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Global ‘TripAdvisor’ for Migrant Workers Takes Aim at Modern Slavery

Migrant workers can now rate their recruitment agencies and warn fellow migrants of dangers through a new website that mirrors travel [...]

350 Victims Rescued in Interpol Raids across Latin America

Hundreds of suspected victims of human trafficking have been rescued in Interpol raids across 13 Latin American countries, [...]

Daily Violence, Sex Abuse in Walmart’s Asian Suppliers

Women who work in factories across Asia that supply clothes to Walmart face daily violence, slapping, and sexual harassment according [...]

‘White Hat Hackers’ Aim to Bust Human Traffickers on the Dark Web

When he’s not detecting intelligence threats to oil rigs and dams, Sergio Caltagirone spends his spare time searching for another [...]

Survivor: Financial Institutions Must Target Traffickers’ Dirty Money

A survivor of human trafficking is urging global financial institutions to do more to root out human traffickers that move and launder [...]

Britain’s First Safe House for Trafficked Kids

A charity has announced plans to open Britain’s first-ever safe house for child trafficking victims. The launch of Unseen’s [...]

Break in Missing Mexican Nursing Students Case

Police in Mexico have arrested a woman suspected of running a sex trafficking operation along the US-Mexico border. The case may be [...]

Progress as Tetley Reveals Indian Tea Suppliers

Tetley, the world’s second largest tea company, has revealed its list of suppliers in a drive to promote transparency in supply [...]

India: Protect Sex Workers’ Right to Reject Rehab

Campaigners in India are fearing that the country’s anti-trafficking bill could end up punishing consenting, adult sex workers by [...]

US Trafficking Hotline Sees Spike from Texting

The addition of round-the-clock texting this year to the US National Trafficking Hotline has led to a sharp rise in the number of [...]

Britain’s Top Tea Brand Reveals Suppliers

Unilever, the company behind Britain’s largest tea brands, including PG Tips, revealed its list of suppliers in a move to become [...]

UN Raps Ireland Over Fishers’ Scheme

UN rapporteurs are criticizing Ireland’s work permit scheme for migrant fishers, saying it makes them vulnerable to abuse and [...]

What Awaits Cambodian Brides Taken to China?

Thousands of Cambodian women have gone to China in recent years for marriage, but while some end up happily married, many others are [...]

Britain Rules 45 Days of Victim Support Isn’t Enough

The High Court has ruled that the current policy of giving victims of modern slavery just 45 days of government support is far too [...]

Mexico City Decriminalizes Sex Work to Fight Human Trafficking

Mexico City lawmakers have voted to decriminalize sex work in the capital, pledging that it is an important first step in tackling sex [...]

Raids on French winemakers find 167 Bulgarian trafficking victims

Europol raids on French winemakers near the eastern city of Lyon have uncovered 167 suspected victims of human trafficking from [...]

Tackling modern slavery in 2020

With the new decade starting, we are moving closer and closer to 2030. In 2015, the UN made a formal commitment to ensure a better [...]

Child labor and debt bondage persist in Cambodian brick industry

Child labor and debt bondage remain widespread in Cambodia’s brick kilns despite an alleged successful crackdown by the government, a [...]

Pandemic poses great risks to India’s most marginalized

In an opinion piece last week for Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dalit rights activist Ritwajit Das and slavery expert Aidan McQuade [...]

Focus on U.K.’s “pitiful” support for survivors ahead of Anti-Slavery Day

In an opinion piece for Thomson Reuters Foundation, immigration lawyer Ayesha Mohsin made a new plea for the U.K. to increase its [...]

Brazilian government takes landmark action against tobacco exporter

The Brazilian government has this week taken action against a tobacco company for the first time over conditions of modern slavery on a [...]

Cocoa giant admits it can’t trace its suppliers

Olam International, one of the largest producers of cocoa beans in the world, is one of three companies facing charges by the Brazilian [...]

Horrors Faced by Gay Sex Slaves

Three Hungarian men held as sex slaves in New York and Miami described in court the horrors faced by gay sex slaves. But they finally [...]

Trafficking Crisis Shakes Native American Reservation

A trafficking crisis fueled by poverty, isolation, joblessness, violence,and crystal meth addiction is leaving an ugly mark on the Fort [...]