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Forced labor in Uyghur Region, says UN report

Forced labor still rife in Uyghur Region, says U.N. report

China continues its ‘widespread and systematic programme’ of abuse, including forced labor, against the Uyghur and other Turkic and [...]

Italy law to push back migrants will increase deaths at sea

Italy recently passed new legislation that seeks to curb arrivals from refugees crossing the Mediterranean, known as the deadliest sea [...]

Thai Fisherman: We Need Collective Action, Not Boycotts

Back in 2013, Chairat Ratchapaksi found a job as a commercial fisherman to support his family. Quickly hired by a boat owner in Samut [...]

Economic crisis further endangers migrant workers in Lebanon

In a video report on Monday, Al Jazeera described the worsening plight of migrant workers in Lebanon, where a deep economic crisis has [...]

Have Qatar labor reforms helped migrant workers?

Qatar, which has a 90% migrant workforce, has been under public scrutiny for its treatment of migrant workers since receiving the award [...]

Vietnamese children forced to work off debt in Europe

Chung* was an orphan living in Vietnam, collecting and selling driftwood, snails and plastic bottles to survive, when he was [...]

Libyan authorities free 156 migrants from traffickers

Italy and EU complicit in crimes against humanity for renewing pact with Libya

Last week an inhumane migration pact between Italy and Libya was automatically renewed for three years after the November deadline for [...]

UN: Female Migrants Face Gang Rape in Libya

A new report from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has found that the “overwhelming majority” [...]

Potential victims of trafficking risk deportation to Jamaica

The UK’s interior ministry deported a number of long-term UK residents with criminal convictions to Jamaica on Tuesday, despite [...]

Lebanon’s financial crisis worsens exploitation of domestic workers

Al Jazeera reports that Lebanon’s current financial crisis heightens the insecurity of domestic workers, particularly migrant domestic [...]

What it’s like to seek support as a U.K. trafficking survivor

Despite the 2019 launch of the Recovery Needs Assessment (RNA), the U.K. Home Office’s specialised support system for trafficking [...]

Modern slavery survivors stand up to plantation owners in Ecuador

A group of over 100 current and former Ecuadorian workers are pursuing legal compensation from the company that abused and exploited [...]

Nigeria Finds 20,000 Women Sold as Sex Slaves

Nigeria’ anti-trafficking agency, NAPTIP, says it has found 20,000 to 45,000 kidnapped Nigerian women in southern Mali. Many of [...]

More than 50 Nepali women and girls trafficked into India every day

In a photo essay on Sunday, Al Jazeera shed light upon the shocking extent of human trafficking of women and girls in Nepal — [...]

How can modern slavery be stopped?

U.N. Libya mission to investigate reports of mass graves

A U.N. Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) is seeking to verify reports of mass graves in a trafficking hub in Libya, according to a report [...]

Ethiopian teenagers and young women are vulnerable to exploitation

Ethiopia’s recruitment drive into domestic servitude?

Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian women are being recruited by their own government for domestic servitude in Saudi Arabia despite its [...]

Facebook Page Shames Employers Accused of Maid Abuse

A post written in seven languages — those spoken by Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers — sits atop the Facebook page of [...]

Death of domestic worker in Lebanon highlights horrors of domestic slavery

The tragic death of Faustina Tay, a Ghanaian domestic worker, following repeated abuse at her job in Lebanon has underscored the urgent [...]

Legacy of the transatlantic slave trade in the U.S.

India's caste-based "customary" labor considered form of slavery

Nepal workers fight debt bondage of ‘haruwa-charuwa’ system

“We are like the medieval serfs serving a king. Our role in life is understood to be servants of rich men who own vast lands but cannot [...]

Migrant domestic workers rise up against exploitation in Hong Kong

Shiela Tebia Bonifacio was 23 years old when she traveled to Hong Kong from the Philippines to take up a job as a domestic worker. What [...]

Fighting Slavery in Mauritania

Mauritania, an Islamic republic in western Africa, has one of the highest rates of slavery in the world. Due to its caste system, many [...]

Average Age of Nevada Traffickers Between 17 and 27

“When I was a little girl I wanted to be Mariah Carey. I wanted to follow my dream of being a singer, and Las Vegas seemed [...]