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Survivors’ “Efforts in Vain” as India Delays Anti-Trafficking Law

A survivor of sex trafficking, Lilufa Bibi, had hoped that the Indian parliament would finally enact a new anti-trafficking law that [...]

Women on Assam’s Tea Plantations Paid Only $2 a Day

Women working on Assam’s tea plantations in India earn a “pitiful” $2 a day and live in “appalling” [...]

Webcam Slavery: The Filipino Families Who Become Cybersex Child Traffickers

Ruby suspected something wasn’t quite right when she saw half naked girls running from room to room when she showed up for her [...]

Mauritanian Anti-Slavery Activists Moussa and Abdellahi Released from Jail

Two anti-slavery activists in Mauritania have been released from jail, already back campaigning on the streets of the capital [...]

Can Morocco’s New Law Stop Forced Marriage?

Morocco has passed a new law criminalizing violence against women, but will it have any real effect in preventing forced marriages? [...]

UK Debates Orphanage Trafficking as Modern Slavery

Campaigners are calling on the UK to update its laws to include orphanage trafficking as a form of modern slavery. This is seen as an [...]

“Superstar” Comic Warns Teens on Snapchat, Instagram

A new comic launched on Snapchat and Instagram is aiming to teach teens about human traffickers contacting them over social media. The [...]

Campaigners: The UN is Wrong on Uzbek Cotton

Human rights groups are disputing findings from the International Labour Organization that concluded Uzbekistan has nearly eliminated [...]

Amy Schumer, Ashley Judd Join Calls to Free Cyntoia

Actresses Amy Schumer and Ashley Judd have joined the growing calls for Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to grant Cyntoia Brown clemency [...]

How Did 3,793 Bangladeshi Migrant Workers Die?

A staggering 3,793 migrant workers from Bangladesh died while working abroad last year, the highest annual death toll since 2005. With [...]

Investors Warn Australian Firms Over Slavery

Australia became the second country in the world to usher in an anti-slavery law last month, but investors are warning that Australia [...]

Would You Help a Trafficked Undocumented Migrant?

Would you help an undocumented migrant if you suspected that she was a victim of human trafficking? That’s the question a new [...]

Expand Poor People’s Access to Loans to Prevent Slavery

An international commission is recommending that the financial sector improve poor people’s access to loans in order to help them [...]

NGOs Warn of Loopholes in New Thai Fishing Law

Labor rights NGOs are warning that Thailand’s new law to better regulate the country’s multi-billion dollar fishing industry contains [...]

India Hands Down Rare Life Sentence for Child Labor Trafficking

In a rare victory, India has sentenced a trafficker to life behind bars for trafficking five boys into forced labor at a bangle [...]

Thai fishermen protest against fishing labor regulations

Fisherman from across Thailand gathered outside the agriculture ministry in Bangkok on Tuesday to protest against industry regulations [...]

Migrants en route to the U.S. trafficked in Mexico

Medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has reported that migrants from Central America are being “treated as if they aren’t [...]

Critical risk of debt bondage for India’s informal workers amid coronavirus lockdown

Lockdowns enforced to prevent the spread of coronavirus have been increasing modern slavery risks around the globe, and the world’s [...]

By evicting renters, the U.K. risks increasing human trafficking

In an opinion piece for Thomson Reuters Foundation, anti-slavery author Emily Kenway has argued that the U.K. government’s decision to [...]

In Brazil, banking bureaucracy leads to delayed justice

In Brazil, two Bolivian women who had been forced to stitch clothes for months without pay in Sao Paolo were successful in pressing [...]

Fair recruitment is key to protecting migrants from trafficking

In a new opinion piece for Thomson Reuters Foundation, James Lynch from human rights organization FairSquare writes that governments [...]

Timeline of the Fight Against Human Slavery

It's been 15 years since the universal treaty was adopted to fight human trafficking. What's happened in that time? Here is a timeline...

South Asia Fighting Child Trafficking

Countries in South Asia plan to establish a toll-free helpline and an online initiative to fight against human trafficking...

Is Uzbek Cotton Industry Forced Labor linked to World Bank?

Human rights groups say that in Uzbekistan, children and adults were being forced to pick cotton in an industry that is marred by [...]