A legal challenge has revealed that UK Home Office ministers overruled their own officials who lobbied for immigration detainees to be [...]
Source: The Guardian
Hundreds of Trafficked Kids ‘Lost’ by Authorities
A quarter of trafficked children who were under the care of local authorities in the UK have gone missing according to new research [...]
€20m EU Scheme in Eritrea Finances Forced Labor
Eritreans living in exile in Europe are charging the European Union with financing forced labor in Eritrea, filing legal proceedings to [...]
Ship of horrors: life and death on the high seas
Forced labor, appalling living conditions, sexual assault, bullying. Working on the high seas is a harsh occupation, but one fleet of [...]
Forced labor and dangerous work environments lead to misery in Qatar
Creating a world spectacle doesn’t happen overnight. It takes several years, a lot of money, and the efforts of many thousands of [...]
Refugees subjected to forced labor in Libya now threatened by coronavirus
Refugees and migrants across Libya, including many survivors of modern slavery, are fearing for their future amid disruptions to aid, [...]
Beirut’s domestic workers struggling to survive in aftermath of explosion
As the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated an existing economic crisis in Lebanon, its many migrant domestic workers already bore the [...]
U.S. massage workers see police as biggest threat to their safety
The Guardian reports that, in the United States, many massage workers are more afraid of police and law enforcement raids than client [...]
Freedom United calls on U.K. government to pass corporate accountability laws
Freedom United and our partners have submitted a letter to the U.K. government calling for the passage of mandatory human rights and [...]
U.K. MPs vote on bill to ban child marriage
UPDATE: The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill passed its second reading with government support! We have been waiting [...]
Cadbury faces fresh accusations of child labour on cocoa farms in Ghana
In parting shot, UN Rights Chief accuses China of Uyghur rights abuses
With only 11 minutes to spare, outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, released her long-awaited damning [...]
Tesco implicated in forced labor of Burmese workers in Thailand
The U.K.’s largest grocery chain Tesco is facing a ground-breaking lawsuit alleging forced labor at a supplier factory in [...]
U.K. forced marriage unit “not working well” says new report
According to a new report, the U.K.’s forced marriage unit is limited in its effectiveness in tackling forced marriage as a result of [...]
Ghag forced marriage: a continued trauma
In northwest Pakistan, many women and girls are forced into marriages based on an outlawed custom named ghag, where a man can forcibly [...]
U.K.’s inadequate system may be returning victims to traffickers
Thousands of potential trafficking victims known to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), the U.K.’s decision-making body on modern [...]
Ukraine Trafficking Crisis, Sex and Lies
Ukraine's trafficking crisis is a messy combination of lies and sex...
Traffickers Benefit from Migration Crisis
Traffickers benefit from Europe's migration crisis. In the midst of the turmoil, criminal gangs are forcing more and more people into [...]
Civil Servant Kept African Worker in Domestic Servitude
A civil servant and her husband kept a Nigerian worker in domestic servitude in their home for years. “Rashida Ajayi said she had [...]
Children Recovering from Domestic Slavery in Zanzibar
Rose labored as a child domestic worker from sunrise to sundown, unpaid and physically abused for months while working for a wealthy [...]
“I was Bought for 50,000 Rupees”: India’s Trafficked Brides
Tahmina was just 13 when her own sister sold her into marriage with a man 30 years her senior. The pricetag? 50,000 rupees (£557). [...]
The ‘Double Burden’ of Rampant Child Labor in the Tobacco Industry
Cigarettes sold in the US, Europe, and other parts of the world likely contain tobacco that was produced through child labor according [...]
Paraguay’s Exports Linked to Indigenous Slave Labor
The Chaco region of Paraguay covers more than half of the country’s land. As an environment resistant to drought and excessive [...]
Asylum Seeker Sues UK for Funding Libyan Detention Centers
An Ethiopian teenager is suing the UK government over its support for Libyan detention centers, where he says he was subjected to [...]