MANILA, Philippines –  Many Asian and African women working as domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates say their employers beat them with sticks or cables, punched and slapped them, and there’s little they can do because they’re excluded from the country’s labor law protections, a rights group said Thursday. The abuse complaints are rampant […]

Fear of being branded racist allowed 16 years of ‘appalling’ sexual abuse by Asian gangs of at least 1,400 children in one town, an inquiry found. Council officials and social workers ‘tiptoed’ around the fact that ‘by far the majority’ of the victims – who were as young as 11 – were white, according to the […]

In 2013, the number of human trafficking cases reported in Bolivia was more than 10 times higher than nine years ago, raising questions as to whether this represents a growth in criminal activity or an increase in the reporting of the crime. Statistics by the Bolivian police show that in 2005 only 35 trafficking cases […]