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India’s newly proposed Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021 is coming under fire for its lack of adherence to international labor standards and over-reliance on criminalization as a deterrent to trafficking. Writing in Open Democracy, Igor Bosc, Bharti Birla, and Neha Wadhawan argue that the Bill needs significant revisions, particularly in regards […]
Over 50 people in rural Assam, some of them tea plantation workers, have been lured into selling their kidneys by organ traffickers. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating economic impact on rural workers in the Indian state, forcing many to take out loans to get by. The organ trafficking racket was first exposed when […]
A Melbourne couple who kept a Tamil woman from India in domestic servitude for eight years have both been handed prison sentences this week in a case that Justice John Champion called “a fairly remarkable absence of humanity.” Between 2007 and 2015, Kumuthini Kannan and her husband Kandasamy Kannan abused and exploited a woman they […]
Tens of thousands of Indian migrants live and work in Latina, a rural province south of Rome. Unfortunately, many of them suffer the fate of all too many migrant workers far from home – they are mistreated in ways that can only be described as modern slavery. One such migrant is Balbir Singh who worked […]
This past week, Finnish human rights NGO, Finnwatch, has revealed serious mistreatment and abuse of workers at one of the Malaysian palm oil conglomerate IOI Corporation Berhad (IOI) estates. Finnwatch, which launched an investigation in August 2020, reports that, among other abuses, migrant workers from India are paying up to $600 in recruitment fees, are […]
A new report by the NGOs Somo and Arisa investigating 29 spinning mills in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has found several international brands implicated in forced labor through their supply chains. One of the world’s largest retailers, U.K. groceries and general merchandise company, Tesco Ltd, is one of those companies. Tesco has admitted […]
Would you like us to share more content related to indigenous communities around the world? Let us know in the comments! Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States continue to be disproportionately represented in recorded numbers of trafficking survivors. The long-term impacts of colonization processes, displacement, racism, discrimination and barriers to education that have […]
A shocking new lawsuit has claimed that at least 200 workers were lured from India to the United States to build a Hindu temple in conditions of modern slavery. Hindu religious organization Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), which oversaw the construction of the temple in New Jersey, stands accused of running the illegal […]
For immediate release [Download as pdf for media contacts] Washington, D.C.— On March 31, 2021, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) released its second report on “Findings on the Progress of FGV’s Action Plan 2020.” The Fair Labor Association is affiliated with FGV Holdings Berhad in order to monitor the company’s progress on addressing labor rights […]
A report released by UNICEF this week has found 10 million more girls are at risk of child marriage over the next decade as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the BBC reports, while the proportion of girls married before legal adulthood has fallen by 15% since 2011, the impact of COVID-19 threatens to […]
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