A rickety wooden boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims landed Wednesday in Indonesia as the northernmost province of Aceh continued to receive the refugees fleeing persecution and political unr

Authorities say dozens of Rohingya Muslims have come ashore in Indonesia, on the heels of another group earlier this month. The country suspects human trafficking syndicates may be behind the surge in refugee arrivals.

Human trafficking is now a global epidemic, representing a serious infringement of human rights that impacts millions of individuals worldwide. This illicit practice exploits victims through coercion, deception or the abuse of power, pushing them into forced labor, sexual exploitation and other unsavory activities.

The Ministry of Forestry official mentioned a cooperation plan with WWF to support Indonesia's biodiversity conservation, particularly rhinos.

Chinese authorities have detained a key suspect in human trafficking cases linked to online scam networks in Myanmar

The National Human Trafficking Hotline reports that since its creation in 2007, calls to its center have identified a total of 197,000 human trafficking victims. About 7,000 of those people were in North Carolina; about 3,200 were in South Carolina.