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Thursday, September 28

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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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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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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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“My Job Gives Me a Future”: How Co-op Helps Trafficking Survivors

Peter (not his real name) bursts with excitement about his future. He’s planning to go on vacation with his girlfriend to Spain, [...]

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Home Office to Write to 18,000 CEOs

This summer, the government announced that it would review the UK Modern Slavery Act, hailed as landmark legislation when it was passed [...]

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Trafficking victims from Vietnam exploited in UK

The tragic death of 39 Vietnamese nationals in the trailer of a refrigerator lorry in Essex last year drew attention to the precarious [...]

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Traffickers exploiting Bangladeshis in Libya

Traffickers exploiting Bangladeshis in Libya

Traffickers are exploiting young Bangladeshi’s hopes of escaping poverty by offering them fake work placements in Libya, trapping them [...]

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Trafficked and tortured, thousands forced to scam in SE Asia

The BBC recounts the findings from a UN report that details how hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are lured to [...]

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Why Girls are Married Off in Sub-Saharan Africa

Many girls in sub-Saharan Africa are married off before they reach the age of 18, often because their families believe it will help [...]

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Victim Spent 10 Years Being “Passed Around” for Sex

Jenny (not her real name) is a victim of modern slavery who spent a decade in sexual slavery, being passed around by gangs of men who [...]

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Growing calls for credit card companies to reject porn sites

With the launch of a new campaign this past week, Freedom United joins a growing coalition of organizations calling on credit card [...]

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U.S. announce diplomatic boycott of 2022 Olympics Games in China

U.S. diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympic Games over Uyghur forced labor

The White House has announced that they will not be sending an official delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022. [...]

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