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A court in Italy has sentenced the human trafficker who helped cause the catastrophic 2013 shipwreck near Lampedusa in which...

The number of people who have been displaced worldwide reached an all-time high in 2014, according to the UN Refugee Agency...

By TT News Agency, Sweden The goal of the United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is to protect the rights of children.Yet...

President of Guatemala Otto Pérez has sacked a clutch of senior ministers as a major political crisis deepened over...

By Michael Mattson World leaders continue the search for solutions this week to a human trafficking crisis in the...

Up to 700 migrants were killed when their boat capsized late on Saturday night in what has been called the Mediterranean’s...

Europol, the European Union's Netherlands-based police agency,launcheda new initiative to tackle human trafficking gangs...

Viktor Yanukovych, the disgraced former president of Ukraine, says he will return to Ukraine if the opportunity arises.

An enormous cache of 60,000 leaked files from British bank HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm has revealed that the bank...

The Turkish Parliament voted on Jan. 20 to maintain the immunity of four former ministers facing charges of corruption.

A special parliamentary commission voted in Turkey today, Jan. 5,not to pursue prosecutions against four former ministers of...

Experts say East Timor is facing the biggest threat to its stability since the 2006 crisis after its prime minister banned...