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Australia Aims to Pass Strong Anti-Slavery Law in 2018

Australia is looking to follow in the footsteps of the UK and pass it own anti-slavery law this year. The main difference? [...]

Major UK Construction Firms Fail to Root Out Forced Labor

Top UK construction companies are failing to address forced labor due to their aggressive business models and ignorance of the problem [...]

Rising Populism in Europe Fuels Human Trafficking in Libya

The rise of populism and anti-immigrant sentiments across Europe are fuelling human trafficking in Libya according to senior [...]

Myanmar Chicken Farm Workers Cleared of Criminal Defamation in Thailand

In a landmark ruling, a Thai court dismissed all criminal defamation charges against migrant workers from Myanmar who accused a Thai [...]

One-Fifth of Britain’s Businesses Discovered Wage Violations

British companies with global supply chains are struggling to ensure that workers are paid properly according to a new survey. The [...]

Convicted Sex Trafficker Leaves ‘Celebrity Big Brother’

A convicted sex trafficker has left a Bulgarian reality TV show — a spinoff of “Celebrity Big Brother” — following an [...]

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 [...]