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Afghan Child Soldiers Too Young for War

The number of Afghan child soldiers is rising although the government has promised to do away with minor recruits...

Law Passed in Qatar Protects Domestic Workers’ Rights

Qatar approved a new law on Tuesday that limits the number of hours domestic workers can put in each day. This was the first to [...]

Australian Supply Chains and Modern Slavery

Australia is in the midst of creating legislation that would combat modern slavery, but the terms are proving to be contentious. A [...]

Nxivm ‘Self-Help’ Group Founder Arrested for Sex Trafficking

The co-founder and leader of “self-help” group Nxivm, Keith Raniere, has been arrested for sex trafficking female [...]

Australia Introduces Modern Slavery Bill, But No Penalties for Failing

The Australian government introduced the Modern Slavery Bill to parliament today, a move that will require some 3,000 companies to now [...]

Libya Traffickers Find New Scapegoat: Boat Drivers

The man charged with driving a boat full of 129 migrants to Europe from Libya had no idea how to sail. Traffickers had shoved him to [...]

Child Trafficking Rife in Picturesque Cartagena

Cartagena is one of Colombia’s top tourist destinations, with its historic architecture and easy access to white sand beaches. [...]

Why Abandoned Seafarers Risk Losing Everything if They Disembark

A captain and his 10-man crew have been stranded off the coast of the UAE for 18 months, abandoned at sea with no supplies, no wages, [...]

‘Babies born into slavery’: The trafficking crisis at Uganda’s orphanages

It’s not hard to find children — sometimes even babies — working on the streets of Kampala. Sitting on the streets, forced to beg [...]

Tech giants accused in lawsuit over DRC child mining deaths

Five of the world’s biggest tech firms have been implicated in the death and serious injury of children working in cobalt mines in the [...]

Migrant hotel workers in UAE face uncertain future amid pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic’s devastating impact on the hospitality industry has left many migrant hotel workers in the United Arab [...]

Payzee Mahmod - Ray Wells / Sunday Times

Payzee Mahmod continues fight to end child marriage in U.K. and warns of pandemic risk

Payzee Mahmod, the survivor-advocate leading Freedom United’s campaign to end child marriage in the United Kingdom, spoke with The [...]

U.K. rule change leaves survivors at increased risk of detention and deportation

An upcoming change in U.K. immigration law is set to increase the number of survivors of modern slavery detained and forcibly removed. [...]

Companies say there’s a labor shortage. Prisoners are their solution.

Companies across the United States are increasingly turning to prison labor programs as a source of cheap labor to address perceived [...]

U.K. sourced PPE from a supplier accused of forced labor

The United Kingdom will investigate claims that personal protective equipment (PPE) worn by the National Health Service staff during [...]

Ukrainian workers flee exploitation on U.K. farms

Hundreds of Ukrainians have allegedly fled conditions akin to modern slavery on U.K. farms. With an expired visa and unable to return [...]

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

Migrant domestic workers trafficked and abused in Oman

A new report has exposed how women from Sierra Leone have been trafficked into domestic work in Oman and trapped in abusive private [...]

No Uyghur justice in the U.K.

Freedom United partner organization, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), has disappointingly lost the legal challenge it brought against [...]

Refugee Ban Bill “morally unacceptable”

As the harmful Refugee Ban Bill progressed to the debate stage in the U.K.’s House of Lords this week, the archbishop of Canterbury [...]

NHS suppliers at “high risk” of modern slavery use

A review conducted by the U.K. Department of Health and Social Care found that over 20% of the 1,361 suppliers to the National Health [...]

The deadly effect of summer heat on migrant workers in Italy

It’s not surprising that we’re reporting on yet another form of labor exploitation in the city of Latina, Italy. Dalvir Singh, a [...]

The global decline of child marriage under threat

A 2023 UNICEF report revealed promising progress in the global fight against child marriage. The number of young women aged 20 to 24 [...]

Migrant Abuse is a Primary Business Risk

Migrant abuse is a primary risk for businesses. However, a recent report indicates that companies may actually be unaware how their [...]

ICT Companies That Must Do More

ICT companies like Canon, Hitachi, Samsung are vulnerable to slavery in their supply chains. But a new report says many must do more to [...]