On the recent release of the U.S. Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, some advocates are filling in the perceived gaps found in the [...]
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Next President Must Prioritize Human Trafficking, An Editorial
Will our next president be committed to ending slavery? The crime of human trafficking is second only to illegal drug trade worldwide, [...]
Why Measuring Modern Slavery is Crucial to Fighting It
According to research by the Walk Free Foundation and the International Labour Organization, in 2016 there were 40.3 million people [...]
Pregnant Women Risk Lives Picking World’s Tea
Rama is six months pregnant and worried about giving birth to her child. She’s just 22, earning a living by picking tea leaves on [...]
Opinion: Is protecting children from labor exploitation a distant dream?
Norma Bastidas, Survivor and Ultra Marathoner
Norma Bastidas is a 49-year-old mother-of-two. She is also a human trafficking survivor. She is also an ultra-marathoner who has [...]
Singapore’s Unpaid Migrant Workers
Although Singapore is known as an efficient, developed country, for many migrant workers from South Asia it is a huge struggle to be [...]
New York Street Art Shines a Light on Child Trafficking
A new campaign is using six graffiti murals in New York City to raise awareness of child slavery around the world. NGO Street Art for [...]
Opinion: Is protecting children from labor exploitation a distant dream?
The following is an opinion piece written by executive director of Freedom United, Joanna Ewart-James, for CNN. A 16-year-old boy from [...]
Margeaux Gray–Trafficking and Public Health
Margeaux Gray is a remarkable young woman who not only survived physical and emotional captivity, she is teaching us that trafficking [...]
Why Migrants Risk Slavery to Reach Europe
So far this year over 10,000 migrants have attempted to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. Yet many ask, especially with the news [...]
After Escaping ISIS, Yazidis Face Sex Traffickers in Baghdad
Nadia (not her real name) was living in Sinjar in northern Iraq in 2014 when ISIS subjected thousands of women and girls like her to [...]
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Who is fighting the fight against trafficking?
Cuba, Kenya and Saudi Arabia are doing better at fighting human trafficking. Egypt, Ghana and Bulgaria are doing worse.
Slavery Still Exists in the Land of the Free
It has been more than 150 years since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and though laws have been passed against it almost [...]
US Senate Passes SESTA, Online Sex Trafficking Bill
The United States Senate has passed an online sex trafficking bill that would allow victims of the crime to sue online platforms that [...]
Rescued Trafficked Nigerians Held in Abhorrent Shelters
Nigerian women rescued from trafficking in Libya have been returned to Nigeria and placed in “abhorrent” shelters. Many of [...]
Enlist or die: Sudan’s descent into famine, violence, and forced conscription
In mid-December 2023, Sudan’s breadbasket, Al Jazira state, witnessed a chilling ultimatum: “Enlist or die.” The [...]
CNN and Harvard’s Belfer Center Partner to fight human trafficking
Harvard Kennedy School to host special panel event 'Fight for Freedom: Confronting Modern-Day Slavery' Oct. 21 The CNN Freedom Project [...]
US Lists China as One of Worst Trafficking Offenders
China was recently downgraded to level 3, the lowest level, because so much human trafficking occurs in the country. The report says [...]
The Price of ‘Green’ Electric Cars and Smartphone Batteries? Child Labor.
An investigation by CNN has uncovered that children are working at cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). They labor [...]
In rare move, US blocks imports of goods linked to forced labor
For the second time this year, US Customs and Border Protection has halted the import of goods suspected of being produced using forced [...]
Europe in crisis as migrant children disappear daily
The alarming trend of migrant children disappearing daily across Europe continues to escalate, with recent research revealing that [...]
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