• Smugglers deploy ‘taxi boats’ to collect migrants off the French coast

  June 18, 2025

  They are being launched from new sites and in new ways – out of reach of French police. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd1l6p8vw9o more ›

• Newsmagazine Shows

  June 22, 2015

  Newsmagazine Shows Sometimes I wonder if I would do it again. That’s the funny thing about life. Experience comes in random, sporadic servings. It’s only years later that the story… more ›