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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 [...]

Documentary: Forgotten Girls of Dhaka

Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh. On its northern outskirts is a slum called Duaripara that serves as home to more than 40,000 [...]

Airlines Encouraged to Train Staff to Identify Trafficking Victims

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is asking airlines to distribute information to passengers, cargo workers and staff, that [...]

The Truth about Canned Italian Tomatoes

It has been discovered that canned tomatoes sold by two giant food producers in the UK have been harvested in Italy under conditions [...]

NHS Admits Surgical Tools Could be Made from Child Labor

Doctors in the UK may very well be using surgical tools made by children as young as 12 years-old according to The Guardian. Pakistani [...]

Portraits of Mauritania’s Former Slaves

In 1981 Mauritania became the last country in the world to make slavery illegal. Yet decades on, slavery persists despite government [...]

Opinion: “Prison Labor is Modern Slavery. I’ve Been Sent to Solitary for Speaking Out”

A nationwide strike is underway in US prisons, potentially becoming the largest protest of incarcerated men and women in American [...]

£40 a Week to Build Qatar’s World Cup Stadiums

Qatar is the world’s wealthiest per capita state, but many migrant workers building grand World Cup stadiums in preparation for [...]

Child Cases of Modern Slavery Double in UK

The number of cases of modern slavery involving children in the UK has doubled in the past year according to new data from the National [...]

“I’m a Victim of Slavery but I’m Just Seen as an Immigration Problem”

Nancy Esiovwa escaped slavery five years ago in Bedfordshire, where she was beaten and worked without pay in a family home. But she [...]