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Wednesday, February 8

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Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’ App Helps Save Girl from Forced Marriage

A teenage girl taken to Bangladesh used her ‘Find My iPhone’ app to alert her secret boyfriend back in the UK that she was [...]

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Thai Court Dismisses Criminal Defamation Charges Against Andy Hall

A Thai appeals court has quashed criminal defamation charges against activist Andy Hall, who was sued by fruit packaging [...]

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Russia Hiring North Korean ‘Slave’ Workers Despite UN Sanctions

Russia has been issuing work permits to North Korean workers despite UN sanctions against the practice. The UN sanctions are designed [...]

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Police: Traditional Turkish Barber Shops Using Slave Labor

The police officer behind the UK’s first prosecution for child modern slavery is warning that some traditional Turkish barber [...]

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Airbnb, Uber Urged to Act on Child Drug Mules

A minister in the UK is calling on Airbnb and Uber to take action to identify children who are being forced to carry drugs across the [...]

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Where 18% of the Country is Enslaved

An estimated 600,000 people — nearly 18% of the country’s population — are thought to be enslaved in Mauritania according [...]

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NHS, High Street Condoms Linked to Malaysia Abuses

A condom factory in Malaysia that has supplied the National Health Service and major brands Tesco, Boots, and Superdrug is coming under [...]

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Kids Trafficked to Congo Orphanage, Adopted in Belgium

Belgian prosecutors are asking for DNA samples from 15 families in a bid to track down the biological families of trafficked adopted [...]

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Fashion giants finally cotton on to plight of the Uighurs

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Greater risk of sex trafficking in pandemic New York

New York has seen a spike in sex trafficking cases during the worst of the pandemic. “It’s the deadly combination of people losing [...]

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British Activist Faces Jail Threat

Andy Hall is a prominent British activist who is on trial in Thailand. He faces charges that could send him to jail for up to seven years...

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Indian Boys Trafficked to France for “Rugby Camp”

Indian police have arrested three men for running a trafficking ring that transported twenty five Indian boys to France by luring them [...]

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Recovering Child Brides: “Being Rejected by Your Parents Worse Than Torture”

Two teenage sisters sold off as child brides in Kashmir to men more than three times their age last December are struggling to reclaim [...]

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