Category: Forced Labor

Right now, there are millions of people all over the world being forced to work to produce goods that we use every single day. But we [...]

The Eritrean government’s program of mandatory and indefinite national conscription traps its population in forced labor for long [...]

Write to fashion brands and read Rahima’s story. “If the government tells you to work, you go.” — Uyghur laborer, Aksu, China. [...]

Did you know that there is a high risk that palm oil linked to forced labor and environmental destruction could end up on US [...]

The Malaysian government is proposing employers deduct 20% from migrant workers’ salaries. The reason? To prevent workers from fleeing [...]

What tea brand do you drink? Did you know that many tea blends include tea from Assam, where people get poverty wages, are scared to [...]

“…detainees began to work in the kitchen just so they could eat more…one detainee lost 68 lbs. Their ‘volunteering’ involved literally [...]

Day 4: RESEARCH YOUR FAVOURITE BRAND Chances are decent that your clothing was made under less than ideal working conditions. But what [...]

Target Corporation often offers prices that seem too good to be true - how do they keep their prices so low? Turns out some of Target’s [...]

Due to lax regulation, Australians are unwittingly spending up to $600 million a year on imported goods produced under slave labour [...]

Most electronics devices contain minerals that originate in the mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, often called “conflict [...]

You may have heard of Daewoo cars or electronics but did you know that Daewoo is the largest processor of slave labor picked Uzbek [...]

Call on Nintendo to take concrete steps to ensure its products are slavery-free.

The End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act would do more to hold contractors accountable for human rights abuses - sign the [...]

A Nintendo tem sido um líder no mundo do gaming, mas falhou miseravelmente sobre o problema dos “minerais de conflito” que [...]

Just a few years ago, stories like Antonio’s were frighteningly common. The situation in the U.S. tomato industry was so bad that one [...]

Florida’s tomato farms supply 50% of all U.S. fresh tomatoes but have also been called America’s ‘ground zero for slavery.’ Countless [...]

Historically, there have been serious challenges to protecting migrant workers from modern slavery in Qatar. But with the prestige of [...]

In Uzbekistan, the whole country suffers because of the government's dependence on revenue from the cotton harvest. The government [...]

Call on FIFA to take responsibility for awarding the World Cup to a country with historic issues of worker exploitation and forced [...]

“I’d never come across such exploitation: encampments that looked like concentration camps, filth, back-breaking shifts under a [...]

These are just a snippet of the stories that are being told by Eritreans working at the Bisha mine*, majority-owned by Nevsun Resources [...]

Bide Majakoti knows the horror of forced labor in Qatar first-hand. He travelled from Nepal on the promise of a well-paid job and paid [...]

84 years ago Charlie Chaplin was at the height of his career, 84 years ago the very notion of a computer or instant coffee was pure [...]

“We were treated like slaves, all day and all night we had to work. I don’t want anyone else to have to face the same ordeal.” Nayto, [...]

We have already waited decades for this tough new global standard against forced labor. The people trapped on farms, in mines, in [...]