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Hundreds of Children Disappear from Assam Daily

Hundreds of children disappear from Assam daily. Mormu and his family are from a small village in northeastern India. This is an [...]

Malaysia Will Appeal Murder Acquittal Over Adelina’s Death

Malaysia’s Attorney General has promised to appeal the recent court decision to acquit the former employer of Adelina Sau for [...]

Indonesian fishermen allegedly forced to work to death on Chinese vessel

Indonesian officials are urging the Chinese government to investigate allegations of forced labor aboard a Chinese fishing vessel, an [...]

European trade unions condemn harmful E.U. migrant policy

E.U. perpetuates forced labor in Libya, Amnesty International reports

Trigger warning: this article contains references to sexual abuse and suicide. A new report by Amnesty International has strongly [...]

A child trafficking survivor’s plea to the U.K. government

Refugees risk being exploited and abused in Malaysia’s food industry

Malaysian law does not recognize refugees so many are forced to work informally, thus running the risk of being subjected to [...]

Italy's high court finds sea migrant return scheme illegal

Italian top court joins Freedom United in denouncing sea migrant return scheme

Advocates feel vindicated as Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled earlier this month that it is illegal to send [...]

Rights of Girls Must be Championed

Rights of girls must be championed and made real...

The New US Trafficking in Persons Report is Here

The annual US Trafficking in Persons Report is out. And there are some notable changes. For one, the US Department of State report [...]

Italian government announces amnesty for undocumented migrants

With the introduction of a new government decree on Wednesday, undocumented migrants across Italy will now be able to obtain legal [...]

Exclusion: Women survivors suffer from digital poverty

Digital poverty, or the lack of access to information and communications technology such as internet, phones, and computers, [...]

Are China labor monitoring agencies compromised?

Global supply chains have become so complex that it makes accountability for human rights protections difficult. As illustrated in our [...]

The “Migration Pact” that could mean the end of human rights in the E.U.

After nearly a decade of deliberation, the European Parliament recently passed a sweeping overhaul of the European Union’s asylum and [...]

Paradise Lost. Hawaii is Sex Trafficking Hub

Hawaii has become a paradise lost. When people think of the Islands, most imagine lovely beaches and exotic hotels. Few realize that [...]

Brazil to Create New ‘Dirty List’ of Firms Guilty of Slavery

Brazil has announced that it will create a new list of companies who are using slave labor to be published in the country’s [...]

Gulf states are failing to protect migrant workers during pandemic

In an opinion piece for Al Jazeera on Monday, migrant rights activist Rima Kalush warned that low-income migrant workers in the Gulf [...]

Child slavery on the rise in India

According to India’s last census in 2011, there were over 10 million child laborers in country. Not only is it likely that the number [...]

Women and girls at perilous risk of slavery under the Taliban

Child marriage: the future of girls under the Taliban

At just ten years old, Raihana Mirzai is already engaged to be married to a man double her age. Unsurmountable debt has led her family [...]

Nigerian women trapped in domestic servitude in Iraq, pleading for help

Nigerian women trapped in domestic servitude, pleading for help

*Trigger warning: Story mentions sexual violence. As reported by Al Jazeera, women from Nigeria and other African countries are being [...]

World Day Against Child Labor

This year's World Day Against Child Labor is putting a spotlight on children laboring in supply chains. Nearly one in every ten [...]

Macron: 14 EU States to Assist in Libya Migrant Detention Crisis

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a potentially promising “solidarity plan” proposed by Germany and France to [...]

Libyan coastguard returns 93 rescued migrants to country after six die

Ninety-three migrants have been rescued and returned to Libya after trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean, the International [...]

A man holding a blue flag and a sign saying Free Uighur

New report on “architecture of repression” against Uyghurs

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released a new report on what it dubs the “architecture of repression” against the [...]

Jamaican farmworkers in Canada organize against “systemic slavery”

Jamaican nationals temporarily working in Canada under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) have exposed their experiences [...]

Mass graves in Libya reveal brutal treatment of migrants—again

The discovery of mass graves in Libya, where dozens of migrants’ bodies have been unearthed—some with gunshot wounds—has once [...]