Human Trafficking News and Updates
Advocacy and Leadership in Combating Newborn Baby Trafficking Seema Naidoo, Founder of the Hope to Heal Foundation, has made significant contributions to the fight against the trafficking of newborn babies in South Africa. As a prominent member of the Gauteng Trafficking in Persons Task Team, she has brought critical attention to the issue of the […]
Detention and Imminent Deportation Fourteen South African citizens who were detained in Thailand are set to be deported back to South Africa in the coming days. Chrispin Phiri, spokesperson for the Department of International Relations and Co-operation, confirmed this development and indicated that the necessary arrangements are underway to facilitate their return. Background of the […]
Joint Task Force Operation: High-Speed Chase Leads to Rescue of Trafficked Teens Overview of the Incident A coordinated joint task force was involved in a dramatic high-speed chase that led to the rescue of ten trafficked teenagers in Johannesburg. The operation culminated in the arrest of a 47-year-old foreign national suspected of human trafficking. Initial […]
Border Management Authority Intercepts Suspected Trafficking Victims The Border Management Authority (BMA) has successfully intervened in a suspected human trafficking operation at OR Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park. This action is part of the BMA’s ongoing efforts to combat human trafficking, irregular migration, and transnational organised crime, particularly as the festive season approaches and […]
Resignation Amid Scandal Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, previously a Member of Parliament representing the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, has stepped down from her position following a controversy that has garnered widespread attention. The MK party, founded by her father Jacob Zuma after his departure from the African National Congress, achieved notable success in the 2024 national elections […]
Jeffery Epstein, a convicted sex offender, died by allegedly hanging himself while awaiting trial for a Sex Trafficking Conspiracy case inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York in August 2019. Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, once a British Socialite and the daughter of the late Press Baron – Robert Maxwell, was a close […]
Human Trafficking is the most heinous crime, whereby criminals steal people’s freedom for profit. Trafficking in person robs people of their freedom and their human dignity. No country is immune to trafficking in persons. It is a global crisis affecting millions of people regardless of race, religion, or origin. Not many people know that minors […]
Human Trafficking a global and widespread crime, whereby criminals steal a person’s freedom for profit. It is a grave violation on a person’s human rights and egregious assault on the victim. The criminals behind this highly profitable business seize the opportunity created by the need or desire of people to escape not just poverty and […]
Human Trafficking is one of the fasted growing organised crimes in the world, affecting billions of lives and generating billions of dollars profit per annum. It is a serious crime and a grave violation of a person’s human rights and an egregious assault on its victims. Although Slavery was abolished in 18th Century, Modern-Day Slavery has […]
Businessman Raj Kundra, husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, was arrested on Monday by the Mumbai police in a case related to the alleged creation of pornographic films and streaming them through a mobile app called “Hotshots”. Raj Kundra and his brother-in-law Pradeep Bakshi are the alleged masterminds of the international porn films racket perpetrated […]
Ruben Andre Garcia, A porn actor and producer who recruited young women under false pretences to appear in videos for San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com was sentenced to 20 years in custody in connection with his pleas to federal sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges. He was amongst six others charged with filming pornographic scenes that prosecutors said […]
Seema Naidoo People are familiar of the slave trade many years ago but not many are aware that slavery to this day exists and in a much larger scale, whereby over 30 million people are trapped in modern-day slavery. Every year thousands more people are exploited by criminals, mainly women and children. Almost every country […]
The Justice Department building in Washington, DC. (CNN)A rescue operation in Virginia resulted in the recovery of 27 missing children, according to the US Department of Justice.Deputy US Marshals led the five-day effort dubbed “Operation Find Our Children.” They collaborated with the agency’s Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state […]
Ghislaine Maxwell said in a 2016 deposition that a woman’s account of engaging in sexual activity with Prince Andrew inside a bathtub in her home couldn’t be true because “the tub is too small,” according to a transcript released Thursday. Maxwell dodged questions about whether Prince Andrew ever had sex with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, but […]
Lack of jobs and poor living conditions, minors, and young people from surrounding countries, desperate for a better life, accept job offers without doing any research. They leave home, in hope of a better life, and living conditions. Earning an income, means that they can send money back home for their loved ones. They are […]
Hundreds of documents and transcripts from a 2015 defamation lawsuit against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell have been unsealed by a judge. They detail her alleged role in running a sex trafficking ring with Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman joined CBSN to explain what the documents said and how they can be used […]
By Seema Naidoo To mark World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on 30 July, Hope to Heal Foundation invited a few Civil Society Workers, from the Gauteng Province to be interviewed outside the Sandton Police Station (Salvation Army, Love Justice, ACT Africa). Due to social distancing, we are unable to have mass gathering thus we limited […]
By: Ms Seema Naidoo Founder & CEO Hope to Heal Foundation & Publication Ghislaine Maxwell, 58-year-old British Socialite, daughter of the late British media Mogul Robert Maxwell and former girlfriend of The late Sex Offender, Jeffery Epstein, was arrested on the 2 July 2020 by the FBI on her 156 – acre Estate, located at […]
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, Sarah Ransome, says Epstein raped her on his private Caribbean island. She says Epstein had help from two women who were close to him. Ransome, who spoke with “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason, is featured in the Netflix documentary series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.”
At least 629 girls and women sold to Chinese men in a period of two years, AP reports quoting Pakistani investigators. More than 600 poor Pakistani girls and women were sold as brides to Chinese men over a period of nearly two years, according to investigations by authorities in the South Asian nation of 200 million people. A list […]