THERE WAS nothing obviously amiss, even when inspectors began opening the tubs of passion-fruit pulp about to be shipped out of Callao port in Peru. A chemical test for illicit substances did not ...

I was a teenager when I was abducted and trafficked across the United States and into Canada. The people who exploited me used both physical violence and psychological control. I was moved repeatedly, ...

On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled "America Loves Cocaine Again—Mexico's New Drug King Cashes In." It's a detailed account of the return of cocaine amid a recent drop in ...

This week, we analyze the US’s anti-drug strategy in South America, a Sinaloa Cartel boss’s guilty plea, and the pardoning of a former Honduran president from his cocaine conviction. Transcript ...

In new research published today, crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis found that crypto-funded transactions for human trafficking—largely forced laborers trapped in compounds across Southeast Asia and ...

COVID-19 has meant unprecedented setbacks in the efforts to combat human trafficking. According to a September 2021 report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 31 million people have been ...

The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Binta Adamu Bello, has revealed some of the tactics deployed by human traffickers to lure victims.

Does answering a prostitution ad make a man a sex trafficker? The highest court in Massachusetts says no, in a ruling that represents a win for both common sense and civil liberties. Five of the men ...