Cyber slavery rings are growing across the region, trapping young jobseekers in brutal scam compounds — and fueling a global ...

The rapid increase in rare earth mining in Kachin State, Myanmar, is causing severe environmental degradation and health ...

“Myanmar’s military junta still invokes fear, even in the wake of a horrific natural disaster that killed and injured thousands,” said Bryony Lau, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

SLAVE labor fueled the growth of mercantilism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Colonies in Asia and Africa were not only ...

An investigation by Indonesia's National Police (Polri), launched following the repatriation of a human trafficking victim ...

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A group of South Africans is trapped in Thailand after being lured by job scams, leading to their trafficking by organised ...

Myanmar's government under Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has used repressive laws to prosecute peaceful critics, dashing hopes that its first democratic leader in decades would safeguard free ...

LONDON (AP) – The president of Myanmar pledged Monday to release all political prisoners in his country by the end of the year as he visited Britain for the first time.

Thailand has received 260 human trafficking victims, more than half of them Ethiopians, from Myanmar, its army said on Thursday, in a massive repatriation that comes amid a mounting crackdown on ...

The Thai government should conduct effective investigations into how a group of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were found dead and injured on Thai soil on October 17, 2024.

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, head of the military council, inspects officers during a parade to commemorate Myanmar’s 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 27, 2023.