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Dominican Republic Rescue Operation Amid COVID-19: Six Rescued. Five Sex Traffickers Arrested.
One teenage girl and five adult women are now free from sexual exploitation after a successful rescue operation on May 23rd. As the sun rose for a new day in lockdown on the Caribbean Island, local officials from the Specialized Forces of Touristic Security (CESTUR), National Police, and the Prosecutor’s office, assisted by IJM, arrested five suspects: three American Citizens, a Haitian National and a Dominican. -
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Survivor Helps Police Free 2 Teenage Girls from Sex Trafficking Ring
Last month, IJM supported police from two states as they worked together to bring to safety two minor girls from a cross-country sex trafficking ring. -
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IJM Opens First Anti-Trafficking Program in Central and Eastern Europe
International Justice Mission has launched its first anti-trafficking program in Central and Eastern Europe with a team based in Bucharest, Romania, focused on building partnerships and contributing to combating human trafficking. -
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Suspected Trafficker Arrested for Selling Five Victims in Her Home
Last month, IJM supported Mumbai authorities in rescuing five girls and young women from a small, cluttered apartment where they were being repeatedly sold for sex. Police have also arrested a 35-year-old woman suspected of exploiting these victims to a network of private customers. -
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Police and IJM Stop Traffickers from Selling a 15-Year-Old Girl
IJM assisted Kolkata’s anti-trafficking police on a successful rescue operation on Tuesday, 16 July. They freed one 15-year-old girl from a year of exploitation and from much longer patterns of abuse. -
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Courts Tell Survivor Nasima: You Matter
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German Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Sexually Exploiting Two Minors in the Dominican Republic
On 3rd April 3, a 75- year old German citizen was found guilty of trafficking, physical and psychological abuse, and sexual exploitation of two Haitian sisters who live in the Dominican Republic. -
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A Mother’s Desperate Plea Mobilises Police to Free 13-year old Daughter and Three Other Minors
After filing a complaint and persistently reaching out to local authorities, a mother’s desperate plea for help was heard. On 2nd February, a Dominican prosecutor and the national anti-trafficking unit (ATD), with International Justice Mission’s assistance, led a rescue operation to bring her 13-year old daughter to safety. -
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School Girls Brought to Safety from Private Sex Trafficking Network in Kolkata
On Monday morning, 16-year-old Mona* agreed to skip school again at her mother’s request. As she had done many times before, she followed her mother to a flat in south Kolkata and was ready to 'work' to support her family—which meant being forced to sell sex to private customers. -
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Criminal Network that Sold Hundreds of Girls Begins to Topple
Mumbai police and the IJM team have secured a much-awaited breakthrough in the fight against sex trafficking this autumn. -
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Six Women Brought to Safety From Sexual Exploitation
After six months of investigations, IJM supported a rescue operation led by the Dominican Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) that brought freedom to five girls (ages 14 -17) and a young woman from a bar just outside of Santo Domingo. -
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Six Freed from Mumbai Brothel amid a Busy Festival Season
On Saturday, IJM staff supported senior anti-human trafficking police on a rescue operation to free six girls and young women from exploitation in a notorious red-light district.