Despite increasing efforts by the Singapore Government in prosecuting and convicting more traffickers and providing protective services to victims, Singapore continues to remain on Tier 2 in the 2017 Trafficking In Persons Report, showing the country does not fully...
An Australian supporter, Naomi Nixon shares her personal experience meeting survivors of trafficking and abuse. Relocating to Singapore six years ago with my husband and three young children has turned out to be a wonderful move for our family. Singapore has...
A highly organised crime amongst a deeply woven web of intricate networks and syndicates, traffickers employ sophisticated methods making it difficult to detect human trafficking. Gone are the days where victims are shipped across borders in packed crates. Today,...
In February 2017, Channel News Asia published an article on sentencing of a man who had exploited more than 100 foreign workers. These workers were pressured into falsely declaring and accepting lower salaries than was promised on their work passes – if they refused...
But all she got in return was deception and anguish. With the passing of her mother in 2008, the responsibility of caring for her younger brother fell on Lilis when her father and three elder sisters expected her of it. As a young teenager, she was struggling to even...