Girls Rescued From Mumbai Brothel After Seven Years
For the past seven years, IJM (International Justice Mission) and other anti-trafficking organizations have been trying to rescue girls from one notorious brothel in a massive red-light district in Mumbai
273 Slaves Freed in India
In a stunning rescue operation that began yesterday and stretched into this morning, IJM helped local authorities rescue 273 people from lives of slavery in two brick factories
30 Slaves Rescued in India
After decades living and working in an abusive, inhumane catfish farm, more than 30 people were set free this week, including children and two pregnant women
The Rescued Becomes The Rescuer
Last month, IJM (International Justice Mission) Mumbai helped police rescue Zeenat* from a dark brothel with barred windows. Six cots filled the cramped room where girls were serially raped, side by side. The brothel’s customers paid less than $5 to have sex with a girl
Families Trapped in Slavery Rescued After 15 Years
Six children – as young as 4 years old – were forced to work alongside their parents, baking bricks under the hot sun and toiling into the night. The families said they worked seven days a week, and they earned about 50 cents a day – a pittance well below India’s minimum wage
Girls Rescued From Dark World of Human Trafficking
They arrested the owner and two other men who allegedly acted as pimps, bringing underage girls to the dingy lodge to be sold for sex, then whisking them away before there was any trace to follow the crime
Rescued From a Life of Slavery
IJM helped rescue ten people from slavery in a sawmill last week – including six children, the youngest only 7 years old. Many of the children had been born there, and some of the adults said they had been trapped there for 18 years
Rescue Operation Frees Young Women Sold For Sex
This weekend, a new day began for girls rescued from a small bar selling underage girls for sex on one of Pampanga’s main streets. IJM assisted the Philippine National Police with a rescue operation on Friday, November 16, 2012
Slaves Set Free in India; Rice Mill Owner Not Present
This week, IJM assisted government officials to rescue 16 children, women and men from a rice mill.
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