Over the past decade, cyber-scam centres dedicated to running online scams at a massive scale have proliferated across areas of South-East Asia. These centres themselves have become sites of significant exploitation. This research sought to understand women and girls’ experiences of trafficking into cyber-scam centres for forced criminality in the South East Asian region.

This report provides a valuable resource to help policy-makers and practitioners to support, improve, evaluate and fund specialised services, and to anticipate the needs of sexual exploitation victim-survivors.

The investigation and prosecution of human trafficking and slavery cases is challenging. The purpose of this study was twofold: to identify the points of attrition in the criminal justice process (defined as when a matter was referred to the police until the achievement of a court outcome), and to identify the challenges that police and...

The Department of Home Affairs commissioned the Australian Institute of Criminology to undertake this review of the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking and Slavery 2015–19. The review provides a basis upon which to reflect on past activities and to inform the development of the next action plan.

This paper reviews the literature to explore the risks of sexual exploitation faced by children living in orphanages in South-East Asia, as well as the links between orphanages and child trafficking, illicit adoption, and orphanage scams.