A human trafficking survivor, Trisha Roy, shared with My Kolkata her own experience with the Swayam Siddha initiative for the last three years. “I was kidnapped by a racket in 2019 and trafficke...

A woman was rescued from a brothel in Pune in 2009 at the age of 15. The case dragged on for close to a decade but resulted in the acquittal of the accused in 2018. Her inability to visit the Pune cou...

An Indian girl, trafficked to Bangladesh and recovered by the police of that country, was repatriated on Tuesday after intervention by Calcutta High Court which asked the Centre for help to bring the ...

Active human intelligence network has helped Simdega police in Jharkhand to set a landmark in terms of rescuing 100 minor girls, women and boys from human traffickers in a span of only 16 months. &ld...

A group of trafficking survivors has written to chief minister Mamata Banerjee seeking her intervention in disbursal of compensation cleared by the state but pending because of lack of funds. The Jan...

Investigations are going on into the death of a family of four Indian nationals, including an infant, along the US-Canada border and into a larger human smuggling operation, as seven other Indians, be...

In a heartbreaking tragedy, a family of four, including a baby, all believed to be Indians, died from exposure to cold weather on the Canadian side of the border with the US in an apparent human smugg...

Human trafficking is the act of removing, transferring or transporting an individual from one place to another by means of force, fraud, coercion, deception, abduction or payment for the purpose of ex...

In a joint initiative undertaken by the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Calcutta and Bengal government’s women and children development and social welfare department, 21 Bangladeshi women a...

Makers of a documentary film on human trafficking hope to take it to schools and villages across Bengal to raise awareness about a scourge that makes hundreds of girls — and in some cases, boys ...