UK trafficking prosecutions are increasing since the Modern Slavery Act was introduced in April...
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How to Spot Trafficked Child Drug Couriers
Children across Britain are being used by gangs as couriers to send drugs from big cities to rural towns and coastal cities. [...]
North Korean Defectors Escape Sex Trafficking
Mira and Jiyun managed to cross the border into China with the help of brokers in a desperate attempt to escape from North Korea. But [...]
Babies stolen on Nairobi’s streets feed thriving child trafficking black market
This week, the BBC published a report detailing a year-long investigation into child trafficking in Kenya, which has found that [...]
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K-drama leads to 12 years of forced labor for North Korean teens
A video clip from North Korea showing two 16-year-old boys being sentenced to 12 years of forced labor for watching South Korean T.V. [...]
U.K.’s richest family accused of keeping staff in modern slavery
Four members of the Hinduja family, worth an estimated combined total of $47bn and currently the U.K.’s richest family, went on [...]
Blaming the players in the hostile immigration policy game
Thanh, (not his real name) is a Vietnamese migrant who came over to the U.K. on a small boat seeking asylum claiming he was trafficked. [...]
Shandra’s Story–My Life as a Sex Slave in the U.S.
Shandra's story as a sex slave who was trafficked from Indonesia to the U.S. is poignant. In this article, she gives her remarkable [...]
Czech Survivor: “He’d Bought Me Like a Piece of Furniture”
An undercover investigation by BBC Wales has revealed the extent of labor exploitation and human trafficking in the UK. There has been [...]
Safe Car Wash App Reveals 1,000 Trafficking Cases
Users of a new app, Safe Car Wash, have helped reveal nearly 1,000 suspected cases of modern slavery at hand car washes across the UK [...]
Indian factory workers supplying major brands allege routine exploitation
A BBC investigation this week uncovered claims of exploitation made by Indian factory workers that supply British supermarket chains [...]
Immunity from prosecution for modern slavery challenged
Diplomatic immunity enables perpetrators to exploit workers without any fear of prosecution or punishment, until this week, when a [...]
Reunited twins part of Georgia’s decades-long baby trafficking scheme
In 2021 Tamuna Museridze, a journalist in Transcaucasian Georgia, discovered she was adopted and started a Facebook group to search for [...]
Exploited migrant farm worker left to die at side of the road
An Indian farm worker, Satnam Singh, died after his employer left him on the side of the road following an accident that severed his [...]
U.K. Government compensates fishermen recognized as modern slavery victims
In a landmark victory for victims of modern slavery, the U.K. government awarded £20,000 in compensation to each member of a group of [...]
Is the World Cup Stadium Using Forced Labor?
Is the World Cup stadium being built by victims of forced labor? Amnesty International says that the new flagship stadium for the 2022 [...]
The College Cleaner No One Knew was Enslaved
It’s 9AM and Sara watches the students arrive at school as she mops the floor. She looks at them wishing that she too could [...]
Cyprus Serial Killing Devastates Migrant Worker Community
An army officer has confessed to murdering five migrant domestic workers and two of their young daughters — one just six-years-old — in [...]
M&S becomes first major fashion brand to publicly commit to Call to Action on Uyghur cotton
The British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has signed the Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labor’s Call to Action and committed [...]
Olympic star, Sir Mo Farah, reveals he was trafficked to the U.K. as a child
Sir Mo Farah, a renowned and award-winning British Olympic athlete revealed in a recent BBC and Red Bull Studios documentary that he [...]
Ban on child marriage is not stopping forced marriage abroad
One year ago, in February 2023, it became illegal in England and Wales for children to marry when the loophole that allowed 16 and 17 [...]
Ending forced child marriage: Sierra Leone’s bold new law
On Tuesday, Sierra Leone enacted a landmark law banning child marriage, a significant step towards protecting children’s rights [...]
Family-run gang busted trafficking teens
A human trafficking ring made up mostly of gang-members from the same family was recently broken up by law enforcement in Romania and [...]
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