'Traffickers prey on dreams': victims recruited through online scams on the rise
- On Thursday, Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced nearly $3.35 million in federal funding for nine organizations across Canada to support projects aiding human trafficking survivors.
- Trafficking cases have risen steadily, with the Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline receiving more than 5,900 calls in 2025—a 14% increase—as predators increasingly utilize online platforms and short-term rentals to move victims.
- Authorities in the Toronto area announced more than 80 charges against nine men on Tuesday, revealing a trafficking network spanning Ontario and Western Canada that exploits transit corridors for moving victims.
- Describing human trafficking as a "devastating form of gender-based violence," federal Minister of Women and Gender Equality Rechie Valdez said the funding aims to solidify a justice system prioritizing survivor safety and dignity.
- At a Malta conference, experts warned that traffickers increasingly use online scams and false employment promises to exploit vulnerabilities, necessitating stronger international monitoring and prevention strategies to address the crime.
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Behind the scam: Restoring human dignity and hope for survivors of trafficking
As we mark the 2026 World Day Against Trafficking in Human Persons on the theme "Trapped behind the scam," the International Coordinator of Talitha Kum, the global network of Consecrated Life Against Human Trafficking, brings us an all-too-common story of our time and the appeal to weave networks of hope, peace, freedom and justice so no one is treated as a commodity. Read all
The support line will finance projects to prevent and protect victims of human trafficking, worth 100,000 euros. Government highlights the importance of combating serious human rights violations.
'Traffickers prey on dreams': victims recruited through online scams on the rise
Victims of human trafficking are increasingly being recruited through online scams, with traffickers offering false hope and promises of employment to those looking for a job, Alexia Manduca from the Human Rights Directorate warned on Thursday.Manduca, from the directorate's anti-human trafficking unit, said human trafficking remained a serious and often hidden crime in Malta. Its...
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