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Hong Kong’s thousands of foreign domestic workers are not allowed to get loans from banks in the city, forcing them to turn to licensed lending companies and loan sharks. Following…
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Hong Kong’s thousands of foreign domestic workers are not allowed to get loans from banks in the city, forcing them to turn to licensed lending companies and loan sharks. Following…
…his family were members of the local unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which held power in the area. As a result, the police did everything they could…
…they are no different from a consumer of a chocolate bar.” Chocolate companies’ response The chocolate companies refute any wrongdoing, saying they have zero tolerance for forced labor in their…
…Persons Law. In 2011, the National Labor Relations Commission required a fishing company to pay 254 fishermen from Negros Oriental 13.4 million pesos in compensation for their services in a…
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…Call on Niger’s President to outlaw the child marriage of girls. Find out more about forced child marriage around the world by clicking here. *Image copyright of ILRI/Stevie Mann: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ilri…
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pledged to criminalize sex work in the country, claiming that it ‘enslaves women.’ Sex work was decriminalized in Spain in 1995, meaning sex workers…
…raised objections. “I’m reading today’s action as that the committee is generally comfortable with the direction on racist language,” Lathram said. The committee is scheduled to take a formal vote…
…indicate that more than 50,000 children are involved in different forms of commercial sexual exploitation.9 It is most common along the Kenyan Coast where the majority of tourism activities take…
…more complex and nuanced than this narrow and sensationalist representation suggests. One of the primary assumptions of this campaign is that work and education are mutually exclusive. Some abolitionists even…
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