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Big businesses in Asia, from hotels to clothing brands, are pledging to tackle modern slavery in their industries. The Mekong Club, a Hong Kong-based NGO, created the business pledge against modern slavery, seeing corporations as partners in the fight against human trafficking. Thomson Reuters Foundation reports: So far, six companies have signed the pledge, which […]
India’s National Human Rights Commission says it will investigate why 100 rescued brick factory workers were never given legal and financial support by the government. Local authorities, activists, and the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labour (NCCEBD) rescued the enslaved workers last weekend in Jammu and Kashmir. Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that some of victims […]
Reports of forced labor in the lead up to the Qatar World Cup have been in the headlines for years, but the problem of migrant worker exploitation extends far beyond building stadiums. As the Middle East attempts to gain more manpower, recruitment agencies are turning to Africa. Thousands of African migrant workers are already in […]
Fashion retailer Hugo Boss says it has discovered cases of forced labor in its supply chain. Young Indian women working for Best Corporation, one of Hugo Boss’ suppliers, have been held captive and barred from leaving factory premises in Tamil Nadu. The Guardian reports that part of the problem stems from women’s dormitories being on […]
High school teacher Rajkumar Kotal saw that his students were in trouble, but he didn’t know what to do. Too often they were pushed into forced marriages or targeted by traffickers in West Bengal, which accounted for 44 percent of human trafficking cases reported in India in 2016. Then everything changed when the police set […]
Indian police have arrested three men for running a trafficking ring that transported twenty five Indian boys to France by luring them into signing up for a fake rugby camp. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) says that the boys arrived in France in 2016 but were soon taken to gurudwara, a Sikh temple, in Paris and […]
As India moves closer to passing a new anti-trafficking law, details of the legislation are revealing lengthy punishments for traffickers. It would prescribe 10 years jail for those convicted of “aggravated forms of trafficking” and life sentences for repeat offenders. The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill 2017, sponsored by the Women & […]
Terranea Resort, a luxury retreat just minutes from Los Angeles, has come under fire for allegedly exploiting their foreign interns. The interns from the Philippines, Malaysia, and India were supposed to learn from the resort’s eight restaurants, but say they were not trained but had to spend thousands of dollars on airfare and placement fees. […]
A 21-year-old woman working at a textile factory in south India has passed away, renewing concerns about the working conditions for the thousands employed in the multi-billion dollar garment industry. The woman was from the eastern Indian state of Odisha had a fever and later died on Dec. 14 in a hospital in the southern […]
An Indian spiritual leader has been accused of trafficking and enslaving dozens of young women and girls at several ashrams in Delhi and across the country. Ajay Verma, a lawyer appointed by the Delhi High Court, says that these women were locked in ashrams — or spiritual communities. “Of the more than 100 women we […]
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