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Award-winning film exposes cycle of abuse for trafficked Nigerian women

“Joy,” which won best film at the BFI London Film Festival, shines a light on the “cycle of abuse and poverty” driving sex trafficking. [...]

Eighty Percent of Children in Orphanages are Not Orphans

There are millions of children living in orphanages and other institutions around the world. Yet alarmingly, child rights experts warn [...]

UN Reaches Global Anti-Slavery “Milestone”

This Monday, the majority of United Nations members backed a global pact on migration that has potential to stem human trafficking [...]

US Senate Condemns Cuban Doctor “Slavery”

A program that sends Cuban doctors around the world is being condemned by US Senators who say it qualifies as human trafficking. In a [...]

Unaccompanied Child Migrants Failed by Britain

Around 2,400 migrant children arrived in Britain unaccompanied in 2017, with no parent or caretaker. Some of them were victims of human [...]

Philippines Launches Center to Fight Child Cybersex Trafficking

The Philippines has launched its first center to fight the online sexual abuse of children as the country continues to be a hotspot for [...]

Hope as Countries Tackle Orphanage Trafficking

There are signs of hope that countries are waking up to the problem of orphanage trafficking. It’s a perplexing problem in which [...]

Are Investors Putting Climate Change Before Modern Slavery?

Major investors should not simply focus on climate change and global warming, but also compel companies to tackle modern slavery when [...]

Ecuador Focuses on Trafficking of Indigenous Communities

Ecuador is poised to launch a new anti-trafficking plan aimed at prevention and assisting survivors of trafficking through 2030. While [...]

Landmark challenge could block EU imports of ‘slave-picked’ Uzbek cotton

A new legal challenge filed on Monday in Britain could pave the way for the European Union to prevent slave-made goods from entering [...]

India aims to fight trafficking with facial recognition

The fourth-largest railway system in the world is set to become an important defense against human trafficking as India prepares to [...]

Calls for faster progress on fifth anniversary of UK Modern Slavery Act

In an opinion piece for Thomson Reuters Foundation on Monday, Jakub Sobik of Anti-Slavery International drew attention to the need for [...]

Security watchdog calls for reinforced criminal justice to prevent trafficking surge

A senior European security official has warned that governments must prioritize bringing human traffickers to justice in order to [...]

Momentum against Uyghur forced labor grows as U.S. and U.K. governments take action

The U.S. government has banned all cotton from the Uyghur region, while the British government is introducing new rules to prevent [...]

U.N. sees ‘major progress’ on forced labour in Uzbek cotton harvest

Uyghur activist says U.S. legislation “just the start”

Jewher Ilham is a human rights advocate, author, and the daughter of Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, the renowned activist and human rights [...]

Brazilian Victims Seek Justice in US Courts

Brazilian victims of human slavery from the 1990s want top US human rights court to judge in their favor...

What We Would All Be Missing

This past February, 40 organizations met for a brainstorming workshop near London to discuss a new development goal adopted by the [...]

British Family Gang Guilty of Enslaving Homeless and Disabled

A British extended family has been convicted of modern-day slavery, because they forced helpless and vulnerable people to work long [...]

Reporting Supply Chain Abuses is Not About Shaming Large Corporations

A Reuters‘ article today explains how difficult it is to stop forced labor in corporate supply chains, especially when those [...]

ILO Drops Qatar Investigation

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has dropped its investigation into Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers — many [...]

Mexico’s Indigenous Migrant Workers Risk Enslavement

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission says that indigenous migrant workers are at risk of becoming trapped in forced labor on [...]

Coping by Forgetting: Why Consumers Still Buy Unethical Products

A new study from Ohio State University has found that consumers who knowingly buy products that were produced unethically cope by [...]

Lebanon’s Kafala System Traps Ethiopian Migrant Workers

Betty (not her real name) landed in Beirut on her 22nd birthday. Travelling from Ethiopia, she came to Lebanon with the hope of having [...]