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Friday, May 9

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At the nexus of poverty and organ trafficking: the village of “Kidney Valley”

In Nepal, there is a village that is nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, officially called Hokse, but commonly known as [...]

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Has UK Government Failed Modern Slavery Victims?

The former UK anti-slavery commissioner, Kevin Hyland, says the British government is providing sufficient funding, but has been too [...]

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Albanian Gangs Linked to Trafficking Surge

Sophisticated Albanian gangs are being linked to the surge in trafficking victims brought to the UK. Statistics from the National Crime [...]

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The Verdict is In for the UK Modern Slavery Act

An independent review of the UK Modern Slavery Act is finally in, and the verdict isn’t good. The report’s authors write [...]

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Increase in modern slavery victims exploited in doorstep scams

Organized criminal gangs are increasingly using victims of modern slavery to carry out door-to-door scams,  the UK’s National Trading [...]

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Boohoo faces U.S. import ban over modern slavery allegations

Boohoo faces U.S. import ban over modern slavery allegations

Allegations of the use of forced labor in their supply chain have left the U.K.’s fastest-growing fashion retailer Boohoo and its [...]

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Secret government policy prioritizes immigration targets over rights

Secret government policy prioritizes immigration targets over rights

The U.K. High Court criticized the government’s deportation of a survivor of trafficking, identified as AA, describing the action [...]

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Whistleblower shares tales of torture in Uyghur Region

Whistleblower shares accounts of torture in Uyghur Region

An ex-police detective turned whistleblower now residing in Europe and known as Jiang has shared his experience working in the Uyghur [...]

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U.K.’s system to support trafficking victims is failing

Sky News reports that the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), the system through which trafficking victims are identified and supported [...]

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Forced labor camp survivor suing British government for “dragging its heels”

Forced labor camp survivor suing British government for “dragging its heels”

“I’m lucky I’m in a free country now. But I can’t not think about people who I left behind. I don’t know [...]

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U.K.’s complicity in modern slavery through its supply chains

The launch of the latest Global Slavery Index this week by anti-modern slavery and international human rights group Walk Free paints a [...]

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‘If I go back, I will be murdered’: a trafficking survivor’s reality under the Illegal Migration Act

The reality of Anna (pseudonym), a sex trafficking survivor, facing unlawful removal from the U.K. demonstrates the abominable dangers [...]

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