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The 2012 Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act (POSCO) in India is intended to safeguard children from sexual abuse. Among [...]

In an opinion piece for openDemocracy, a human rights lawyer called for the United Kingdom to end its complicity in forced labor in [...]

“Child labor isn’t going anywhere, so children’s safety in work must become the priority.” Writing in Open Democracy, [...]

Survivors of human trafficking and exploitation in India face significant hurdles in accessing the support they need to rebuild their [...]

Where does forced labor come from? What are the root causes? Often this is traced back to two explanations: poverty and globalization, [...]

Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the exploitation, inequality, and [...]

Trafficking survivors in the United Kingdom already face many barriers to receiving the support they need to recover and to better [...]

Though child soldiers are subjected to horrific conditions including forced labor, sexual exploitation and gender-based violence, too [...]

There are over 2 million domestic workers in the Philippines, but many of them continue to face the same problems as their peers around [...]

Undocumented migrant workers that provide the bulk of seasonal labor in Greece’s strawberry farms have reported suffering increased [...]

In an opinion piece for openDemocracy, researchers Rose Broad and David Gadd explore how the U.K.’s controversial Nationality and [...]

The U.K. is struggling with a serious child exploitation crisis with children as young as seven being used on the frontlines of drug [...]

France has made great progress in advancing domestic workers’ rights through union organizing, but the government still has yet [...]

Writing in openDemocracy’s Palermo Protocol 20th anniversary special last week, the International Committee on the Rights of Sex [...]

Children’s experiences of work and the effects of anti-trafficking interventions are explored in openDemocracy’s new series [...]

The U.K.’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman has repeatedly come under fire for making baseless claims about modern slavery and human [...]