At least 40 million people were living as slaves in forced labour and forced marriages last year, according to new global slavery statistics. The fresh data, which has been published in... read more →
Armed police patrols have been stepped up across the UK in the wake of a terrorist bomb attack on a London Underground train on Friday morning. Britain’s terror threat was... read more →
More than three-quarters (77%) of children and young people travelling along Mediterranean migrant routes have reported direct experiences of abuse, exploitation and practices which may amount to human trafficking, according... read more →
An investigation conducted by a group of European newspapers has revealed that Azerbaijan's ruling elite ran a secret €2.5 billion slush fund to pay bribes to politicians and make luxury... read more →
An award-winning Russian director known for staging productions that are critical of the Kremlin has been arrested in Saint Petersburg on suspicion of embezzling at least 68 million roubles (€860,000).... read more →
A naval task force led by France and Britain has seized drugs worth an estimated £400 million (€436 million) from smugglers in the Gulf and Indian Ocean. The five-month multinational... read more →
Police in Spain have smashed a people smuggling network that used jet skis to traffic migrants across the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco. The gang, which is said to have... read more →
People smuggling gangs are offering migrants the opportunity to be trafficked from Morocco to Spain by toy dinghy or jet ski, the EU’s border protection agency has warned. Frontex said... read more →
Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube has announced a new initiative to prevent people from viewing extremist material on its platform. The experimental effort sees users searching for “violent extremist propaganda”... read more →
The mayor of Catania has said a ship chartered by a group of alt-right millennial activists intent on stopping migrants crossing the Mediterranean is not welcome to dock in the... read more →
