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Monday, July 14

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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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From modern slavery to a normal life: Loretta’s story

What began as an invitation to work as a caregiver for four children living in the U.K. turned into what Loretta now knows as a form of [...]

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Forced to fight: how job promises lead to the Russian war zone

The Russian government recently discharged dozens of Indian men who had been forcibly conscripted to fight in the war in Ukraine. Duped [...]

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U.S. begins blocking solar materials produced in Uyghur Region

UK green energy bill amended to block slave labor-linked solar panels

Britain amends its Great British Energy Bill to ensure the new state-owned energy company, GB Energy, cannot use solar panels linked 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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Cubans trafficked to fight for Russia in war against Ukraine

According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Russia has been operating a human trafficking ring that forcibly “recruits” Cubans to fight [...]

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U.K. rule change leaves survivors at increased risk of detention and deportation

Asylum seekers face ongoing inhumanity by U.K. government

The Rwanda Bill, discriminatory GPS tagging coupled with a raft of other inhumane legislation, all underline the U.K. government’s [...]

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China hits back against fashion’s crackdown on Uyghur forced labor

Many fashion brands have been making efforts to purge their supply chains of cotton picked in the Uyghur region  or any element that [...]

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Former UN judge jailed for domestic slavery

Former UN judge jailed for domestic slavery

Lydia Mugambe—former UN judge, Ugandan High Court judge, and Oxford law student—has been jailed for modern slavery offenses. Despite [...]

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Scotland’s Anti-slavery Day

Police and prosecutors are marking anti-slavery day by delivering a "crucial" message that there is no place for human trafficking in [...]

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Bride Trafficking in Vietnam: Coping with a Daughter’s Disappearance

In remote parts of northern Vietnam, girls are disappearing — some as young as 13 years old. They are victims of bride [...]

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More than 25% of Modern Slavery Hotline Calls from Car Washes

MPs are calling for hand car washes to be required to get licenses to operate in order to prevent “modern slavery in plain [...]

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India’s child trafficking trade revealed

In a moving video report last week, the BBC revealed the staggering extent of India’s nationwide child trafficking network—a trade [...]

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U.S. lawmakers pass Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

U.S. lawmakers pass Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

The U.S. is set to become the first country to ban the import of all goods made in the Xinjiang or Uyghur Region of China following the [...]

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Modern slavery in the U.K. care sector

Care workers in the U.K. have been calling the national helpline for victims of modern slavery at an unprecedented rate since 2022, [...]

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L’Oréal and Estée Lauder perfumes stink of exploitative child labor

Egypt produces about half of the world’s supply of jasmine, a major ingredient for the perfume industry. But a recent investigation by [...]

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Cambodian journalist Mech Dara has been arrested for reporting on human trafficking linked to online scams in Southeast Asia

Cambodian journalist, Mech Dara, who exposed cyber slavery arrested

Mech Dara, an award-winning Cambodian journalist who spearheaded the investigation and reporting of cyber slavery and corruption in [...]

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