Australia just signed a regional agreement committing to tackle the issue of people smuggling. It includes a recommendation that [...]
Source: The Guardian
Technology Tracks Illegal Fishing Industry
Technology can now track the illegal fishing industry.
French Holding Camp in Vietnam Where Victims Await Exploitation
There are details of a holding camp in Northern France, reports The Guardian, where young vulnerable Vietnamese are housed before they [...]
Advocates: Modern Slavery Laws Should Decriminalize Sex Work
Advocates are warning that Australia needs to decriminalize sex work if the country’s new modern slavery laws are to help those [...]
More Than 1,000 Cases of Forced Marriage in UK in 2017
The UK government received 1,196 reports of potential cases of forced marriage last year. The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU), which handles [...]
Trafficking Victims “Shoved into System with No Control over Their Lives”
Potential victims of modern slavery in the UK are being ‘traumatized’ as they wait for the Home Office to decide on their [...]
Qatar’s Kempinski Hotel Accused of Forced Labor
The Marsa Malaz Kempinski hotel is one of Qatar’s most opulent luxury hotels with its car parks lined with Ferraris and [...]
Why Egypt Became a Hub for Organ Trafficking
Dawitt escaped Eritrea when he was just 13-years-old to avoid forced conscripted labor at the hands of the military. Smugglers took him [...]
Child Trafficking Victim Wins £85,000 Over Attempted Rape
A Vietnamese boy has been awarded £85,000 in compensation from the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice after he was illegally [...]
Former UK anti-slavery chief Kevin Hyland slams government for failures
Kevin Hyland, the UK’s former independent anti-slavery commissioner, is speaking out about the failures of the UK government in [...]
Traffickers target Hungary’s most marginalized communities online
Increasing numbers of Hungarians are being lured by false promises of a better life into modern slavery in the UK, The Guardian [...]
Australia’s anti-slavery efforts risk being derailed by business interests
Campaigners and legal advocates have decried the fact that Australia’s newly appointed expert panel to tackle modern slavery is [...]
Home Office rejects 12-month support for trafficking victims
Despite repeated calls from trafficking survivors, activists, and anti-slavery organizations to expand support for survivors of modern [...]
Tobacco companies seek to dismiss Malawi forced child labor case
Two major U.K. tobacco firms accused of exploiting farmers and their children in Malawi have requested that the case against them be [...]
Decriminalization of sex work in Victoria could help prevent trafficking
Victoria may follow New South Wales and the Northern Territory in fully decriminalizing sex work as a new bill is due to be introduced [...]
Data exposes U.K.’s revictimization of confirmed trafficking survivors
As the Nationality and Borders Bill went to the House of Lords – the U.K. parliament’s upper house – for debate this week, new data [...]
Trafficking victims traumatized by indefinite immigration detention in U.K.
This week, a U.K. high court judge rejected requests from three Sudanese victims of trafficking and torture, who had been threatened [...]
Number of trafficking victims detained in prison-like settings triples
A new report exposes damning evidence: the U.K. government is locking up trafficking victims with the number tripling in the last four [...]
U.K. police report victims of sexual exploitation to immigration
Documents from the U.K. Home Office show that between 2020 and 2022, police reported 2,546 women and children to immigration [...]
New investigation says FIFA failed migrant workers in Qatar
A new investigation by Amnesty International has concluded that FIFA failed migrant workers in Qatar during the 2022 World Cup and [...]
The E.U. CSDDD – What is left after compromise?
After extensive negotiations and a near-failure to be passed, the European Council Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) and [...]
U.S. at critical juncture as child labor violations continue to rise
Child labor violations across the U.S. are rising as lawmakers have been rolling back state child labor protections. The U.S. is at a [...]
US labor groups sue to block “wasteful” international program cuts
The Solidarity Center, Global March Against Child Labour, and the American Institutes for Research are filing a lawsuit against the US [...]
Civil rescue groups in Mediterranean cut ties with Libyan Coast Guard
More than a dozen civil rescue groups working in the Mediterranean have stopped all communication with the Libyan Coast Guard after [...]
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