149 people have been arrested as part of a new Interpol-led operation targeting the illicit trafficking of weapons from countries in eastern Europe and the Balkans.

The United Nations’ migration agency says growing numbers of African migrants passing through Libya are being sold as slaves by traffickers or militia groups before being held for…

NGOs react angrily to suggestions that their efforts to rescue migrants off the Libyan coast are encouraging smugglers

The Vatican was forced to defend its decision to invite China to a conference on organ trafficking despite the country's murky recent-past regarding the issue

Three Italians have been arrested on suspicion of running an arms trafficking ring.

Almost three quarters of victims of human trafficking worldwide are female.

Mohamed Swayib is the Head of DCIM, the department in charge of combatting illegal immigration in Libya. In an interview with Valérie Gauriat, he blames the international community for not implementi

*Video available in Arabic only “We are slaves to the weather, our small boats can’t move easily if the sea is rough, and when the sea is not calm we are…

Caught in the Libya's instability and lawlessness, sub-Saharan migrants are exposed to abuse, violence and trafficking.

Five years after being plunged into instability after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is a major crossroads of irregular immigration and is officially home to nearly 300,000…

Sophie Claudet: Valérie, you’re just back from Libya, and you filmed in Tripoli.

Is there a way out for irregular migrants in Libya, or are they condemned to die there or perhaps at sea if they attempt the journey to Europe?

This is the Brief from Brussels, a daily roundup of stories making headlines in Europe’s de facto political capital.

The German chancellor is on the second leg of a three-country African tour which started in Mali and will finish in Ethiopia.

The world’s most trafficked mammal has gained special protection after more than a million were poached from the wild in the last decade.

The arrest comes after 33 illegal migrants were found in the back of a van near the border with Serbia. They had identity documents with them but no Schengen visas.

Italian police have arrested eight people on suspicion of migrant smuggling and falsifying documents.

More than 1.2 million people fled poverty and war in 2015 hoping to find a safe haven in Europe and many of the children who have made that journey are being exploited.

Insiders visited southeast Turkey, home to a large number of Syrian refugees who have fled their war-torn country, and found many children forced to work.