A Lee Enterprises investigation found most states fail to protect vulnerable women and few law enforcement agencies punish the owners of the businesses, let alone go after their support networks.

Cuts to a UNHCR programme that maintained communal facilities for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar have meant lost income for families and a more precarious environment in the camps.

They cheated the casino out of more than $700,000 in less than one week in 2023, a portion of the $1.5 million they conned from casinos in five other states.