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The Australian government has appointed Chris Evans, former Labor minister and former chief executive of Walk Free’s Global Freedom Network, as the country’s first anti-slavery commissioner. Evans, whose five-year term…

…environmental challenges. Since receiving a $600 million USD loan from the African Development Bank in 2019 to boost cocoa production and improve farmer livelihoods, COCOBOD has been required to implement…

…to work under threat of punishment. This victory reflects a growing national movement to address forced labor within U.S. prisons. Previously, Nevada required its 10,000 or so incarcerated persons to…

Nicholas’s life in the California prison system was dictated by forced labor. Sick or not, he was required to report to his 4:30 a.m. kitchen shift daily, facing punishment or…

…leadership. After they refused to pay the former CEO’s legal fees, Jeffries sued the company, arguing that his employment contract required the brand to cover his legal fees. At the…

…running water, and a minimum wage, as required by Indian law. However, Gorhe’s report was largely ignored, and no further investigations or laws followed. When asked about the hysterectomies, Balasaheb…

…are women, hired on short-term contracts with few rights or benefits. That means they have little to no protection if their rights are being abused. One woman working in the…

…hours victims were required to work, sometimes up to 30-hour shifts. According to one of the investigators, the traffickers basically “treated their victims like livestock” feeding them just enough “to…

…time off to obtain the vaccines required for school enrollment.” A Broader Trend in Child Labor Exploitation This lawsuit highlights a growing concern in the U.S. of the increasing number…

…tourists is replicated across Southeast Asia and has also been reported on in Nepal and across Africa.7,8 In one case in Nepal, a mother searching for her two children who…