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Thursday, June 30

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Forced Labor Isn’t a Crime in Hong Kong. But That May Soon Change.

Hong Kong’s High Court held its first-ever judicial review on human trafficking this week, where lawyers argued that the city [...]

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Uniqlo Slammed by Indonesian Factory Workers

Warni Lena Napitupulu has never bought a Uniqlo product — she can’t afford to. Yet she, along with 2,000 other Indonesian factory [...]

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US Congress approves ban on Xinjiang imports, tying them to forced labour

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More than 50% of Hong Kong’s Domestic Workers Charged Illegal Fees

An undercover investigation has revealed that more than 50% of domestic workers in Hong Kong are still being charged illegally high [...]

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Indonesia’s Vanished Girls

Hundreds of girls have quietly disappeared from impoverished western half of Timor island and other parts of in Indonesia’s East Nusa [...]

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Online Services Give Hong Kong’s Domestic Workers More Bargaining Power

It was after midnight when Genelie Millan dragged herself back to her room, feeling exhausted and empty. She took out her phone and [...]

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Australia Exposes Voluntourism’s Great Hypocrisy

As the year comes to the close, many people consider giving their time or money to charities. But for those who are driven by [...]

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Hong Kong Hits Back at Tier 2 Watchlist Ranking Despite Waiver

Hong Kong was ranked in the Tier 2 Watchlist for the third consecutive year by the US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, narrowly [...]

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Victims Reveal Modern Slavery in Northeast China

Last April, 52 men in northeast China were freed after being locked up and forced to work after one man finally managed to escape and [...]

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“It’s Nothing Like the Movies”: On Patrol with Nepal’s Anti-Trafficking Activists

Photo credit: Miguel Candela There are no walls or fences between India and Nepal. The two countries share a relatively open border, [...]

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The Fine Print of Saudi Arabia's Child Marriage Ban

The Fine Print of Saudi Arabia’s Child Marriage Ban

Saudi Arabia is moving to ban child marriage, but activists warn that loopholes will continue to put children at risk of forced [...]

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Indonesians, Indians Top Trafficking Victims Identified in Hong Kong

A new handbook on trafficking victim identification has helped identify more than 60 cases of human trafficking in Hong Kong within the [...]

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Force-fed Vomit and Death Threats: Singapore’s Appalling Case of Abuse

A Singaporean couple has been jailed for horrendous abuses of their domestic worker in what prosecutors called “arguably one of the [...]

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Ruling in Hong Kong’s First Judicial Review on Forced Labor

An appeals court in Hong Kong has ruled in the city’s first-ever judicial review of forced labor and human trafficking. The three [...]

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Domestic Workers are the Slaves of Modern Asia

Last week Singapore sent a married couple to jail for force-feeding vomit to their domestic worker from Myanmar and threatening to kill [...]

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Lebanon’s financial crisis makes domestic workers more vulnerable to exploitation

More than One-Third of Domestic Worker Wages Go to Recruiters, Loans

Domestic workers in Hong Kong are pushing for a 25% pay raise as recruitment fees continue to skyrocket. In interviews with more than [...]

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US Hotline Reveals Filipinos as Top Victims of Domestic Slavery

The highest number of labor trafficking cases — nearly a quarter — reported to the US National Human Trafficking Hotline involved [...]

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