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Friday, June 20

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Slaves ‘as Young as 14’ Rescued in East Midlands

Dr. Alex Trautrims of Nottingham University said slaves are a “key source of income” for criminal gangs A woman of Chinese [...]

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Forced Marriage Survivor: “I Don’t Blame My Husband for What Happened”

One survivor of forced marriage in England is speaking out about her ordeal. Growing up Anusha (not her real name) she says she always [...]

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Reports of forced labor emerge as Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest begins

Uzbekistan’s annual harvest is getting underway, and yet again reports of forced labor are popping up. The country has been [...]

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Malcolm Bidali exposes Qatar’s contempt for migrant workers’ rights

Earlier this year, guards from security companies in Qatar, many of which had recently been contracted to work for the FIFA 2022 World [...]

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International Justice Mission involved in violent raids, separating children from families

A recent investigation by BBC Africa Eye has raised serious concerns about the operations of one of the world’s leading [...]

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Indian men answering to job ads are finding themselves on the Russian frontline

Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing. In a classic bait and switch, the BBC recently reported on [...]

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Slavery survivor wins compensation but others in U.K. die waiting

Wealthy modern slavery profiteers walk free before their victims receive compensation in the U.K.

Seven years after his trial, a modern slavery survivor in the U.K. has finally won compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation [...]

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Indians lured by job scams then forced into slavery

The promise of a lucrative job dangled in front of someone desperate to earn a living wage. That’s the scenario playing out across the [...]

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Worker Background Checks in UK May Not Detect Slavery

The BBC reports that researchers say businesses in the UK may be hiring forced labor, because companies do not have enough information [...]

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150 Children, Including a 2 Year Old, Trafficked to Wales

In the last 18 months, Wales has seen nearly 150 children — some as young as two — trafficked to the area. The majority were girls who [...]

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Maids for Sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets

You won’t see them on the streets of Kuwait, but pick up a smartphone and you can easily search thousands of pictures of domestic [...]

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What happens if Spain’s Prime Minister criminalizes sex work?

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pledged to criminalize sex work in the country, claiming that it ‘enslaves [...]

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Modern slavery cases on the rise as U.K. care worker shortage exploited

Over the past year, modern slavery cases reported in the care industry in the U.K. have more than doubled. Investigators have said in [...]

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Online romance scams hiding torture and modern slavery

Warning: This story contains details of violence, including sexual violence, which may be disturbing. Names have been changed to [...]

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Inside the human trafficking scandal rocking Scotland’s fishing industry

A harrowing BBC investigation has unveiled that dozens of workers from the Philippines, Ghana, India, and Sri Lanka may have been [...]

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Survivor story- How an IT job in Thailand turned into cyber-slavery in Myanmar

How an IT job in Thailand turned into cyber-slavery in Myanmar

Trigger Warning: this article contains graphic descriptions of abuse endured by those trapped in cyber-scam compounds.  Thousands of [...]

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The Domestic Worker who ate Dog Food to Survive

Maria (not her real name) travelled from the Philippines to Brazil to be a domestic worker for a wealthy family in the suburbs of Sao [...]

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Yazidi Teen: ‘I Met My ISIS Captor on a German Street’

A Yazidi teenage girl who was sold into slavery by ISIS and managed to escape to Germany says she has come face-to-face with her former [...]

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Forced labor punishment for sex workers scrapped in China

China has announced plans to end the practice of subjecting sex workers and their clients to forced labor in detention as punishment. [...]

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“Xinjiang papers” link top level Chinese officials to Uyghur persecution

Previously unpublished confidential documents link the system of detention and forced labor of the Uyghur population to statements made [...]

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Thai chicken company loses suit against human rights activists yet again

Three human rights activists in Thailand have finally been declared not guilty in a trial lasting almost four years. Their alleged [...]

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Know someone addicted to Temu? The fix supplied by forced labor

Online shopping platform Temu has perfected the art of gamifying cheap online shopping as reported by the BBC. Using everything from [...]

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Modern slavery survivor's journey ends with carrying the Olympic Torch

Modern slavery survivor’s journey ends with carrying the Olympic Torch

In what would have once been only a dream, Mohammed Zaman, a survivor of modern slavery, carried the Olympic torch during the Paris [...]

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Ghost jobs for sale: UK recruiters hiring migrants for jobs that don’t exist

Modern slavery and exploitation within the social care sector in the UK have been on the rise following a 2022 relaxation of [...]

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