Thailand is being pressured by the United States and European Union make more reforms in its fishing industry in order to resolve slave [...]
Source: Voice of America
US Releases New Rules on Child Bride Petitions
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it was updating guidance on petitions to bring child [...]
Brick Kilns, Bonded Slaves, and Activists
Brick kilns, bonded slaves, and activists. Thanks to the work of activists in India's western Maharashtra, thousands of brick kiln [...]
Peru’s First Indigenous Radio Drama Tackles Slavery
Peru’s indigenous women and girls from poor communities are particularly vulnerable to human trafficking, ending up in domestic [...]
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Use of Child Labor
Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of nearly one billion, struggles with poverty, which in turn leads to more and more child [...]
New York Finds Ex-Chinese Construction Exec Guilty of Forced Labor
A federal court in Brooklyn has delivered a guilty verdict in the case of a former Chinese construction executive charged with forced [...]
Brazilian Efforts to Reduce Slavery
There are Brazilian efforts to reduce slavery on coffee plantations, but the poor are still lured onto the farms with promises of good [...]
Malawi Struggles to Support Survivors of Child Trafficking
Despite legislation designed to tackle the problem, Malawi is struggling to fight child trafficking and support survivors. In [...]
Afghanistan’s Child Labor
Afghanistan's child labor is occurring in the midst of war. Families are taking their children out of school to work in order to make [...]
Cambodia launches campaign to end child labor in brick industry
The Cambodian government has launched an ambitious plan to end dangerous child labor in the country’s brick industry by 2020. [...]
Sex Trafficking Increases in Southeast Asia
Sex trafficking increases in Southeast Asia as more Vietnamese women are trafficked into China...
Malaysian glove makers facing charges of housing workers in conditions of modern slavery
The Malaysian government has announced it is bringing charges against one of the country’s largest rubber glove producers after labor [...]
Organ Harvesting–Large Scale in China
Organ harvesting is large scale in China. Organs from prisoners are harvested and many come from prisoners. Prisoners, including [...]
Network of baby traffickers arrested in Cameroon
Cameroon police have opened an investigation into a network of baby traffickers who allegedly bought babies with the intention of [...]
Progress Slow Against Trafficking in Africa
Progress slow in Africa. The U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons report said that Africa's progress against human [...]
10 years since the Domestic Workers Convention – what’s changed?
Ten years have passed since the adoption of the International Labour Organization’s Convention on Domestic Workers (C189), but new [...]
TIP Report–Thailand Must Improve
The TIP, Trafficking in Person's report, explains that while Thailand has made significant efforts to eliminate trafficking during the [...]
Talking about modern slavery on VOA’s Daybreak Africa
Forced Labor Survivors Fall Through Cracks and have Trouble Reintegrating
Men who are trafficked into forced labor can have difficulty reintegrating into their lives once they return.
Myanmar’s Downgrade Prompts Action
It is fairly clear that Myanmar should ramp up efforts to combat trafficking since the United States’ rated them as one of the world's [...]
UN human rights chief due to update on efforts to assess situation in Uyghur Region
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, will update the 49th session of the Human Rights Council on [...]
In Colombia, Who’s Most Vulnerable to Trafficking?
Colombians driven from their homes by civil war are at high risk of being trafficked, but little is known about the true scale of the [...]
Nepali Survivor Climbs Everest to Raise Trafficking Awareness
NEW DELHI — Kanchhi Maya Tamang is perhaps the first trafficking victim to climb Mount Everest, the highest point on earth. The [...]
Eritrea: Forced conscripts and draft evaders face worsening conditions
The ongoing conflict in Ethiopia is exacerbating conditions for those who have been forcibly conscripted and those who evade [...]