A U.N. General Assembly think tank, and the private anti-slavery Freedom Fund has said that "Slavery persists because we let it persist"...
Source: Daily Mail
Foreign Worker Brokers Compound Abuses
By Megan Twohey, Mica Rosenberg and Ryan McNeill NEW YORK Feb 19 (Reuters) - Nestor Molina has made a living looking for Honduran [...]
Global Slavery Index Reports 45 Million Slaves
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Oxfam: Supermarkets Must Help End Abuses at Bottom of Supply Chain
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Indian Religious leaders Agree to Fight Slavery
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First Comprehensive Indian Law Against Trafficking
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Babies Sold for $1,375 on Instagram
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Slave Workforce Rescued in UK
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Indian Children Forced To Beg
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Seventeen Australians Trapped in Xinjiang Labor Camps
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Did the U.S. State Department Spare Oman?
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Forced Marriage Statistics
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Cambodian Villagers Sue U.S. and Thai Employers
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$1 Million Awarded to Child Workers of Utah Fundamentalist Sect
A judge has ordered a Utah contracting company to pay $1 million in unpaid wages to 104 children of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus [...]
Witness Protection before Thai Trafficking Trial Starts?
A major human trafficking trial is about to begin in Thailand and activists are calling for a strong witness protection program...
“Blood Bricks” of Bonded Slaves
Blood bricks, made by slaves trying hopelessly to pay off debt at the many kilns in India and elsewhere, are the materials from which [...]
Myanmar Downgraded Again
Myanmar downgraded again by the United States. It will be put it on the global list of worst offenders regarding human trafficking in [...]
Three arrested over modern slavery at Welsh care homes
Three men have been arrested in a police raid on two care homes in Wales over claims that staff were victims of modern slavery. Gwent [...]
A Sex Trafficking Survivor Reaches Out to Help Underaged Girls
Sunita Duanwar was just 14 when she was trapped in a Mumbai brothel, sold into the sex industry and locked in a room until she was [...]
Indian Law Allows Working Children
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Bahrain and India Agree to Curb Trafficking
Bahrain and India have both agreed in an official statement to work together to curb human trafficking, to rescue victims, and to offer [...]
TIP Report Released–Myanmar Downgraded
Today's Trafficking in Persons report (TIP) was watched closely by human rights advocates. United States placed Myanmar, Uzbekistan, [...]