Earlier this year, InfoMigrants managed to communicate with an Ivorian minor locked up in a house in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. For several days, the 16-year-old called Mariam* recounted her experiences in captivity including repeated rapes, her fear of falling pregnant and her dreams of reaching Europe. But then there was silence. Here's an animated account of Mariam's horrific story.
Traumatized refugees in need of psychological care have to wait over seven months in Germany before they are granted therapy. The long wait periods were reported in response to an official inquiry submitted by the Left Party (Die Linke).
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), human trafficking and ‘modern slavery’ is on the rise across the globe and taking on ‘horrific dimensions.’ But what kinds of factors make people vulnerable to being trafficked? A new report investigates.
The Italian authorities have dismantled a Nigerian human trafficking ring that operated between Nigeria, Libya and Italy, forcing women and children to sell their bodies by using voodoo rituals as a form of coercion.
She escaped from a living hell: Nadia Murad gives a face to the thousands of Yazidi women who were raped by members of IS. Her efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon in war earned her the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
In a report published in late July, Save the Children denounced the exploitation of migrant children between Italy and France. The NGO said that minors, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, are being sexually exploited to pay for their safe passage into France from the Italian border.
The use of social media to communicate and make plans has set the ongoing migration crisis apart from previous waves of migration. But there is a dark side to services like Facebook that may harm, rather than help, its users.
Thousands of Nigerian migrants are being forced into the sex trade in Italy. These young women come to Europe seeking a better future and are trapped into well organized sex rackets.
A shocking report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) tells of migrants who were sold in "slave markets" in Libya. DW spoke with a Mexican photographer who has seen these horrors with his own eyes.
Many Gambian migrants who reported cases of severe abuse during their detention in Libya have returned home. But now that The Gambia is transitioning to democracy, what will happen to those who made it to Europe?
©ANSA Idara* was planning to go to Italy with her husband. She ended up in prison in Tripoli instead, where she was turned into a sex slave by another Nigerian woman and her life turned into a living hell.
A 19-year-old Eritrean refugee bears the signs of violence she suffered as she fled from her country to Europe through Libya. She is now pregnant as a result of rape.