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Conviction of Emirati Princesses is Strong Message to Traffickers

“No one, even if you are a princess, is above the law” The conviction of eight Emirati princesses in Belgium were recently [...]

U.N. Concerned with Children Working on Lebanese Farms

Reuters reports that Lebanese farms are using children as young as five-year-old as workers. Most of those children are Syrian [...]

Myanmar Workers Fight Defamation Charges in Thailand

A group of migrant workers from Myanmar pleaded not guilty to charges of defamation this week by their former employer, Thammakaset [...]

Remembering Dignity in the Fight to End Modern Slavery

A quick internet search for human trafficking brings up the same images: ropes, chains, girls behind bars, often sexualized and branded [...]

India Petition Calls for Crackdown on Child Sex Trafficking

An Indian politician is calling for greater enforcement of the law to catch those who pay to have sex with children. Fashion designer [...]

The “Game Changing” Anti-Slavery Fund at Davos

Leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week are aiming to raise $1.5 billion USD. With it, they say they can halve [...]

Why Pregnant Victims Of Trafficking Lack Antenatal Care

A new report in Britain has revealed that nearly two out of three trafficking victims who are pregnant — often because of rape [...]

UN: Thai Businesses Must Act to Curb Abuses at Home and Abroad

The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights has completed its 10-day visit to evaluate Thailand’s progress in [...]

India Death Penalty for Child Rape Won’t Deter Traffickers

Criminals trafficking children for sexual exploitation are unlikely to be deterred by a new government order approving the death [...]

Murder of Teenage Indian Maid Sparks Calls for Tougher Laws

A 16-year-old girl, Soni Kumari, from eastern Jharkhand state has been murdered, her body chopped up and dumped in a drain after she [...]

Can Blockchain Save Moldova’s Children from Traffickers?

Laura wasn’t even 18 when a palm reader told her that she could make $180 working on a beetroot farm in Russia — a good sum of [...]

Ten Million Victims Go Missing from India Slavery Report

The new 2018 Global Slavery Index reports a significant change in the number of victims of modern slavery in India, dropping sharply to [...]

Kids Held Hostage to Force Moms into Sex Work

Human traffickers in Mexico are holding children hostage as a tactic to force their mothers into sex work, campaigners warn. These same [...]

Colombia Gears Up for ‘La Madame’ Trial

Colombia is gearing up for the trial of an infamous pimp in Cartagena, with prosecutors hoping it will send a strong message to sex [...]

Myanmar Girls Sold into Marriage for “3 Years and a Baby”

China’s one-child policy and gendercide has brought about a severe gender imbalance in China. Even though China now allows [...]

Europeans Want Clothes With a Conscience

Western European shoppers want to buy clothes that are made responsibly according to a new survey, but it is still unclear how much [...]

MPs: Call off Search for New Anti-Slavery Chief

As Britain struggles to find a new anti-slavery commissioner, lawmakers this week said that the government should call off its search [...]

Spice Girls in Hot Water Over Charity T-Shirts

T-shirts championing gender justice have landed the Spice Girls in hot water as it has emerged that the factory producing the shirts [...]

Trafficking victims’ pursuit of justice delayed in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Targets Unscrupulous Middlemen

Bangladesh is planning to crack down an exploitative recruitment agencies by compiling a list of certified agents. Migrant workers [...]

US Charges Ex-Chinese Construction Exec for Forced Labor

The former president of the US arm of China Rilin Construction Group, Dan Zhong, is on trial for exploiting Chinese laborers on New [...]

Volunteers or Slaves? Brazil’s Use of Cheap Prison Labor

Rio de Janeiro is using prisoners as “volunteer workers” in order to maintain jails, with inmates cooking, cleaning, and [...]

Philippines Urged to Rethink Kuwait Ban Over Maid’s Death

Migrant rights NGOs and activists are urging the Philippines to not impose a labor migration ban on Filipinos going to work in Kuwait. [...]

As Number of Trafficked Men Soars, Where are their Support Systems?

There are now more men than women who have been referred to the UK government’s support system for victims of modern slavery. But [...]

Modern slavery uncovered in Brazilian coffee industry

Slave labor is pervasive in the world’s largest coffee industry, a six-month Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has revealed. [...]