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Acting to help “save the threatened lives of migrants or of victims of human trafficking” and to disrupt criminal enterprises operating [...]

Today the United Nations Security Council approved the establishment of an investigation team that will support Iraq’s efforts to hold [...]

It is not unusual for Andrew Forrest, an Australian billionaire, to confront people with an ugly comment: “You may be a [...]

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Ms. Urmila Bhoola, and other human rights experts have spoken [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that nearly half of child trafficking cases globally are linked to their own [...]

The United Nations’ human rights office and civil aviation agency are putting the final touches on new guidelines that could help [...]

The UN has condemned “ghastly conditions” in which migrants and refugees are being held in Libyan detention centers. A [...]

In a joint statement ahead of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, a group of United Nations gave the latest warning [...]

A recent report by an independent U.N. human rights expert found that the current migrant worker system in Canada is a “breeding [...]

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called for an urgent review of the European Union’s agreement with [...]