Human Trafficking Act
Human trafficking rife, conviction rare
Only one person was convicted in a human trafficking case in Bangladesh in 2020, according to a UN report highlighting the concern over low convictions of the crime.
27 January 2023
The Iranian nightmare
Trafficking syndicate, with help of 2 Dhaka airport staffers, confine, torture Bangladeshi migrants, reveals CID
26 January 2023
Fighting human trafficking
Despite the continuous hue and cry about human trafficking (in the media), very little has actually been done to fight the menace...
1 April 2016
Female human trafficker held in Teknaf
Law enforcers detain an alleged female human trafficker in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
6 February 2016
4 ‘Adamya Bangladesh’ officials get bail
A Dhaka court grants bail to four “Adamya Bangladesh” officials in a case filed under the Human Trafficking Act.
19 October 2015
A grave trafficking crisis
The 'discovery' of yet more mass graves along the heavily-forested Malaysia-Thailand border makes the case that the Southeast Asia human trafficking disaster is far from being over.
24 August 2015
To combat human trafficking
A series of news on human trafficking across the sea route of Cox's Bazar have been getting highlighted in national and international media in recent days.
15 June 2015
Should fortune-seekers be punished?
In 2012 the Parliament criminalised human trafficking by enacting the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act.
26 May 2015