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Bangladeshis Trafficked to Vanuatu Begin Returning Home

Over 100 Bangladeshi migrants who were trafficked to Vanuatu after being promised lucrative jobs will begin returning to Bangladesh [...]

‘We are scared they will send us back’: child victims speak out in Britain

“We’re getting confused, we are scared every night that they will send us back. We cannot sleep,” said Anna (not her real name), a [...]

Indian schoolgirl hero leads new anti-trafficking campaign

11-year-old Carolyn Malsawmtluangi, from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, has been applauded for her efforts to help another [...]

Medical glove shortage sees US lift ban on company accused of forced labor

Amid a shortage of disposable medical gloves due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the United States has reversed an import ban on a [...]

The warning signs in this year’s Trafficking in Persons report

In an opinion piece for Thomson Reuters Foundation, a U.S. anti-trafficking expert last week laid out key lessons learned from this [...]

Looking ahead: top priorities to tackle modern slavery in 2021

As the United Nations’ goal of ending modern slavery by 2030 comes another year closer, experts are worried that the gains made [...]

How Can Britain Stop Fast Fashion Brands Like Boohoo Exploiting Workers?

Prisoners in Thailand forced to make fishing nets for U.S. export

Incarcerated people exploited by the fishing industry Thailand has the largest prison population in Southeast Asia comprising of [...]

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 [...]

How Muay Thai is Helping Young Girls Recover from Trafficking

Cheered on by their friends, a group of Filipina girls launch into a flurry of kicks and punches against their trainers. All of them [...]

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. [...]