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Will 8-Year-Old Boy be Forced into Marriage?

UK officials are trying to prevent an 8-year-old boy from being forced into a child marriage. And there are scores of other children [...]

Stand Up to the World’s Richest Nation and Oppose Modern Slavery

The Qatari government continues to fail in reforming its migrant labor system. Its kafala sponsorship system means migrant workers live [...]

Domestic Workers Win Supreme Court Case Against Saudi Diplomat

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two domestic workers in the UK who were exploited by their former employer, Jarallah al-Malki, [...]

Victims Testify Against Traffickers But End Up Homeless

Victims of human trafficking are testifying against their traffickers in court in Britain, but many of them are ending up homeless due [...]

Survivor: Forced Marriage is Not a ‘Cultural Practice’ — It’s Modern Slavery

Survivors of forced marriage in the UK are calling for the crime to be treated as a form of modern slavery and for perpetrators to be [...]

‘This is Human Trafficking’: After Maria, Puerto Rico to Move 3,200 Inmates to Arizona

Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico last year, leaving many parts of the island in disrepair. In the aftermath, Puerto Rico’s [...]

Forced Marriage Activist at Center of Sexual Harassment Case

Jasvinder Sanghera, the founder of charity Karma Nirvana and vocal campaigner against forced marriage, has revealed that she is the [...]

Uyghur Governor Suggests Xinjiang Camps May Be Phased Out

Officials in Xinjiang are hinting that China’s controversial detention camps — where forced labor has been alleged — may one day [...]

Is Fairtrade Finished?

Fairtrade changed the way many Western consumers shopped, but a perplexing trend is putting the very idea of fair trade in question — [...]

Cuba’s secret deal with Qatar to take up to 90% of doctors’ wages

West of Doha in the middle of the desert you’ll find a small hospital. In front are two flags—one of Qatar and one of Cuba. And [...]

Young woman retrafficked as UK repeatedly fails to provide support

An extremely vulnerable young victim of trafficking and sexual exploitation has been failed several times by the UK’s interior [...]

11 years in prison for Samoan chief who enslaved villagers

A Samoan chief in New Zealand who made headlines earlier this year for enslaving villagers was on Monday sentenced to 11 years in [...]

U.S. escalates action against Top Glove with total rubber glove import ban

The U.S. has banned the import of all rubber gloves from the world’s largest manufacturer, Top Glove, as a result of forced and [...]

New U.K. ‘watchdog’ to safeguard workers against exploitation

The U.K. government has recently announced a plan to establish a government body to guard against worker exploitation including [...]

Landmark judgement could see trafficking survivors granted leave to remain

Landmark judgment could see trafficking survivors granted leave to remain

A week after losing a legal challenge regarding its policy that denies asylum seekers the right to work, the U.K. Home Office, which is [...]

Sex workers’ social media site forced to shut down due to laws purporting to tackle trafficking

Switter, a social media site set up in 2018 by Assembly Four, an Australian collective of sex workers and technology experts, has shut [...]

How traffickers are using U.K. universities

The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) is a U.K. body whose role is to protect vulnerable and exploited workers. Through [...]

U.K. can no longer claim to be a world leader in tackling modern slavery

The UN is set to review the U.K.’s human rights record in its universal periodic review (UPR) this week, which is anticipated to result [...]

Freedom United calls on U.K. government to withdraw harmful Refugee Ban Bill

This week Freedom United joined a group of NGOs, advocates and academics in sending a letter to U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urging [...]

U.S. prison work programs are “legalized slavery”

The U.S. has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world – housing over 20% of the world’s prison population while having [...]

Florida’s deadly forced prison labor system

Florida’s prison system, the third largest in the U.S., relies heavily on forced labor to keep its facilities running and support [...]

Australia fails to protect workers from domestic servitude

Never having visited another country, Priyanka Danaratna enthusiastically accepted an offer to move from Sri Lanka to Australia to work [...]

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Kmart court case reveals Australia’s toothless modern slavery protections

A recent court case brought against Kmart in Australia is highlighting how legislation once hailed as landmark is now worth little more [...]

Labubu: Scary toys, even scarier working conditions

A labor rights investigation has raised serious concerns about the exploitative working conditions inside the supply chain of Labubu [...]