human trafficking

Illegal Migration: 495 foreigners in country’s jail

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said 495 people have so far been arrested for illegal migration from neighbouring countries.
Malaysia begins inquiry into 2015 discovery of mass graves

Malaysia begins a public inquiry into the discovery of mass graves and suspected human trafficking camps in the jungles near its border with Thailand, which prompted a regional crisis in 2015, and accusations over obstruction of justice.
Justice obstructed

Law enforcers had been nonchalant for years when thousands of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis were facing heinous crimes, including murders and burial in mass graves, in the bordering hilly regions of Thailand and Malaysia.
Human Trafficking: Rohingyas faced horrific crimes

A transnational human-trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity in Malaysia and Thailand against the Rohingya from 2012 to 2015, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and Fortify Rights, a nongovernment rights body, have found in a six-year investigation.
Human trafficking: 4 displaced Myanmar women rescued in Dhaka, 2 held

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have rescued four displaced Myanmar nationals and detained two alleged members of a human trafficking gang in Dhaka.
Tortured in Libya

Mominur Islam had paid Tk 3 lakh to some manpower brokers in Naogaon to go to Malaysia as a worker.
Bangladesh sets sights on recruitment brokers to curb abuse, trafficking

Bangladesh is planning to sideline unscrupulous recruitment brokers who dupe or exploit workers they send abroad by compiling a list of certified agents as record numbers of its citizens spend large sums of money to secure jobs overseas.
Rab rescues 10 Rohingyas in Malaysia-bound boat

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday rescued 10 Rohingya refugees and detained an alleged human trafficker in a Malaysia-bound boat in the Bay of Bengal.
Mobile court busts travel agency, jails 5

A mobile court on Sunday sealed off a travel agency in the capital's Motijheel and sentenced its owner along with four of his employees
Malaysia-Bound Rohingyas: 33 rescued from trawler in Bay

Bangladesh's coast guard rescued 33 Rohingya and detained six alleged human traffickers from a fishing trawler headed for Malaysia in the Bay of Bengal, an official said Wednesday.
Human Trafficking: 65 Bangladeshi workers rescued in Malaysia

Malaysian immigration police have rescued 65 Bangladeshi workers, believed to be victims of human trafficking, from the dormitory of a foreign worker recruitment company in Bandar Baru Nilai and arrested two Malaysians over the incident.
Human Trafficking to Malaysia: CID arrests 'kingpin'

The CID on Sunday arrested the alleged godfather of a human trafficking ring that ran boats to carry people from Bangladesh to Malaysia.
Pathetically low conviction rate of traffickers

We are quite dismayed to know that between February 2012 and June 2018, despite a recorded number of 4,152 cases of human trafficking, only 25 people have been convicted.
Recognise the extent and seriousness of human trafficking

Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall victim to traffickers in their own countries and abroad. Despite seldom making the headlines, trafficking in persons also remains one of the biggest challenges for national security and law enforcement agencies throughout world—as the United Nations explained, “every country in the world is affected by human trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit, or destination for victims.”
Ensuring labour rights can tackle human trafficking

Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year on counter trafficking efforts, mostly on investigation and criminal prosecution, raids to "rescue" irregular migrants and sex workers who are thought to be potential victims and trainings to raise awareness among those who might possibly experience or encounter human trafficking.
Asia's trafficking survivors dial in for justice

When Neha Maldar testifies against the traffickers who enslaved her as a sex worker in India, she spoke about the safety of her own country, Bangladesh, via video conferencing, a technology that could revolutionise the pursuit of justice in such cases.
Investigation follows traffickers to Bangladesh

In the middle of a bustling town in Bangladesh, two R.AGE undercover journalists hide in a van, listening in as one human trafficker after another sold their lies.
Malaysia plans special court on human trafficking as cases soar

Malaysia is setting up a special court to tackle rising numbers of human trafficking cases, in a move welcomed by campaigners who says it would help deliver justice to victims.
Trafficking: 600 KL airport staff transferred

Authorities transfer some 600 immigration staff out of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) station after some of them were suspected of being involved in the smuggling in of Bangladeshis.
Human trafficking bid foiled in Teknaf

Bangladesh police arrested an alleged human trafficker and intercepted two Rohingya refugees preparing to board a boat for Malaysia, officials said yesterday.
Bangladesh to Malaysia: A new way to student trafficking

In this second part video of a documentary series, Malaysian journalists go undercover to experience the desperate living conditions of migrant workers mostly from Bangladesh in Malaysia. It shows how an international human trafficking ring uses private colleges in Malaysia to exploit young Bangladeshis.
Horrors of human trafficking

The horrific exploitation of human beings by traffickers, as detailed in a report published by this newspaper yesterday, calls for increased vigilance against this menace.
Bangladesh to Malaysia: Inside student trafficking trade

Thousands of young Bangladeshis are trafficked to Malaysia through obscure private colleges and their unscrupulous “agents”.
Human Trafficking Cases: Conviction rate keeps falling

Prosecutions over human trafficking related cases in the country have been reducing each year and came down alarmingly last year mainly because of faulty case filings, inappropriate victim identification and lack of allegations raised by victims.
Human Trafficking from Bangladesh: Kingpins remain unpunished

In the last five years, as many as 2,733 people have been rescued from the clutches of human traffickers in Cox's Bazar. And 242 cases were filed against some 1,355 people over the incidents. However, not a single one has been disposed of.
‘Tribunal can speed up trials against human traffickers’

The government needs to establish a separate tribunal for speeding up trials to combat human trafficking.
Migrants' woes

More than a thousand families in Pakoria union of Tangail faced deception at different stages when they did send or tried to send at
Bangladesh human trafficking situation worsens

The biggest problem with trafficking from Bangladesh is of course the inability to successfully address the issue of high recruitment fees which leads to victims becoming entrapped into bonded labour. The problems are multifarious and require political will to rectify the systemic faults that exist. Unless we start making some changes, Bangladesh's position is not likely to see improvement in the next year's report.
US Trafficking in Persons Report: Efforts on probe, trial inadequate

Bangladesh fared poorly in fighting human trafficking in 2016, mainly due to poor investigation and prosecution, according to a report of the US State Department.
Probe deaths in immigration detention centres: Rights body to Malaysia

Human rights body Fortify Rights has demanded Malaysia to investigate deaths in its immigration detention centres without delay and re-open an investigation into the human trafficking of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and Bangladeshis in recent years.