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Hugo Boss Discovers Forced Labor in its Supply Chain

Fashion retailer Hugo Boss says it has discovered cases of forced labor in its supply chain. Young Indian women working for Best [...]

Home Office Under Fire for “Muddled” Strategy as Hyland Resigns

Following the resignation of the UK’s independent anti-slavery commissioner, Kevin Hyland, campaigners are stepping up the [...]

UK Public Bought £14bn of Goods Made by Slaves in 2017

British consumers spent billions of pounds on imported products likely made using slave labor according to the new 2018 Global Slavery [...]

Post-Brexit, UK Wants Trafficking Victims to Pay

Theresa May’s government is coming under fire for its post-Brexit immigration plans after ministers said that EU victims of [...]

Why +40 Million People are Enslaved Today

Some 40.3 million people around the world are estimated to be victims of modern slavery — more than at any other time in history — [...]

400 Victims in UK’s Largest Modern Slavery Ring

The largest-ever modern slavery ring in the UK has been broken up after a three year investigation into the crimes of a Polish human [...]

The children laboring in Malawi’s fields for British American Tobacco

Life for children performing backbreaking work on Malawi’s tobacco farms is undoubtedly harsh: awake at 4AM, cutting into fields [...]

Outrage as government in Turkey proposes ‘marry your rapist’ law

The Turkish government is making its second bid to introduce a law granting amnesty to child rapists in Turkey if they marry their [...]

Amnesty scheme fails to adequately protect migrant workers in Italy

A spate of violence against migrant workers in Italy has underlined the exploitation and mistreatment they continue to face, despite a [...]

Chocolate companies face new charges of child slavery

Exploited on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast, eight Malian survivors of child exploitation and human trafficking have launched a new [...]

UK discriminates against trafficked mothers seeking asylum, court finds

U.K. discriminated against trafficked mothers seeking asylum

In a recent U.K. High Court ruling, the current modern slavery support system has been found to discriminate against trafficked mothers [...]

Where’s Edelyn? Filipina domestic worker vanishes in Saudi Arabia

In the middle of the night Edelyn Eborda Astudillo called her husband Crisanto in the Philippines, hoping to speak to her children. [...]

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

Number of trafficking survivors in U.K. detention increases

Alarming new data collected by FLEX, an organization working to end labor exploitation, has found that the number of trafficking [...]

Forced Labour Fashion

How the new law against forced labor in Xinjiang will impact fashion

On June 21, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) finally came into force. This law prevents any product partially or totally [...]

Outside of the Lusail stadium, strikingly gold against a blue sky

One month to kick-off but workers need much more

In exactly one month today, host nation Qatar will play Ecuador in the opening game of the soccer World Cup 2022. Eyes have been on [...]

Somaiya Begum, murdered in U.K. after refusing forced marriage

Somaiya Begum, a 20-year-old woman, was brutally murdered by her uncle after she refused a forced marriage in Pakistan. A U.K. court [...]

Migrant care workers exploited by unscrupulous employers in U.K.

General secretary of the U.K. healthcare trade union Unison, Christina McAnea, has written to the U.K.’s social care minister, Helen [...]

woman silhouette at airport in front of window looking out at planes

“Exit trafficking” – a new form of human trafficking

Australia has recognized – and prosecuted – a new form of human trafficking that focuses on the departure, instead of the arrival, of [...]

U.K. immigration system is harming survivors of sexual violence and modern slavery

Britain’s immigration system is a “public mental health concern” according to doctors from Royal College of Psychiatrists [...]

Protestor holding up a women lives matter sign

UK work ban pushes women into modern slavery and sexual exploitation

Across the UK, women fleeing violence, forced marriage, exploitation, and persecution are being retraumatized by the very systems meant [...]

Did UK Company Hire Former Child Soldiers?

A UK company, Aegis Defence Services, might have hired former child soldiers from Sierra Leona to work in Iraq in order to save money, [...]

Electronics and Slavery in Malaysia Casts Shadow

Electronics in Malaysia involves forced labor and sends a dark shadow over the industry.

Queen Supports Replicating Modern Slavery Act across Commonwealth

The Queen has asked lawmakers to replicate the 2015 Modern Slavery Act in the 52 Commonwealth nations. The Guardian reports: [...]

UK’s Nail Bars: Do Cheap Prices Mean Exploitation?

With the news that two people were recently arrested in the UK for trafficking Vietnamese girls to work in a nail salon, many are [...]