Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Human trafficking has become a global problem. Millions of people become victims through entrapment and exploitation. In this in-depth series, RFA reporters go into the heart of Asia's human trafficking business to document cases of this form of modern slavery.

  • Slavery at Sea
    Drawings by Prum Vannak - Vannak is a Cambodian survivor of human trafficking. His story is one of extreme poverty and what people do to take care of their families. Most of them don't live to tell us their stories. Vannak is part of a lucky few.
    13 June 2012, 12:00 am
  • A Cameraman's Journal
    24 million people are enslaved in Asia. RFA traveled to faraway places to expose slavery. This journal reveals the private thoughts of the cameraman. He is an experienced professional. Yet what he saw during this assignment "changed him forever."
    21 March 2012, 12:00 am
  • 7 minutes 28 seconds
    New Roads to Trafficking
    In remote parts of Southeast Asia new roads are seen as a sign of prosperity. But for people living there they often open pathways to exploitation.
    21 February 2012, 12:00 am
  • 8 minutes 15 seconds
    Beyond Borders
    Cambodian men and boys in search of work fall prey to the dark world of international fishing.
    3 February 2012, 12:00 am
  • 7 minutes 10 seconds
    China's Trade in Babies
    Between a strong demand from overseas adoptive parents and the willingness of Chinese families to abandon their child - particularly if they are girls - a lucrative market is striving.
    13 January 2012, 12:00 am
  • 9 minutes 35 seconds
    In Search of Lost Children
    Our reporters join Chinese parents looking for their abducted children. The parents try to recruit the help of the police, only to find that law enforcement agents are accomplices.
    16 November 2011, 12:00 am
  • 9 minutes 44 seconds
    North Korean Mothers
    I wanted to feed them warm rice,' says a North Korean woman who though she was going to get a job by defecting to China. Instead she was forcibly married to an 'unmarriageable' man.
    10 November 2011, 12:00 am
  • 9 minutes 2 seconds
    Traffickers Target Refugee Camps
    In the second part of a series on human trafficking and modern slavery, our reporters speak to Burmese residents of a refugee camp in Thailand. Many of these refugees are forced to take dangerous work through traffickers to feed their families.
    30 September 2011, 12:00 am
  • 7 minutes 55 seconds
    The Child Soldiers of Burma
    In a new series on human trafficking and modern slavery, our reporters speak to young survivors of forced and brutal military service inside Burma. For these lucky few who escape, the ordeal is not over.
    3 August 2011, 12:00 am
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