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Adidas Soars, Monster Energy Fails in New Labor Rankings

Adidas has come out on top of a new human rights rankings list of apparel, agricultural, and extraction firms around the world. The [...]

Australia Passes World’s 2nd Anti-Slavery Law

Culminating years of campaigning, Australia has finally passed its own Modern Slavery Act, making it the second country in the world [...]

EU Lifts Yellow Card on Thai Fishing

The European Union has lifted its yellow card on Thai fishing imports nearly four years after the EU’s initial warning was issued [...]

Thailand Leads Asia by Ratifying Fishing Convention

Thailand took a major step forward in fighting modern slavery by ratifying the International Labour Organization’s Work in [...]

Undocumented Domestic Workers in UK Fear Authorities

When law enforcement showed up at a support group for migrant domestic workers in Britain, Marissa Begonia knew something was wrong. [...]

Turkish Children Forced to Work in Hazelnut Harvest

Turkey pledged to end child labor by 2015, but some two million children may still be forced to work in the country’s agriculture [...]

London Metal Exchange to Ban Metal Tainted by Child Labor

The London Metal Exchange (LME) announced that it may ban or delist companies that are tainted by dangerous child labor or corruption [...]

Diplomatic Immunity Will No Longer Shield Slave-Owners

In a major legal breakthrough, a UK tribunal has ruled that a Saudi diplomat cannot claim diplomatic immunity in a case where he is [...]

Rescued from sex trafficking, yet red tape traps Bangladeshi girls in India

“How long can I wait?”, said Priya. “Maybe I won’t go now even if they ask me to.” Priya (not her real [...]

Qatar takes further steps to abolish kafala system

From today, Qatar is reportedly set to remove the requirement of exit visas for the majority of migrant workers in the country with [...]

New reports show insufficient progress against forced labor in Thailand

Activists and campaigners have called for Thailand to be downgraded in the U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report [...]

Brazilian anti-slavery blacklist fails to prevent firms winning state contracts

Brazil’s slave labor “dirty list,” which lists companies found by inspectors to have used slave labor, has been called one of the [...]

Australian government publishes first modern slavery statement

This week, the Australian government published its first modern slavery statement, which highlighted that the construction and textile [...]

UK rules on goods from China’s Xinjiang seen as soft on business

Thailand’s increasingly repressive policies are hindering the fight against trafficking

Last June, the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report downgraded Thailand to its Tier 2 Watch List in response [...]

Trafficking Hotline Calls Increase

Trafficking hotline calls are increasing. This information refers to both the number of calls reporting trafficking and calls from [...]

Brick Layers Rescued from Trafficking

Brick layers were rescued from a construction site in Karnatake, according to police on Monday.

Bangladesh Makes a Way to Bring Sex Trafficked Girls Home

Girls and boys who are forced to go to India as sex workers might wait years to come back home to Bangladesh after they are rescued, [...]

India Holds World’s Biggest March to Protect Children

According to Reuters, thousands of activists came together in southern India on Monday. The event they were attending may well be the [...]

Traffickers Targeting the Homeless in the UK

UK charities are warning that traffickers are targeting homeless people, exploiting them for slave labor under false promises of work [...]

US Ban on Slave-Made Goods Needs More Bite

Despite the US banning imports made with slave labor, lawmakers and advocates say that billions worth of these illegal goods still make [...]

Five Gains in the Anti-Slavery Movement in 2017

As the world turns its attention to the problem of modern slavery and human trafficking, it is worth taking a moment to look back on [...]

Is the Super Bowl Actually a Magnet for Sex Trafficking?

The Super Bowl has been called the “single largest human trafficking incident” in the United States, but is this really [...]

Only 58% of UK Gov’t Suppliers Comply with Modern Slavery Law

The UK government’s own suppliers are failing to live up to the the standards set by the UK Modern Slavery Act. According to [...]