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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 [...]

Rise in forced underage marriages in Lebanon

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 [...]

Apple Factory Forced Chinese Students to Work ‘Like Robots’

Apple says it is investigating one of its supplier factories in southwest China now that it has emerged that Chinese students were [...]

My Boyfriend Sold One of My Kidneys – Then He Sold Me

Each day, some 100,000 people cross the border between Nepal and India, some on on foot, others in trucks or on bikes, mopeds and [...]

UK Victims Care Bill petition hand-in at the Home Office

Home Office Scraps ‘Nonsensical’ 45-Day-Limit on Victim Support

The UK Home Office has officially scrapped its ‘nonsensical’ policy of limiting victims of modern slavery to 45-days of [...]

‘They see us as slaves’: Kenyan women head for the Gulf despite fears

In a busy recruitment agency in Nairobi, women line the halls in hope of securing a job as a domestic worker in the Gulf. It [...]

Modern slavery lurks behind cheap nail bars

A recent police raid on a London nail bar salon suspected of trapping migrant workers in modern slavery resulted in three arrests on [...]

U.K. failing to support thousands of potential trafficking victims

A new study has revealed that thousands of potential trafficking victims in the U.K. are not referred for vital services—despite [...]

Young girl forced into marriage failed by authorities

Authorities in Pakistan are coming under fire for failing to act after a 12-year-old girl was reportedly abducted, chained up for six [...]

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

Trigger warning: this story includes references to self-harm and suicide. The Home Office, the interior ministry of the U.K. [...]

Australian senate passes forced labor bill

The Australian senate has passed a bill introduced by independent senator Rex Patrick banning the import of goods made with forced [...]

“Unacceptable” welfare conditions for foreign workers on U.K. farms

A government review has found that seasonal workers who had come to the U.K. to harvest fruit and vegetables on a post-Brexit pilot [...]

Modern slavery on the rise in U.K. care sector

Amid a significant labor shortage, the U.K.’s care sector is currently facing a surge in cases of labor exploitation and debt bondage, [...]

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

U.K. takes alarming decision to classify modern slavery as immigration issue

The U.K. Home Office has taken the shocking decision to remove modern slavery from the remit of the safeguarding minister and place it [...]

Thai Tesco supplier accused of exploitation faces criminal charges

A clothing factory that made jeans for the Thai branch of the British store Tesco faces criminal charges over its mistreatment of [...]

Kenyan women continue protest against kafala system in Lebanon

Kenyan domestic workers demand protection from exploitation & abuse in Gulf countries

A legal case being brought by a group of almost a dozen Kenyan former domestic workers who worked in Gulf states alleges the Kenyan [...]

Forced to be a “human shield” in Myanmar: Abdullah’s story

The Rohingya population in Myanmar were stripped of their citizenship rights decades ago. And now, due to the ongoing conflict, they [...]

Will the U.K. finally recognize survivors of modern slavery?

Following numerous reports that trafficking survivors had been waiting years to be identified as victims of modern slavery, the U.K. [...]

Starbucks heads to court over complicity in trafficking and forced labor of coffee workers in Brazil

Starbucks sued over complicity in trafficking and forced labor of coffee workers in Brazil

On April 24, 2025, the advocacy group International Rights Advocates (IRA) filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Starbucks. The [...]

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43 women allege they were trafficked by Opus Dei

For decades, members of Opus Dei, a powerful Catholic organization with a global presence, allegedly trafficked dozens of girls in [...]