The Guardian

Alarming rise in modern slavery reports in U.K. care sector

New data reveals the number of potential modern slavery victims in the U.K. care sector reached a record high last year with an [...]

Armani, Asos implicated in forced labor, report finds

Armani, Calvin Klein and other big brands implicated in forced labor

Leading fashion brands, including Barbour and PVH (Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger owner), have pledged over $400,000 to compensate [...]

Forced child marriages written on a crumbled piece of paper with two rings next to it

“Marriage competition” for 14-year-old South Sudanese girl

Recent data on South Sudan shows that 52% of girls are married before their 18th birthday, with some as young as 12 years old. Despite [...]

He’s a survivor and whistle-blower on slavery at sea, now he’s facing deportation

He’s a survivor of slavery at sea, now he’s facing deportation

Vishal Sharma is an experienced merchant seaman who became trapped in modern slavery. Now, despite testifying in court and appearing in [...]

Behind the screens: inside Cambodia’s growing cyber-slavery crisis

A South Korean student was recently found dead in a car in Cambodia, a suspected victim of forced labor. Tragically, he is just one of [...]

Men with working together to stack hand made bricks

Trapped in debt, workers sell their organs to survive

For families working in brick kilns across Pakistan, debt is not just a burden—it shapes entire lives. Workers describe being born into [...]

Nestlé Says Slave Labour a Risk

Nestlé and Jacobs Douwe Egberts admit that beans from Brazilian plantations which use slave labor be in their coffee. They are two of [...]

Modern Day Slavery in UK Increasing

Are efforts to stop modern slavery in the UK failing? In the last five years, the number of victims that land in Britain seem to be [...]

Australia Pushed to Ban Orphanage Tourism

The Guardian reports that Australia is being encouraged to ban orphanage tourism. In Cambodia alone, it is estimated that 80% of [...]

UK Police Rescue 9 Victims from British Trawlers

UK police have rescued nine victims of forced labor who were working on British scallop trawlers. The nine men are from Ghana, Sri [...]

Parliament Watchdog: Home Office has No Way of Monitoring Success

The UK Home Office has no way of measuring or monitoring its success in combatting modern slavery according to a new report from a [...]

Ireland Downgraded to Tier 2 as US Cites Abuses in Irish Fishing

Ireland has been downgraded to Tier 2 in the latest Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report released by the US State Department. The US TIP [...]

Detained Surrogate: ‘I Will Not Give Them the Baby’

Thirty-three Cambodian surrogates were arrested back in June during a raid on an illegal surrogacy ring. In the aftermath, a Chinese [...]

Report Exposes Abuses of Home-Based Garment Workers

Home-based women and girls working in India’s garment sector are earning as little as 11p (15 cents) an hour to supply clothing [...]

Trafficking Convictions in Landmark UK Drug Ferrying Case

Three gang members have been convicted of human trafficking in a major ‘county lines’ case that saw them force six [...]

#HelpingNotHelping: JK Rowling urges students not to volunteer at orphanages

JK Rowling is calling of students to stop volunteering at orphanages based on the clear evidence that “orphanage tourism” [...]

Peak in exploitation: youth services vacuum filled by drug gangs

Levels of child exploitation have peaked in the UK, resembling similar conditions to the Victorian era. A lack of youth facilities and [...]

Refugee victims of modern slavery struggling to cope during pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is devastating already vulnerable refugees and internally displaced people around the world, a new study [...]

Pope Francis: Uyghurs are a “persecuted” people

In the latest high-profile recognition of the events taking place in the Uyghur Region, the Pope has acknowledged for the first time [...]

U.K. rule change leaves survivors at increased risk of detention and deportation

Tighter U.K. border controls only fuel exploitation

The Guardian reports that border crossings to the U.K. are not deterred by stricter border security or closed borders. To the contrary, [...]

U.K. rushes to deport Vietnamese trafficking survivors

The U.K.’s interior ministry has come under fire yet again this week for speeding up the deportation process of Vietnamese nationals [...]

Trafficking survivors in the U.K. entitled to claim axed financial support, court rules

The U.K. government cut financial support for trafficking survivors who had claimed asylum and were being housed in hotels in July [...]

FIFA must compensate workers behind the 2022 World Cup

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Football Supporters Europe, and the Building and Wood Workers’ International union, [...]

The bid to close the U.S. ‘slavery loophole’

Johnny Perez was made to work under threat of punishment, sewing underwear, pillowcases and sheets. He earned between $0.17 and $0.36 [...]