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Trafficking Victims and Mental Health in Britain

Trafficking victims in Britain are at risk of severe mental health issues. The American Journal of Public Health reports that in [...]

India Doubles Compensation for Textile Worker Deaths

In order to expose problems in the textile industry, India has doubled its compensation regarding deaths of workers who operate power [...]

Possible Forced Labor in Sugarcane Used in Cereal and Drinks

Is the sugar used in your morning cereal produced by slave labor? Reuters reports that a recent study reveals that is quite possible. [...]

Would You Be Able to Recognize Modern Slavery in Britain?

In a Thomson Reuters Foundation article today, readers were asked to consider what modern slavery in Britain might look like. Scared, [...]

Traffickers Intimidate Sex Trafficking Survivors

Campaigners in India report that many sex trafficking survivors are being threatened by their traffickers after they return home. Women [...]

Drug Dealers Convicted for Trafficking Teen Girl

Two drug dealers have been charged with trafficking a teenage girl in the UK, making it the first time the UK’s Modern Slavery [...]

Banks, Casinos Unite to Tackle Modern Slavery in Asia

Big businesses in Asia, from hotels to clothing brands, are pledging to tackle modern slavery in their industries. The Mekong Club, a [...]

Global Prosecutor Summit Seeks to Increase Trafficking Convictions

Prosecutors from more than a dozen countries have come together for a global summit that aims to increase cross-border cooperation in [...]

“Bacha bazi”: The Boys Sex Trafficked in Afghanistan

A year after Afghanistan strengthened its human trafficking laws to prohibit the use of boys for sexual entertainment, experts say the [...]

Survivor Alliance Turns Victims into Global Leaders

A new online network is looking to help survivors of modern slavery become strategic leaders in the anti-slavery movement. The network, [...]

UK’s First Anti-Slavery Chief to Leave Landmark Role

Kevin Hyland, the UK’s independent anti-slavery commissioner appointed four years ago as part of the Modern Slavery Act says he will [...]

“A Woman Captured”: The Film that Helped Free Marish from Domestic Slavery

“I’m not sure there was a moment I realised my film was uncovering modern slavery,” says filmmaker Bernadett [...]

Britain: GSI Estimates 1 in 500 Are Victims of Modern Slavery

The new 2018 Global Slavery Index estimates that Britain is home to around 136,000 victims of modern slavery, far surpassing the [...]

Post-Brexit ‘Race to the Bottom’ Spells Trouble for Migrant Workers

Low-skilled migrant workers from Europe risk falling into modern slavery in post-Brexit Britain as employers scramble to find enough [...]

The “Lucrative Family Business” of Slavery

A group of eight who turned human trafficking into a “lucrative family business” has been jailed for a total of 24 years in [...]

Nobel Prize Winner Convinces France to Aid Yazidis

France has agreed to take in 100 Yazidi women who were formerly held as sex slaves by ISIS militants and who are now living in refugee [...]

Trafficking Survivors: Don’t Treat Us Like Zoo Animals

“We’ve lost funding because I refused to parade victims in a zoo.” Sophie Otiende, a program consultant at HAART [...]

Survivors Write 110,000 Postcards to PM Modi

Survivors of human trafficking across eleven Indian states are making a final push to convince lawmakers to pass a long-awaited [...]

Singapore Domestic Workers “Highly Susceptible” to Abuse

Singapore needs to fix many “draconian” measures in it hiring system for migrant domestic workers, with campaigners saying [...]

Jaipur Aims to Erase Blot of Child Labor

Jaipur is embarking on a campaign to clean up child labor in the tourist-packed city as part of India’s $7.5 billion plan to turn [...]

GLAA Backs Business Partnerships Over Punishments

The new head of the nation’s anti-slavery agency, Gangmasters and Labor Abuse Authority (GLAA), says businesses in Britain need to feel [...]

Thailand Adds Forced Labor to Anti-Trafficking Law

Thailand announced revisions its anti-human trafficking law this Sunday, introducing harsher penalties for traffickers and adding [...]

Should Cambodian Surrogates Face Human Trafficking Charges?

Women’s rights activists in Cambodia are calling for new laws on commercial surrogacy to not criminalize surrogate mothers under [...]

No Water, No Wife: How Climate Change is Linked to Trafficking

“The parents usually tell me ‘no water, no daughter’,” said Hetu. The 42-year-old farm laborer in rural [...]