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Chez Maurice, Horror House for Syrian Women

In a house in Lebanon called Chez Maurice, the largest Lebanese human trafficking network to date has been discovered...

‘Human life is more expendable’: why slavery has never made more money

The average profit generated by a victim of modern slavery is $3,978 (£3,030) a year, according to Harvard economist Siddharth Kara. [...]

Only 4% of Australian Money Spent on Clothing Goes to Workers

The Guardian reports that only four cents from every dollar spent on clothing in Australia actually goes to the workers who endure [...]

Stephen’s Appeal to Stay in the UK Garners 120,000 Signatures

Stephen, the Vietnamese orphan who was trafficked to the UK from Vietnam at the age of 10 and forced to work in a cannabis factory, [...]

Fast Food Shop Owner Jailed in England for Slavery Offenses

An owner of fast food shops in northeast England has been jailed for eight and a half years after being found guilty of six modern [...]

UK Somali Teens Taken ‘on Holiday’ and Forced into Marriage

British Somali teenagers are being taken back to their parents’ homeland under the pretense of going on a holiday. However, some [...]

Private Prisons Hit with Class Action Lawsuit

Two of the United States’ largest private prison companies, CoreCivic and Geo Group, have been hit with yet another class action [...]

Super-Complaint Accuses Police of Fuelling Victims’ Trauma

The first “super-complaint” on modern slavery submitted to the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue [...]

Cyntoia Brown Freed at Last in Tennessee

Cytnoia Brown, a survivor of child sex trafficking who has been behind bars for the last 15 years, is finally free. Brown was finally [...]

Zimbabwe’s child sugarcane laborers: “I’ve never been to school”

Children as young as seven are performing backbreaking labor on Zimbabwe’s sugarcane plantations, all for just $1 a week in pay. [...]

Qatar’s annual workers’ welfare report reignites calls for labor reforms

A total of 34 migrant laborers working on World Cup stadiums in Qatar have died in the six-year period since construction began, [...]

How one Nigerian woman managed to bring her trafficker to justice in Italy

The inspiring story of Susan, shared this week as part of the Guardian’s Long Read series of in-depth essays, represents a rare success [...]

Lower house of U.K. parliament to vote on declaring Uyghur oppression a genocide

The House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the U.K.’s parliament, is set to vote next week on a motion to declare the [...]

U.K. imposes GPS tags on migrants on immigration bail

Trafficking survivors face alarming possibility of constant surveillance

The Guardian reports on discriminatory move by the U.K.’s interior ministry (Home Office) against migrants which has implications [...]

Significant rise in so-called ‘honor-based’ abuse cases in U.K.

Advocates campaigning against honor-based abuse (HBA) in the U.K. have expressed alarm over data that shows an increase of 81% of HBA [...]

U.K. anti-slavery tsar calls out government’s failings

In an opinion piece for the Guardian, the U.K.’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Dame Sara Thornton calls out the Home Office for [...]

U.K. Home Office dashed trafficking survivor’s dreams of Olympic boxing medal

Kelvin Bilal Fawaz was trafficked from Nigeria into domestic servitude in the United Kingdom as a child. After escaping his [...]

Grounds to suspect Shamima Begum was trafficked, court hears

Police should have investigated whether Shamima Begum was a victim of human trafficking and helped her return if she was, a court [...]

Freefall in corporate commitment to fight modern slavery

The U.K.’s requirement for companies to submit modern slavery statements is being ignored. Therefore the government is expected to [...]

image of tons of emissions from a factory and a boat

Uyghur forced labor linked to carbon credit scheme

South Pole, the world’s largest carbon consultancy, sells carbon credits for companies seeking to offset their carbon emissions. A [...]

person behind chain link fence in an immigration detention center

Shocking conditions at U.K. immigrant removal center reveal “contempt for human life”

A damning report just revealed the shocking conditions of an immigration removal center close to Heathrow Airport in the U.K. According [...]

British recruitment agency loses license after Indonesian workers are found in debt bondage

U.K. recruitment agency loses license after workers are found in debt bondage

Banyu (not his real name) lost his job in Bali at the beginning of the pandemic. So, when he heard of an organization recruiting [...]

UK Firms Must Prove No Links to Slavery

Legislation requiring large companies to publish evidence online is designed to force them to take responsibility for working [...]

UN Children’s Fund: Disturbing Figures

The UN Children's Fund released figures this week that indicate nearly a forth of all school children in the world are living in [...]