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US Cuts Aid to Bolivia over Child Labor

The United States has said it plans to cut aid to Bolivia over the country’s failed efforts to curb child labor. Bolivia was one [...]

Biram: Europe Must Cut Aid to Mauritania

Leading Mauritanian anti-slavery activist, MP Biram Dah Abeid, is calling on Europe to stop doing business with and cut aid to the [...]

Slavery-Linked Cotton on Amazon, Walmart, eBay Marketplaces

In May 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) decided to ban the import of any products containing cotton from Turkmenistan, a [...]

Meet Nasima, the Survivor Taking on the Indian State

Nasima Gain spent more than a year not leaving her house, refusing to meet friends and opting to stay in bed instead. She says she was [...]

African and Asian Victims Less Likely to be Helped by UK

Victims of modern slavery who are trafficked to the UK from Africa or Asia are far less likely to receive help from the government [...]

Interpol Operation Rescues 216 Victims Across West Africa

Police have rescued 216 victims of human trafficking — 157 of them children — across Benin and Nigeria in a major Interpol operation [...]

The Tricky Way Companies Avoid Brazil’s Dirty List

Major companies are turning to court injunctions as a means of blocking their names from being included on Brazil’s slave labor [...]

Scorecard ranks top chocolate brands on child labor. Who flunked?

The efforts of the world’s major chocolate companies are not equal when it comes to rooting out child labor and deforestation [...]

Freedom United shortlisted for Stop Slavery Campaigns Award

At Freedom United, we’re excited to share the news of having made the shortlist for the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Stop Slavery [...]

Brazil facilitates residency visas for human trafficking survivors – if they cooperate

Brazil’s government has enacted a new law that will facilitate the visa requirement process for victims of human trafficking after they [...]

The anti-trafficking sector’s representation & racism problem

The ever-present structural issues of racism, discrimination and inequality have been catapulted to front and center as Black Lives [...]

Human traffickers set to benefit from U.K.’s exit from E.U.

Activists have given further warnings this week that human trafficking will increase when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union [...]

OPINION: Forced organ harvesting could be making its way into the UK health system

‘Slavery-like conditions’ in Brazil’s charcoal industry

Brazil is the world leader in charcoal production, according to the most recent available data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture [...]

New Bill May Reform Trafficking Rankings

A new bill may soon be ready to introduce in the House of Representatives . It is being finalized by U.S. Representative Chris Smith [...]

Slave Fishermen Risk Lives to Feed Families

Slave fishermen are risking their lives to feed their families.

Bogota launches drive to combat invisible slavery, increase convictions

Over 300,000 people are estimated to be victims of human trafficking in Colombia, however few trafficking cases make it to court, with [...]

Rohingya Muslims Face Risks Fleeing Myanmar

The United Nations migration agency on Wednesday announced that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have run away from the [...]

UK’s Foreign Domestic Workers in Limbo

More than 17,000 domestic workers come to Britain each year – mostly to work for wealthy families visiting from Gulf countries [...]

Forced Labor for Brazil’s ‘Chicken Catchers’

Thousands of workers in Brazil’s poultry industry — namely ‘chicken catchers’ — are estimated to be [...]

Brazil Reverses Course, Will Not Weaken Anti-Slavery Law

In response to widespread criticism, Brazil will not weaken its anti-slavery law. The government has issued a decree backtracking on [...]

Britain Slashes Financial Support for Trafficking Survivors

Britain is halving half of the financial support it gives potential victims of modern slavery — a move widely criticized by [...]

Philippines: 3,000 Reports Each Month of Child Cybersex Abuse

The Philippines Department of Justice says it receives over 3,000 reports each month of Filipino children being sexually exploited and [...]

UK Anti-Slavery Hotline Uncovers 5,000 Potential Victims

Britain’s modern slavery hotline received thousands of calls in its first year of operation, helping identify nearly 5,000 [...]