Advocates are warning that Australia needs to decriminalize sex work if the country’s new modern slavery laws are to help those [...]
Source: The Guardian
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 [...]
Brothers Homeless Waiting to Testify Against Traffickers
Two brothers from Lithuania were at first relieved that their nightmare of forced labor had ended. But after they were freed, Eugaras [...]
New Zealand’s First Human Trafficking Conviction
New Zealand's first human trafficking conviction was of a Fijian man.
Is Prime Minister May Truly an Anti-Slavery Crusader?
This article in The Guardian, takes a look at British Prime Minister Theresa May and her renewed campaign against slavery in her [...]
The Sikhs Secretly Abused in Italy
Singh walked into a police station knowing the risks of what he was about to do. But as he explained, “I am a Sikh. And when a [...]
Why Do For-Profit US Prisons Subject Detainees to Forced Labor?
Last year officials at the Stewart immigration detention center put Shoaib Ahmed, a 24-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh, in solitary [...]
Kenyan Domestic Worker Assaulted by Mob in Lebanon Faces Deportation
Two Kenyan domestic workers were assaulted in a mob attack caught on video in broad daylight in Lebanon. The footage shows a man in the [...]