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How a Social Media Job Ad Led to Human Trafficking: Grace’s Story
At 17, a TikTok job offer should have been harmless. Instead, it led Grace into trafficking. Grace grew up in a loving family in Thailand. During a school break, she saw a job advertisement on TikTok. It sounded easy. Just reply to messages, earn quick money, no...
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Animal Bank Builds Families Economic Resilience in Vietnam
In uplifting households and helping families to gain economic independence, Hagar Vietnam provides training in husbandry techniques. The animal bank project teaches beneficiaries to manage the animals, in raising, breeding and disease prevention. The training includes...
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When Being A Woman Feels Like A Death Sentence
Afghanistan tops the world as the most dangerous country for women. Banned from schools, national parks, bath houses, gyms, and sacked and barred from working in government jobs and NGOs, the oppression women and girls face continue to intensify as they find...
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Crisis at the Thailand-Cambodia Border
7 August 2025 Thousands Flee Bomb Attacks. Women and Children at Risk. The recent deadly conflict along the Thailand–Cambodia border has triggered a humanitarian crisis of devastating scale. In just days, hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers and their...
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HAGAR Accelerates Justice for Trafficking Victims in Thailand
Serving vulnerable women and children who have suffered extreme human rights abuses, HAGAR’s work began in Cambodia in 1994 and has since grown to care for this same community in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Singapore and the Solomon Islands. In April 2023, the...
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Devastating Earthquake in Paktika Kills Thousands
6.1 magnitude earthquake in Paktika kills thousands. HAGAR has been providing shelter, food, trauma counselling to many children who have become orphans overnight as they grieve the loss of families and siblings.
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30 Years On: Brokenness Repurposed for Greatness
On 19 December 2023 in Phnom Penh, we witnessed the biggest reunion in HAGAR’s 3-decades history of working with survivors of human trafficking, slavery and abuse. Nearly 100 former Hagar beneficiaries reunited with Hagar staff – their previous counsellors, teachers,...
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The Heart of the CSR Matter
Widely practiced by modern business to contribute to social welfare beyond maximising profits, at HAGAR, we are grateful for the privilege of receiving CSR support from a growing number of caring corporates and businesses through the years. This support often comes in...
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The Race against Slavery: 40.3 Freedom Race 2022
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." – Vincent, 40.3 Freedom Race supporterBetween 4 to 13 November 2022 across Singapore, Asia and the UK, hundreds of individuals gathered in their own communities to tackle their...
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