Every day, thousands of people are trafficked — sold a dream of a better future, to only be presented with a grim reality of entrapment, slavery, and often sex work. With their passports withheld, their movements restricted, and subject to abuse, inhumane treatment and debt bondage, victims face dire prospects.
Most girls and women only manage to escape their traffickers a long time after their souls and bodies have been destroyed. The three women we recently rescued from the United Ar...
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Fatima Waziri-Azi is director general for the Nigerian National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons. Angus Thomas is founder of the Send Them Home and Hope Education Project.