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Human Trafficking News and Updates

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day – January 11

Seema Naidoo People are familiar of the slave trade many years ago but not many are aware that slavery to this day exists and in a much larger scale, whereby over 30 million people are trapped in modern-day slavery. Every year thousands more people are exploited by criminals, mainly women and children. Almost every country […]

US Marshals find 27 missing children in Virginia

The Justice Department building in Washington, DC. (CNN)A rescue operation in Virginia resulted in the recovery of 27 missing children, according to the US Department of Justice.Deputy US Marshals led the five-day effort dubbed “Operation Find Our Children.” They collaborated with the agency’s Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state […]

Jeffrey Epstein Case: Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition Goes Public | NBC New York

Ghislaine Maxwell said in a 2016 deposition that a woman’s account of engaging in sexual activity with Prince Andrew inside a bathtub in her home couldn’t be true because “the tub is too small,” according to a transcript released Thursday. Maxwell dodged questions about whether Prince Andrew ever had sex with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, but […]

Human Trafficking in South Africa COVID-19 and online prostitution

Lack of jobs and poor living conditions, minors, and young people from surrounding countries, desperate for a better life, accept job offers without doing any research. They leave home, in hope of a better life, and living conditions. Earning an income, means that they can send money back home for their loved ones. They are […]

Documents detail sex abuse allegations against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein

Hundreds of documents and transcripts from a 2015 defamation lawsuit against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell have been unsealed by a judge. They detail her alleged role in running a sex trafficking ring with Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman joined CBSN to explain what the documents said and how they can be used […]

International Human Trafficking Day 2020

By Seema Naidoo To mark World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on 30 July, Hope to Heal Foundation invited a few Civil Society Workers, from the Gauteng Province to be interviewed outside the Sandton Police Station (Salvation Army, Love Justice, ACT Africa). Due to social distancing, we are unable to have mass gathering thus we limited […]

Human Trafficking, The Madam and the Pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell, The Key Player in Epstein’s Sex-Trafficking Operation Arrested

By: Ms Seema Naidoo Founder & CEO Hope to Heal Foundation & Publication Ghislaine Maxwell, 58-year-old British Socialite, daughter of the late British media Mogul Robert Maxwell and former girlfriend of The late Sex Offender, Jeffery Epstein, was arrested on the 2 July 2020  by the FBI on her 156 – acre Estate, located at […]

Jeffrey Epstein accuser speaks out ahead of Netflix documentary release

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, Sarah Ransome, says Epstein raped her on his private Caribbean island. She says Epstein had help from two women who were close to him. Ransome, who spoke with “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason, is featured in the Netflix documentary series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.”

More than 600 Pakistani girls ‘sold as brides’ to China

At least 629 girls and women sold to Chinese men in a period of two years, AP reports quoting Pakistani investigators. More than 600 poor Pakistani girls and women were sold as brides to Chinese men over a period of nearly two years, according to investigations by authorities in the South Asian nation of 200 million people. A list […]

The Syrian women and girls sold into sexual slavery in Lebanon

Syria’s refugee crisis has shone a light on sex trafficking in Lebanon, where victims are often treated as criminals. by Daniela Sala Beirut, Lebanon – “How do I know most of the women working as prostitutes are controlled?” asked Paul, a volunteer for the Jesuits, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, before answering his own […]