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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 [...]

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 [...]

Iraqi girl killed after resisting forced marriage

Trigger warning: this article contains references to physical and sexual violence The killing of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl is sparking [...]

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 [...]