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Natural disasters and Vulnerable Children

Natural disasters make the work of human traffickers easy. They can easily exploit people--adults and children--in the midst of the chaos...

The Traffickers Exploiting Children in Haiti’s Orphanages

There are over 30,000 children in orphanages in Haiti. But as CNN reports, the government believes that 80% of them aren’t [...]

Facebook Fails to Save Child Bride from Auction

Facebook has come under fire for allowing the “barbaric use of technology” that led to a girl in South Sudan being married [...]

Enes Kanter calls out Nike for ignoring Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region

Enes Kanter calls out Nike on Uyghur forced labor

Days after calling out the Chinese government for the detention and forced labor of Uyghurs, NBA player for the Boston Celtics, Enes [...]

Tea Plantations and Human Trafficking

Young girls living on or near tea plantations --poor, uneducated, and from families in heavy debt--are easy targets for traffickers..

60% of Domestic Workers in Singapore Exploited

A new report from Research Across Borders finds that 60% of domestic workers in Singapore say they have been exploited by their [...]

Drought Gives Families ‘No Choice’ But to Sell Children

A severe drought in Afghanistan has led to families facing an impossible choice: starve or sell your own children to survive? For four [...]

A man holding a blue flag and a sign saying Free Uighur

Activist urges companies to stop benefiting from Uyghur forced labor

Jewher Ilham is one of the main activists of the Coalition to End Forced Labor in the Uyghur Region and is the author of the recent [...]

Most Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram Still Missing

Most of the 278 girls kidnapped from their school dorm in Nigeria two years ago by Boko Haram, are still missing. When the news was [...]

UK Lawmakers Debate Libyan Slave Markets

On Monday British lawmakers expressed their outrage about Libyan slave markets. Footage captured by CNN exposed the selling of African [...]

UN: Girls Make Up 23% of World’s Trafficking Victims

A new report from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has found that the number of trafficked girls rose worldwide, [...]

WE DID IT! California repeals harmful loitering law

In a win for trafficking victims’ and sex workers’ rights, California’s Governor Newsom signed the Safer Streets for All Act into law [...]

Teens Drugged and Smuggled to China

Teens from Vietnam are drugged and smuggled into China to become child brides. Some are as young as 13-years-old and captured by human [...]

What Stops Jordan’s Domestic Workers from Seeking Help?

Isa Al-Maeda says life was difficult as a farmer in the Philippines, but at least she was near her siblings and parents. Wanting her [...]

Joy as Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency

After 15 years behind bars, Cyntoia Denise Brown has at last been granted clemency by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. She is due to be [...]

Partnerships & survivor leadership highlighted in Trafficking in Persons report

On the recent release of the U.S. Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, some advocates are filling in the perceived gaps found in the [...]

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 [...]