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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 accused of forced child labor in Malawi seek to dismiss case

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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 [...]

U.K. accused of subjecting survivors to long periods of solitary confinement

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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.