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New data reveals the number of potential modern slavery victims in the U.K. care sector reached a record high last year with an alarming spike in reports of labor exploitation in health and social care providers like care homes. Low pay, long hours, illegal fees Unseen, a U.K. anti-slavery charity that runs the modern slavery […]
An investigation has uncovered how children in Nepal are being trafficked into illegal orphanages where they are uncared for and often forced to work or beg. Families are often duped into giving up their children to these fraudulent homes under false promises that they will receive an education. “My heart broke” Bhim Bahadur Shahi is […]
Thousands of Punjabi migrants seek work abroad with many ending up on Italy’s kiwi farms. While they are paid only around half of Italy’s minimum wage, they accept these lower wages to help financially support their families back at home. Nevertheless, it is clear that these workers are exploited. The demand for agricultural labor in […]
The U.K.’s requirement for companies to submit modern slavery statements is being ignored. Therefore the government is expected to demand compulsory reporting in a new parliamentary bill to tackle corporate commitment to end modern slavery. Less than a third of qualifying companies reported on anti-slavery measures within their supply chains in 2022 according to the […]
Are you planning on marking International Women’s Day? Share your thoughts and questions in the comments! When 15,000 women, the majority being immigrant Jewish garment workers, marched through New York City in 1908, they sparked the call for an annual observance of International Women’s Day. These women in New York were demanding the […]
Survivors of human trafficking and exploitation in India face significant hurdles in accessing the support they need to rebuild their lives. A lack of access to economic opportunities that would provide them with the financial security required to build their resilience to re-trafficking is one of these. Despite the challenges, survivors are demanding better and […]
Squalid work camps, 24-hour shifts, heavy surveillance, and withheld wages: these were the conditions that 500 Indian workers became trapped in after they were lured to the U.S. to repair oil rigs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In his new book, The Great Escape, labor organizer Saket Soni tells the story of the workers […]
PBS reports that an estimated 35,000 Nepalis are trafficked every year, dozens of whom are victims of organ trafficking, forced to donate their kidneys or have their organs stolen outright. One district in Nepal has been dubbed ‘Kidney Valley’ for the frequency with which this trafficking occurs. According to locals, in one village, almost every […]
Women in Kashmir report having been kidnapped and forced into marriages against their will. Brides are sold to men for as little as $35 according to Abdul Rashid Hanjura, a Kashmir-based lawyer and activist specializing in human trafficking cases. False job offers Nazima Begum (not her real name) tells Al Jazeera of the day she […]
When working as a cook in the Sudanese embassy in London, Fatima Benkharbouche faced exploitation: her employer failed to pay her minimum wage, withheld some of her salary and breached working time rules. She made an employment tribunal claim, but because her employer had diplomatic immunity, her claim was originally dismissed. The law is […]
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