In a house in Lebanon called Chez Maurice, the largest Lebanese human trafficking network to date has been discovered...
Source: The Guardian
‘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 [...]
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 on companies to submit modern slavery statements is being ignored. Therefore the government is expected to [...]
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 [...]
Close loopholes that allow forced child marriage in the UK
Four co-chairs of Girls Not Brides UK call for action to stop forced marriage. In a statement published in The Guardian, Naana [...]
Exploited Fruit Pickers in Victoria ‘Brainwashed’
An undercover Malaysian journalist has uncovered abuses of migrant workers working on fruit farms in Victoria, Australia. Saiful Hasam, [...]
The Foreign Diplomats Who Enslave Domestic Workers
The Salvation Army Freedom Partnership says exploited domestic workers hired by foreign diplomats in Australia face “unparalleled [...]