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India Death Penalty for Child Rape Won’t Deter Traffickers

Criminals trafficking children for sexual exploitation are unlikely to be deterred by a new government order approving the death [...]

Murder of Teenage Indian Maid Sparks Calls for Tougher Laws

A 16-year-old girl, Soni Kumari, from eastern Jharkhand state has been murdered, her body chopped up and dumped in a drain after she [...]

Can Blockchain Save Moldova’s Children from Traffickers?

Laura wasn’t even 18 when a palm reader told her that she could make $180 working on a beetroot farm in Russia — a good sum of [...]

Ten Million Victims Go Missing from India Slavery Report

The new 2018 Global Slavery Index reports a significant change in the number of victims of modern slavery in India, dropping sharply to [...]

Kids Held Hostage to Force Moms into Sex Work

Human traffickers in Mexico are holding children hostage as a tactic to force their mothers into sex work, campaigners warn. These same [...]

Colombia Gears Up for ‘La Madame’ Trial

Colombia is gearing up for the trial of an infamous pimp in Cartagena, with prosecutors hoping it will send a strong message to sex [...]

Myanmar Girls Sold into Marriage for “3 Years and a Baby”

China’s one-child policy and gendercide has brought about a severe gender imbalance in China. Even though China now allows [...]

Europeans Want Clothes With a Conscience

Western European shoppers want to buy clothes that are made responsibly according to a new survey, but it is still unclear how much [...]

MPs: Call off Search for New Anti-Slavery Chief

As Britain struggles to find a new anti-slavery commissioner, lawmakers this week said that the government should call off its search [...]

Spice Girls in Hot Water Over Charity T-Shirts

T-shirts championing gender justice have landed the Spice Girls in hot water as it has emerged that the factory producing the shirts [...]

Trafficking victims’ pursuit of justice delayed in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Targets Unscrupulous Middlemen

Bangladesh is planning to crack down an exploitative recruitment agencies by compiling a list of certified agents. Migrant workers [...]

US Charges Ex-Chinese Construction Exec for Forced Labor

The former president of the US arm of China Rilin Construction Group, Dan Zhong, is on trial for exploiting Chinese laborers on New [...]

Volunteers or Slaves? Brazil’s Use of Cheap Prison Labor

Rio de Janeiro is using prisoners as “volunteer workers” in order to maintain jails, with inmates cooking, cleaning, and [...]

Philippines Urged to Rethink Kuwait Ban Over Maid’s Death

Migrant rights NGOs and activists are urging the Philippines to not impose a labor migration ban on Filipinos going to work in Kuwait. [...]

As Number of Trafficked Men Soars, Where are their Support Systems?

There are now more men than women who have been referred to the UK government’s support system for victims of modern slavery. But [...]

Modern slavery uncovered in Brazilian coffee industry

Slave labor is pervasive in the world’s largest coffee industry, a six-month Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has revealed. [...]

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s bid to stamp out child labor in cobalt sector

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced that its government will now take charge of the country’s cobalt sector and [...]

U.N. calls for healthcare for all migrants, trafficking victims during coronavirus

Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, concerns around the access to healthcare for all migrants led U.N. experts to call on countries to [...]

Malawi campaigner: dissolve child marriages performed during lockdown

Village chiefs in Malawi have been ordered by a senior traditional leader to dissolve all the child marriages that occurred while the [...]

Landmark ruling by European rights court finds UK failed to protect potential child trafficking victims

Landmark ruling by European rights court orders U.K. to compensate trafficking victims

On February 16, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the United Kingdom had violated the rights of two Vietnamese [...]

E.U. citizens who miss U.K. residency deadline at increased risk of slavery

Lawyers and activists have warned that this week’s U.K. residency application deadline has left E.U. citizens vulnerable to modern [...]

Does Human Trafficking Need a Clearer Definition?

Slaves may be from different parts of the world, trapped in any variety of industries...but they have one thing in common--they have [...]

Nordic Asylum Centers and Child Brides

In some Nordic asylum centers, migrant under-age wives are allowed to continue staying with their older husbands, and it is causing [...]

Lonely Refugees in Britain Matched with Friends

When a Sudanese refugee named Abu Haron arrived in England in 2010, the teenager found himself at a police station surrounded by people [...]