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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 [...]

India’s Grain Banks Combat Debt Bondage

Grain banks are opening their doors to more than 5,000 homes across northern India in a move to prevent families from falling into debt [...]

#MeToo for sex trafficking survivors

The #MeToo movement is growing fast in India, where celebrities are joining in sharing stories of harassment and sexual violence on [...]

EU Immigration Barriers a “Gift to Traffickers”

European countries are closing their doors to migrants fleeing war, famine, or persecution at home, but experts are warning that [...]

The Blind Spot in Cambodia’s Child Labor

The United Nations says that child labor has fallen sharply in Cambodia’s fashion factories. But there’s a catch: the UN [...]

Thai Supreme Court Backs 1.7 Million Baht Payout

Thailand’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in favor of 14 migrant workers from Myanmar who filed a complaint over labor violations [...]

Uzbek Teachers Forced to Clean Streets, Harvest Wheat

Uzbekistan has come under intense scrutiny for state-sponsored forced labor in its cotton harvest, but that isn’t the only sector [...]

The Survivors of Russia’s Most High-Profile Slavery Case

Fatima Musabayeva survived what is considered to be Russia’s most high-profile case of modern slavery. In 2007, she and her [...]

Two Major Brazilian Fashion Brands Land on “Dirty List”

Officials in Brazil have placed two of the country’s top fashion brands on a government “dirty list” due to their use [...]

Missing Wombs: Surgery Scam Traps Indians in Debt Bondage

Dharmendra Meena and his wife Vaijanti had a “beautiful and carefree” first year of marriage. But when Vaijanti developed [...]

Undocumented Domestic Worker Wins Right to Seek Redress

In a landmark ruling, a high court in Malaysia affirmed that an undocumented Indonesian domestic worker has the right to have her case [...]

Indian comic hero challenges sex trafficking stigma

A female Indian superhero character continues to challenge stigma on human trafficking and sex crimes in a third instalment of the [...]

Rise in modern slavery complaints doesn’t translate to more rescues in Brazil

Brazil received considerably more complaints of slave-like working conditions in 2019 than 2018. But officials reported on Tuesday that [...]

The impact of coronavirus on child victims of trafficking

With the UK on a government-imposed lockdown in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Catherine Baker from our partner [...]

New Israel-Thailand labor deal raises fears of migrant exploitation

Activists and academics have expressed their concern that a new partnership between the governments of Israel and Thailand could leave [...]

What is the role of awareness-raising in tackling modern slavery?

When presented with the horrific spectrum of crimes that fall under the umbrella term of modern slavery, it is understandable why our [...]

No more chains: Anti-slavery campaigns urged to stop relying on shock images

Thailand bans prisons from using inmates to make fishing nets

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Thailand bans use of prison labor to make fishing nets

At Freedom United, we campaign to end forced labor in prisons and the conditions of servitude in which nearly 800,000 incarcerated [...]