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Despite promises to reform and ensure abused migrant workers have access to remedy, new research from Amnesty International reveals that hundreds of migrant workers in Qatar have given up on receiving unpaid wages, returning home penniless. Amnesty’s report, All work, no pay: The struggle of Qatar’s migrant workers for justice, documents how workers employed by three […]
In a rare victory, India has sentenced a trafficker to life behind bars for trafficking five boys into forced labor at a bangle factory. Campaigners say the ruling gives hope to victims that traffickers will finally be prosecuted for their crimes. “This is just the beginning,” Narendra Sikhwal, head of Jaipur’s child welfare committee. “It […]
Rahda was only 13 when she had to testify in court about how she was trafficked for sexual exploitation when the defense lawyer started grilling her. Why didn’t she run away? Or try to kill herself? Rahda got scared, but fortunately the judge intervened. “The judge told the lawyer his questions were inappropriate, that I […]
The highest number of labor trafficking cases — nearly a quarter — reported to the US National Human Trafficking Hotline involved domestic workers. That’s some 1,211 individual cases. And Filipinos were the number one group of domestic workers who were trafficked by their employers. Mexico, the United States, India, and Colombia rounded out the top […]
“The parents usually tell me ‘no water, no daughter’,” said Hetu. The 42-year-old farm laborer in rural Bundelkhand in central India has been out of luck in finding a wife. The reason? Wells have dried up, forcing villagers to walk for miles to fetch water. It means that parents are rejecting would-be suitors for their […]
In what has potential to be a landmark case for prisoners’ rights, a new class action lawsuit against Indiana’s only for-profit prison charges that one group of inmates are victims of human trafficking and subjected to forced labor. Take Action: Stop Forced Labor in Detention Damarcus Figgs and David Corbin v. GEO Group, Inc. alleges that […]
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]We joined Traidcraft Exchange in calling on the six biggest tea brands to publish a full list of their suppliers in Assam, India and tell us who picks our tea. Transparency in the tea supply chain is the first crucial step in brands accepting their responsibility to workers in their supply chain. Without transparency, […]
Dharmendra Meena and his wife Vaijanti had a “beautiful and carefree” first year of marriage. But when Vaijanti developed an infection after giving birth, everything changed. Her doctor told her she’d need a “life-saving” hysterectomy – the removal of her uterus and ovaries – or risk dying. The couple took a loan of 100,000 rupees […]
An army officer has confessed to murdering five migrant domestic workers and two of their young daughters — one just six-years-old — in Cyprus in what is believed to be the island’s first serial killing. Among the victims were three Filipina domestic workers, Mary Rose Tiburcio, Arian Palanas Lozano, and Maricar Valtez Arquiola, as well […]
Rehana Begum has become the first survivor of forced labor in India to win full compensation — 180,000 Indian rupees ($2,600 USD) after a two-year legal battle. She spent three years working 16-hour days cleaning toilets for no pay. When she finally quit, she ended up homeless and her husband’s tea stall was destroyed in […]
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