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Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The operation was carried out at the so-called “baby factory” in the Mowe area of the southwestern Ogun state on Tuesday. “Acting on a tip-off, our men stormed the illegal maternity home and rescued 10 people, including four kids and six women, four of whom are pregnant,” police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi told our correspondent. He said the women told police that the owner hired men to impregnate them and then sell the newborns for profit. The “factories” are usually small illegal facilities parading as private medical clinics that house pregnant women and offer their babies for sale. In some cases, young women have been held against their will and raped before their babies are sold on the black market. Oyeyemi said two suspects, a physically-challenged man and the daughter of the owner of the clinic, were arrested. “T

Experts say the loss of jobs and livelihoods as a result of coronavirus lockdowns has raised people's vulnerability to human trafficking in Southeast Asia  Bangkok, Thailand -  Before lockdowns, curfews, and safe distancing, Thodsapone Kitta would go door to door, visiting low-income families in Thailand's northern Nan province, a poor, mountainous region home to hill tribes and rural farmers where people are vulnerable to trafficking. For Thodsapone, a member of The Freedom Story, an organisation working to curb child trafficking, the best way to combat exploitation is through preventive practice: offering assistance to vulnerable children through education, emotional support, teaching life skills and, most importantly, mentorship. As the son of rural corn farmers, Thodsapone had little such support. Despite the odds, he was the first in his village to go to university. Preferring not to go into detail, he tells of working his wa