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The College Offering Free Education to Survivors

At a college in Barnsley, northern England, students discuss their experiences surviving sex trafficking, battling addictions, and the [...]

Malaysia Targets Middlemen to End Debt Bondage

Malaysia is going after exploitative middlemen who attempt to recruit migrant workers from abroad by changing them exorbitant [...]

Increase in Urban Slavery Cases in Brazil

Brazil faces new challenges as prosecutors and labor inspectors must deal with a sharp increase in cases of urban slavery, according to [...]

Brazilian Religious Cults Enslaving Their Followers

“Help me get out of here please. I want to leave here, dad. I want to talk to you, but they won’t let me.” It was the [...]

Ride-Hailing Firm Grab Trains Fleet to Spot Trafficking

The largest ride-hailing company in Southeast Asia, Grab, has announced plans to train its millions of drivers across the region on [...]

Pope’s Good Friday Service Focuses on Rome’s Trafficked Children

A nun who has helped trafficked women and children in Italy, Nigeria, and Benin will be the main speaker today during Pope [...]

Portugal Police Free 20 Women from Trafficking

Eight members of a human trafficking network have been arrested in Portugal following a six-month investigation supported by Europol. [...]

‘A trafficker lives here’ — Bangladesh paints suspects’ homes red

Border guards in Bangladesh are painting the homes of suspected human and drug traffickers red in an effort to stop trafficking from [...]

From plantation to boardroom: Indian slaves move on from life of bondage

An innovative approach to freeing bonded laborers on farms in India has led to a “rare success story” for survivors. In Kerala, former [...]

Thai coffee brand promises compensation after missing wages revealed

A Thai coffee chain has promised to pay thousands of dollars in compensation to 200 farmers that went years without payment and [...]

Asian garment workers bear the brunt of declining clothing sales

Millions of garment workers in Asia face rising modern slavery risks as the pandemic hits top fashion brands, experts and campaigners [...]

Survivors of modern slavery in the U.K. endangered by immigration policies

Freedom United marked U.K. Anti-Slavery Day by calling for a commitment to ensure that victims of trafficking do not face punitive [...]

Why is this form of modern slavery still legal?

How is this form of modern slavery still quasi-legal?

In an opinion piece for the Thomson Reuters Foundation this week, Aidan McQuade writes that the key to addressing modern slavery is [...]

Labor abuses fuel Brazil’s Amazon destruction

Deforestation has rapidly increased in Brazil since right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, but while the loss of [...]

Administration Hopes to Leave an Anti-Trafficking Legacy

In an effort to combat slavery of some 21 million victims, President Obama's administration hopes to leave an anti-trafficking legacy...

Women Face Hardship in Crisis Zones

Women face hardship in crisis zones throughout the world. Seeking shelter in caves in Yemen where they can give birth unharmed. Child [...]

Financial Sector Could Use Greater Power to Fight Trafficking

A United Nation’s think tank said that the global financial sector is not fully using all the tools it has at hand to fight human [...]

India Offers Alternative Jobs to Illegal Sand Miners

In the last year, illegally mining sand has accounted for at least two deaths in western India, according to Reuters. Government [...]

Brazil’s Controversial Slavery Decree

Brazilian president Michel Temer has responded to criticism of a new decree that changed the definition of slavery in the country. He [...]

The Apps and Credit Cards that Aim to Prevent Debt Bondage

In the eastern Indian state of Odisha thousands of rural families are beginning the seasonal migration in search of work. This year, [...]

Business Gives Ukrainian Survivors Fresh Start

Iyrna (not her real name) was in trouble. In debt and unemployed, she couldn’t provide for her son and sick mother in Ukraine. [...]

New DC Court Program to Aid Child Sex Trafficking Victims

Just blocks from the White House children are being targeted by sex traffickers who make thousands of dollars off of their abuse. Often [...]

US Hotline Sees Spike in Reports of Forced Child Begging

A hotline for human trafficking cases in the U.S. has seen a spike in the number of calls and revealed new forms of abuse, including [...]

Rich Nations Ramp Up Anti-Trafficking Funding. Will Businesses Follow?

The world’s top economies have increased their funding for anti-trafficking efforts according to new figures from the United [...]