Traffickers

Adapted from the Channel 4 series The Hunt For Britain's Sex Traffickers, which aired last fall in the U.K., the documentary illustrates the tremendous challenges cops and reporters undertake when they seek to expose modern-day slavery.

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Britain's Long Fight Against Slavery Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism 2011

As Stead set out to do 123 years earlier, the documentarians who made The Hunt For Britain's Sex Traffickers seek to shock Britons as to the proximity and persistence of slavery.

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Britain's Long Fight Against Slavery Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism 2011

Traffickers often target impoverished, poorly educated individuals from the developing world looking for work or a safer place to call home.

Somaly Mam: An Investment to End Slavery Somaly Mam 2011

As Stead set out to do 123 years earlier, the documentarians who made The Hunt For Britain's Sex Traffickers seek to shock Britons as to the proximity and persistence of slavery.

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Britain's Long Fight Against Slavery Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism 2011

Traffickers often target impoverished, poorly educated individuals from the developing world looking for work or a safer place to call home.

Somaly Mam: An Investment to End Slavery Somaly Mam 2011

"Traffickers are taking advantage of more profit and less risk," said Derek Maltz, the Drug Enforcement Agency special agent in charge.

U.S. Sanctions Lebanese Bank Evan Perez 2011

Traffickers are reaching increasingly down to emerging-market countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, where consumption is also rising.

Brazil's Emerging Market: Crack John Lyons 2012

Traffickers offset these declines mainly by expanding markets in Western and Central Europe, where cocaine use grew to 126 metric tons in 2008 compared to 63 metric tons in 1998.

Brazil's Emerging Market: Crack John Lyons 2012

Traffickers should know that this route will be closed to them.

Greece Plans Fence for Turkish Border Associated Press 2012

As I read the account of the daily tragedy of Mexico's drug-cartel violence "Just an Ordinary Day of Death in Mexico's War on Drug Traffickers," page one, Aug. 27, I pondered a few questions.

Illegal Drug Users And Death in Mexico 2011