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Sunday, May 11

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NGOs: Are Industry and Governments Watering Down New Cocoa Report Data to Downplay Persistent Child Labor and Farmer Poverty?

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Climate change: a threat to health of the planet and driver of trafficking

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) damning new report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, [...]

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Qatar arrests and deports unpaid migrant workers

On August 14 around 60 workers protested in front of the Doha offices of Al Bandary International Group. They had not received their [...]

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Lebanon’s financial crisis makes domestic workers more vulnerable to exploitation

Jullebee’s death sparks renewed calls for domestic worker protections

Jullebee Ranara, a 35 year old Filipino housemaid who worked in Kuwait was flown home last Friday. This, however, isn’t a story [...]

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Eritreans experienced forced labor under compulsory national service

Eritreans experienced forced labor under compulsory national service Eritrea’s policy of indefinite national service, which includes [...]

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Imports to the U.S. from China seem fishy, and forced labor is the culprit

On October 24, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China sent a formal request for the government to ban seafood that is [...]

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EU's deadly migration policy claims 60 more lives off Libyan coast

E.U.’s deadly migration policy claims 60 more lives off Libyan coast

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that 60 persons drowned last week attempting the cross the Mediterranean and [...]

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Libyan Coast Guard attacks German NGO rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

SOS Humanity, a German charity operating a rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea, is accusing the Libyan Coast Guard of attacking their [...]

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U.N. labor agency reports “obscene” yearly profits from forced labor

The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) newly released figures calculating illegal profits generated by forced labor worldwide [...]

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India’s shrimp industry contaminated by forced labor, hazardous conditions, new investigations reveal

The insatiable demand for shrimp in Western countries has led to the rapid expansion of hatcheries and processing plants across [...]

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No protection from injury or even death on the job for incarcerated workers in America

“I could hear ‘crunch, crunch, crunch. I couldn’t feel anything, but I could hear the crunch.” Blas Sanchez’s [...]

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Workers’ complaint filed against Saudia Arabia amid FIFA World Cup bid

AP News reports that a coalition of trade unions has lodged a formal complaint against Saudi Arabia, accusing the nation of severe [...]

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Fast fashion in China: big industry with even bigger problems

China is both the world’s largest textile producer and consumer thanks in part to E-commerce powerhouses Shein and Temu. These [...]

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Nevada ends forced labor in prisons as national movement gains ground

Nevada ends forced labor in prisons as national movement gains ground

Nevada has become the latest state to abolish forced labor and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments, voting on Tuesday to [...]

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