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May 26, 2017

Grandma Frances is tiny, and very thin, with a shock of white hair and brown eyes that are always smiling, even when she isn’t. Those eyes, though, have seen a lot.

Conflict & Justice

Sister Rosemary is a one-woman army in the fight against trafficking

PRI's The World

May 24, 2017

For 15 years, Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe has been picking up the broken pieces of girls' lives and putting them back together. She's helped thousands of girls in Uganda — now she's helping girls fleeing civil war in South Sudan.

Conflict & Justice

AWL examines the road out of sex trafficking, from Uganda, India, Brazil and beyond

PRI's The World

May 18, 2017

Trafficking is now the third-largest international criminal activity, with $32 billion annually in profit, and millions of people affected. And it's growing. Across Women's Lives tells this story by giving voice to the women themselves in a 12-part, global multimedia series that starts May 18.

Conflict & Justice

How do you judge a child soldier?

PRI's The World

August 04, 2017

More than 30,000 children were kidnapped during Uganda's civil war, and many were forced to become child soldiers. Today, the country grapples with a complicated question: how to judge their atrocities.

Conflict & Justice

This woman says she was trafficked by a diplomat. And it happens all the time.

PRI's The World

July 24, 2017

Fainess Lipenga came to the US to work as a maid for a diplomat from Malawi, but she says she was treated more like a slave. Her boss, covered by diplomatic immunity, never faced the consequences.

Conflict & Justice

A former trafficking victim gets her life back in southern Mexico

PRI's The World

June 30, 2017

“He was blackmailing me,” she says, “and I was afraid he would take my daughter away.”

Business, Economics and Jobs

She thought she was going to be a teacher in Kuwait — instead she was trafficked

PRI's The World

May 25, 2017

When this Ugandan teacher got a new job in Kuwait, she was thrilled. But when she arrived, her passport was taken from her — and she was given a mop.

Conflict & Justice

For India's sex trafficking victims, family members often bear part of the blame

PRI's The World

May 24, 2017

Sex trafficking affects 16 million people in India at any given time. Often, a family member is responsible for their circumstances, but getting away is complicated.

Conflict & Justice

Uganda's abducted kids try to get their lives back to normal

PRI's The World

May 23, 2017

During Uganda's armed conflict, tens of thousands of children were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army. Now they are adults, and many of them have returned. But after spending formative years in the wilderness — can they fully come back?

Business, Economics and Jobs

Witchcraft can be the toughest chain to break for Nigerian women looking to escape slavery

PRI's The World

May 22, 2017

Despite hundreds of millions spent combatting sex trafficking, many Nigerian women say it is fear of a demonic spell that keeps them enslaved.

Conflict & Justice

Her family's business was trafficking. But she broke free.

PRI's The World

May 22, 2017

"The sunglasses will hide your fear." That's the advice Halimot was given by her aunt — a boss in the booming sex-trafficking industry between Nigeria and Europe.

Conflict & Justice

On Facebook, Nigerian victims of sex trafficking often present their life as far more glamorous than it is

PRI's The World

May 19, 2017

Facebook may be one reason why the numbers of Nigerian women trafficked into Europe is growing. Many prostitutes hide the realities of their life, and present only a glamorous side for friends and family back home.

Business, Economics and Jobs

How a whisper can help fight labor trafficking in Brazil

PRI's The World

May 19, 2017

She was forced to work in a sweatshop — now she runs her own shop and helps other women avoid being trafficked.

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It took a lifetime for this Queens grandma to open up about her experience being trafficked for sex

Sister Rosemary is a one-woman army in the fight against trafficking

AWL examines the road out of sex trafficking, from Uganda, India, Brazil and beyond

How do you judge a child soldier?

This woman says she was trafficked by a diplomat. And it happens all the time.

A former trafficking victim gets her life back in southern Mexico

She thought she was going to be a teacher in Kuwait — instead she was trafficked

For India's sex trafficking victims, family members often bear part of the blame

Uganda's abducted kids try to get their lives back to normal

Witchcraft can be the toughest chain to break for Nigerian women looking to escape slavery

Her family's business was trafficking. But she broke free.

On Facebook, Nigerian victims of sex trafficking often present their life as far more glamorous than it is

How a whisper can help fight labor trafficking in Brazil