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Qatar says it will pay back $5 million in recruitment fees paid by 30,000 migrant workers who are building stadiums in preparation for the World Cup. By the end of this month the government of Qatar will reimburse 5,500 South Asian migrant workers in Qatar for the fees they paid middlemen to get them a […]
A tribal girl from the Puducherry union territory in India has succeeded above all odds in reaching college after being rescued from a forced marriage six years ago. She was only 12 at the time. R Kowsalya had never attended school before she was 12 but has now remarkably enrolled in a three-year nursing and midwifery […]
India is looking to provide vocational training to 500,000 survivors of human trafficking under a new program launched by President Ram Nath Kovind. Justice and Care, the Indian non-profit that created the program curriculum, says that the training will last three months and be based on individual education levels. Participants will also be part of the […]
Tahmina was just 13 when her own sister sold her into marriage with a man 30 years her senior. The pricetag? 50,000 rupees (£557). Tahmina had travelled by bus, train, and car with her sister and brother-in-law, thinking they were heading to Delhi. Instead, she was taken to a remote village in Haryana and sold into […]
India is moving closer to approving a national anti-trafficking law after the country’s cabinet approved it. The Trafficking of Persons Bill will now head to parliament for approval after it reconvenes in March. Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi called the bill ‘historic,” adding that “It’s a victory of the 1.2 million people who participated in 11,000 km […]
A 17-year-old girl, Ruchi, has made waves in her village for standing up to her own family and threatening to report them to the police if they forced her to marry against her will. She’s now become a poster girl for campaigning against forced child marriage in her village. The Times of India reports: “Only […]
At a recent African summit in Ethiopia there appeared to be a surprising, but welcome sign: the African Union had, for the first time, called on Mauritania to end slavery in the country. Unfortunately, the call from one of the African Union’s subsidiary bodies — the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of […]
Prisoners in an Indiana correctional facility’s mental health unit are fighting a motion to throw out their case against Geo Group Inc., the private contractor that runs the prison through a contract with the Indiana Department of Correction. The detainees allege that they were subjected to involuntary servitude, peonage, and labor trafficking. The prisoners, DaMarcus Figgs and […]
Leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week are aiming to raise $1.5 billion USD. With it, they say they can halve the number of victims of modern slavery around the world. The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, a U.S-based partnership that unites governments, businesses and charities, is looking to follow in […]
As we look forward to the year ahead, our Executive Director takes a moment to reflect on some key focus areas in the fight to end modern slavery in 2018, and considers where some of our greatest challenges lie. Rising Discrimination against Migrants Growing anti-migrant rhetoric leaves those who are poorly resourced, and have been […]
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