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