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In recent weeks fast-fashion company Boohoo has come under fire for labor abuses allegedly occurring in their suppliers’ factories in Leicester, central England. The “Boohoo & COVID-19” report by Labour Behind the Label published in June 2020 and a subsequent investigation by the Sunday Times uncovered disturbing exploitation, including immigrant workers with symptoms of COVID-19 […]
The British online fashion giant Boohoo is in the midst of an international scandal after a Sunday Times investigation last week uncovered serious worker exploitation at one of its factories. A reporter for the paper spent two days working undercover at Jaswal Fashions, in Leicester, where he found workers were paid far below minimum wage […]
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXp4K-1yNB0″][ct_goal]To have all charges dropped against migrant workers’ rights activist Andy Hall, who was sued by Thai pineapple company Natural Fruit in February 2013 for civil and criminal defamation, as well as violations of the Computer Crimes Act. The lawsuits stemmed from the “Cheap has a High Price” report published by NGO Finnwatch, […]
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the exploitation, inequality, and discrimination that migrant workers face. Harrowing stories of abuse, abandonment, and destitution from migrants in the region have been frequent throughout the pandemic. The pandemic has not created the challenges that these migrants face but rather […]
What do Edward Colston, Robert Milligan, and King Leopold II of Belgium have in common? They’re all men that have been commemorated with prominent statues and monuments—Milligan in London, Colston in Bristol, and Leopold in numerous cities across Belgium. They also all profited from the enslavement and forced labor of millions of African people. Now, […]
In a moving video report last week, the BBC revealed the staggering extent of India’s nationwide child trafficking network—a trade partly responsible for the disappearance of a shocking one child every eight minutes. Seventy thousand children are officially reported missing every year in India but, with many cases unregistered, the number is estimated to be […]
With the launch of a new campaign this past week, Freedom United joins a growing coalition of organizations calling on credit card companies to cut ties with pornographic sites such as Pornhub on the basis that they facilitate trafficking. In a new letter to ten major credit card companies, activists and campaigners called for the […]
A survivor of trafficking for sexual exploitation in India has revealed the devastating impact that social stigma can have on the lives of survivors long after they are rescued. Trishna (name changed to protect identity) was 14 when she was tricked into commercial sexual exploitation by a boy she trusted near her home village in […]
Informal labor may look entirely different in the post-lockdown world—and, with fewer breaks, lower wages, and longer hours, may involve a great deal more exploitation. This is no clearer than in India, where the lockdown enforced to fight the spread of COVID-19 suddenly left hundreds of thousands of informal workers without income and livelihoods. Experts […]
In an opinion piece last week for Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dalit rights activist Ritwajit Das and slavery expert Aidan McQuade warned that the coronavirus pandemic poses great risks to India’s “waste pickers” from the perspective of both health and modern slavery. In India’s complex caste system, waste picking as an occupation has traditionally been forced […]
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