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While many think of Chinese New Year as a time for parades and colorful fireworks, for thousands of Chinese construction workers the [...]

In the face of overwork and wage theft, Sara, a domestic worker in Beirut, recalls how her employer demanded receipts and counted every [...]

The UN’s first International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) got underway this week, a platform to assess how member states are [...]

“The charade is over now. The spectacle is long done. But plenty of migrant workers remain in Qatar. And they are still [...]

Indian Minister for Women & Child Development Smt Maneka Gandhi is likely to table India’s new anti-trafficking bill in the [...]

Potential victims of trafficking referred to the U.K.’s system for identifying people who have experienced trafficking – the National [...]

53 people have now died from hyperthermia trapped in a sealed truck found in Texas, 160 miles from the U.S. Mexico border where outside [...]

In the anti-trafficking sector, a high value is often placed on survivors’ stories and first-hand accounts of trafficking and modern [...]

Photo credit: ILO/Asrian Mirza A quarter of the world’s manufacturing is for the electronics sector. It employs millions of [...]

Contributors at openDemocracy have begun a policy debate on the effects of philanthrocapitalism on the anti-trafficking field. Venture [...]

The U.K. is failing to provide adequate support for trafficking victims, according to the 2022 Trafficking in Persons report. The [...]

When a survivor panellist at Amazon’s Tech Against Trafficking Summit in Seattle last year explained how data sharing with law [...]

Why do so many interventions to stop human trafficking fail? Because politicians are less interested in adopting policies that [...]

Is modern slavery a disease like the coronavirus? Is it a “stain” on otherwise spotless companies’ reputations? Dr. Ras and [...]

Earlier this year, India’s Supreme Court officially defined sex work as a profession, calling for an end to police violence against sex [...]

The U.K. has just passed the Illegal Migration Act into law in a devastating attack on the rights of migrants, refugees, and [...]