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Exploitation as usual for migrant caregivers in the U.K.

A new report uncovered that although found in violation of labor laws, almost 200 U.K. care providers still had their license to [...]

“Deeply broken”: How the UK is failing modern slavery survivors

Eleanor Lyons, the independent anti-slavery commissioner, has valid reasons to declare the UK’s modern slavery support system “deeply [...]

Questions raised over US commitment to trafficking protections

This past week, US representatives have raised concerns about the government’s reallocation of law-enforcement resources from [...]

Delhi Children Create their own Newspaper

Delhi children now have a newspaper of their own.“We get pushed around and treated like garbage, because there is no one to speak for [...]

India Currency Note Ban Marks Drop in Sex Trafficking

India currency note ban is causing a drop in sex trafficking.

Brazil Backtracks on Anti-Slavery Policies

The government of Brazil is being criticized after the Ministry of Labor abruptly redefined what it considers to be “slave-like [...]

Home Office Under Fire for Deporting Trafficked Vietnamese Orphan

The UK Home Office has come under intense fire after its decision to send a child victim of human trafficking back to Vietnam, where he [...]

Thousands of Hotline Calls Reveal Extent of Forced Marriage in UK

Police received more than 3,500 reports of forced marriage between 2014 and 2016. One charity running a national hotline [...]

Unseen, BT Set to Launch Modern Slavery Reporting App

Unseen, the nonprofit behind the UK’s modern slavery hotline, is preparing to launch a new app that both teaches users on [...]

UK Served £1m Bill for Shortchanging Victims

A high court judge has ruled the the UK Home Office unlawfully slashed aid for victims of trafficking. The ruling has tremendous [...]

Europe Passing the Buck on Abused Vietnamese Kids

Vietnamese children who are trafficked from Vietnam to the UK are being abused as they transit through Europe. And according to a new [...]

The Young Girls Enslaved in Bangladesh’s Brothels

Thousands of underage girls have been sold by traffickers into brothels in Bangladesh according to new reporting from The Guardian. [...]

Big business pushes to abandon New South Wales anti-slavery act

It’s the strongest anti-slavery legislation in the world, and the first state law that would mandate penalties for companies that [...]

Nepalese migrant work ban leaves women trapped in exploitation

The sponsorship system of employment present in all, but not only, Gulf countries, grants employers control over employees that leave [...]

U.N. report shows migrant workers in Qatar still suffer under kafala

A new report by the U.N., due to be presented at the U.N. Human Rights Council this week, found that migrant workers in Qatar are [...]

Independent legal review finds China in full breach of Genocide Convention

Washington, D.C. non-partisan think tank, Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, this week published an in-depth report [...]

Qatar’s migrant workers still exploited despite labor reforms

Qatar once again made the headlines for exploitative working conditions for migrants. This week, the Guardian investigated the [...]

U.K. fast-track deportation plans impacting Vietnamese trafficking survivors

U.K. fast-track deportation plans impacting trafficking survivors

A large number of Vietnamese potential trafficking survivors in the U.K. are being detained and caught up in plans for deportation [...]

Dubai’s Expo 2022 under spotlight for migrant worker abuses

Since opening in October 2021, the Expo show hosted in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is expected to attract tens of millions [...]

Children recruited into orphanages to meet volunteer demand

Girls bought and sold “like a chicken” in Niger

In Niger today, tens of thousands of people are enslaved, trapped in generational cycles. Slavery remains deeply entrenched in Niger [...]

The trafficking victims behind Cambodia’s online scam companies

Xu Mingjian lay on the ground in pain as his captors laughed at him. He had injured his spine trying to escape from a building in [...]

Australia’s Uyghur community pushes government to take action on Uyghur Region

Migrant workers feel unsafe in Australia

A new poll by an Australian migrants rights NGO has revealed that a substantial number of migrants find themselves in precarious work [...]

When it comes to modern slavery, “trusting a company’s word” doesn’t suffice

MPs and anti-slavery groups are sounding the alarm after recent revelations that ministers in the U.K. are simply “taking the [...]

Rights campaigners and Fashion Council oppose Shein joining London’s stock exchange

Shein has long been plagued by accusations of exploitative and forced labor conditions in its supply chains. In addition, it has faced [...]