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A professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City has resigned following reports that he exploited his graduate students for free labor. Ashim K. Mitra, the professor at the center of the case, resigned a day before the university made a final decision on his fate. Two months ago The Kansas Star reported that […]
Makhanlal Ahirwal bought saris, bangles, and anklets for his 16-year-old daughter’s wedding last year. He provided her in-laws with water cooler, a bed, and utensils as dowry, and hosted a feast for 500 people in his village in central village. Yet the 200,000 rupees he used for the wedding merely added to his 100,000 rupee debt accumulated […]
The addition of round-the-clock texting this year to the US National Trafficking Hotline has led to a sharp rise in the number of reported cases. DC anti-trafficking group Polaris operates the national hotline. This does not mean that human trafficking is on the rise, or that prevalence of the crime is increasing, but rather that […]
India is currently considering new legislation against human trafficking. But will the law do more harm than good? At once, some Indian victims of human trafficking have written postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to support the bill’s passage, while legal experts — including United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and Human Trafficking […]
Survivors of human trafficking across eleven Indian states are making a final push to convince lawmakers to pass a long-awaited anti-trafficking bill. The Trafficking of Persons Bill was passed by India’s lower house of parliament this July and is expected to be tabled in the upper house in the coming weeks. However, if the bill […]
What do US hotel workers at Marriott International have in common with Indian tea plantation workers? According to Tom Hunt and Genevieve LeBaron from the University of Sheffield and Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum from Global Labor Justice, both groups of workers face exploitative loans tied to their employers. Related Campaign: Traidcraft Exchange are Asking: Who Picked My Tea? […]
Half a million passengers pass through the Old Delhi railway station every day. This includes children who are being trafficked, shuttled across the city and the country as they are sold off for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Yet a team from Childline India Foundation have made it their mission to rescue these children, using […]
Campaigners in India are fearing that the country’s anti-trafficking bill could end up punishing consenting, adult sex workers by locking them up and incorrectly treating them like trafficking victims. India’s women’s minister believes the bill will unify existing anti-trafficking laws, support survivors’ needs, and prevent victims from being jailed. However, sex workers’ rights organizations and some […]
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi says he is optimistic that child labor can be abolished, stressing that the world’s youth are essential partners in the fight. “There is a serious problem of child labour and slavery does exist in the world in its cruelest forms. But abolition of slavery and child labour is possible, it […]
The director of a new film that documents children as young as five being trafficked for their labor says the world’s top brands are turning a blind eye to child slavery in their supply chains. Director of “Invisible Hands,” Shraysi Tandonon, documents child slavery on cacao plantations in Ghana, accessory factories in India, and tobacco […]
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