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A new forum of human trafficking survivors and NGOs has come together to launch the Indian Leadership Forum Against Trafficking, demanding that their voices be heard in the fight against modern slavery. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, there were 2,854 reported cases of human trafficking across India. This included 1,657 people who […]
Climbing through pitch-dark tunnels, children in Madagascar are mining mica, an iridescent mineral that will soon find its way into the supply chains of cosmetics, electronics, and even trains around the world. Mica has long been used by the cosmetics industry for providing sparkle and shine, but it’s also widely used in the electronics and […]
A married couple who ran two nightclubs has been found guilty of illegally harboring three Bangladeshi women in what is Singapore’s first conviction for labor trafficking. The traffickers — Indian nationals Priyanka Batthacharya Rajesh, 29, and Malkar Savlaram Anant, 49 — promised the women jobs as dancers in the nightclubs and monthly salaries of 60,000 […]
The results of the Freedom United Global Supporter Survey are here! We asked you to rate your government’s response to modern slavery and speak out on what you believe needs to change. We were thrilled by the thousands of supporters who took the time to complete the survey — thank you! So which country was rated the […]
According to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), West Bengal — which has long been India’s hub for human trafficking — may finally be turning around, at least according to statistics. In 2017, the number of recorded human trafficking cases in West Bengal saw a ten-fold decrease (from 3579 cases in 2016 […]
You won’t see them on the streets of Kuwait, but pick up a smartphone and you can easily search thousands of pictures of domestic workers, categorized by race, and listed by price. Put up for sale for a few thousand dollars. An undercover investigation by BBC Arabic found a booming black market for migrant domestic […]
In a major development, Qatar is set to finally abolish its notorious “kafala” system in January according to an announcement from the International Labour Organization. The kafala (sponsorship) system is present in many other countries besides Qatar and has long been criticized as an enabler of modern slavery. It ties migrant workers’ immigration status to […]
“How long can I wait?”, said Priya. “Maybe I won’t go now even if they ask me to.” Priya (not her real name) is one of 180 Bangladeshi sex trafficking survivors who were stuck in shelters in West Bengal. She was trafficked to a brothel in the east Indian state when she was just 15. […]
Indian migrant workers are struggling to fight back against exploitative recruitment agencies in the Gulf. Some have even reported that they’ve been held for ransom, even locked up under house arrest, until their families in India cough up large sums of money. With 9 million workers in Gulf states, the region has long been a […]
Border guards in Bangladesh are painting the homes of suspected human and drug traffickers red in an effort to stop trafficking from villages to nearby northeast India. One guard said that some houses have even been marked with the words “This is a human trafficker’s house.” “We arrested many of these (human) trafficking brokers more […]
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