Advocates feel vindicated as Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled earlier this month that it is illegal to send [...]
Source: Al Jazeera
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Brazil to Create New ‘Dirty List’ of Firms Guilty of Slavery
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Gulf states are failing to protect migrant workers during pandemic
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Child slavery on the rise in India
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World Day Against Child Labor
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Macron: 14 EU States to Assist in Libya Migrant Detention Crisis
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Libyan coastguard returns 93 rescued migrants to country after six die
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New report on “architecture of repression” against Uyghurs
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Jamaican farmworkers in Canada organize against “systemic slavery”
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Yazidi Victims Treated for Trauma in German Village
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Eritrean Students: Gov. Making Us Slaves, Not Educating Us
Human Rights Watch is charging the Eritrean government with using its education system as a conscription machine that forces young [...]
Survivor of kafala-linked abuse in Lebanon returns home to Nigeria
A Nigerian migrant worker who was arrested and accused of attempted murder after surviving domestic abuse in Lebanon has finally [...]
Thousands flee violence linked to descent-based slavery in Mali
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Advocates and diplomats agree: Uyghur issue threatens U.N. credibility
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Kuwait Establishes Minimum Wage for Domestics
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