A warrior against human trafficking

Ugandan Agnes Igoye's mission is to prevent children from being abducted, turned into sex slaves, forced to marry much older men, sold for adoption or forced to become soldiers of war. To do this, it trains police officers in identifying traffickers, rescues victims from captivity and travels with them through Africa to alert the population about the danger that surrounds them. Here she tells how tribal childhood and the violence of an armed militia have turned the fight against crime into its life purpose. By Monica Serino, New York

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