Some 40.3 million people around the world are estimated to be victims of modern slavery — more than at any other time in history — [...]
Source: The Guardian
400 Victims in UK’s Largest Modern Slavery Ring
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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Mother Jailed in First-Ever Conviction for Forced Marriage in England
A woman in Birmingham has been jailed for four and a half years for forcing her 17-year-old daughter to travel to Pakistan and wed a [...]
Modern Slavery Costs UK up to £4.3 Billion a Year
The UK Home Office published a new report this week that estimates that modern slavery costs the country up to £4.3 billion a year. [...]
Peru Ex-Chief Arrested for Selling Poor Women’s Babies
A former police chief in Peru, Raul Becerra, and his partner, Cintia Tello, were arrested on Tuesday for their role in a baby [...]
Yazidis Fleeing ISIS Start Over in Female-Only Commune
Berivan and her mother were kidnapped by ISIS in 2014 back in their homeland of Sinjar in Iraq. But today, they’re part of a [...]
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