Increasing numbers of Hungarians are being lured by false promises of a better life into modern slavery in the UK, The Guardian [...]
Source: The Guardian
Australia’s anti-slavery efforts risk being derailed by business interests
Campaigners and legal advocates have decried the fact that Australia’s newly appointed expert panel to tackle modern slavery is [...]
Home Office rejects 12-month support for trafficking victims
Despite repeated calls from trafficking survivors, activists, and anti-slavery organizations to expand support for survivors of modern [...]
Tobacco companies seek to dismiss Malawi forced child labor case
Two major U.K. tobacco firms accused of exploiting farmers and their children in Malawi have requested that the case against them be [...]
Decriminalization of sex work in Victoria could help prevent trafficking
Victoria may follow New South Wales and the Northern Territory in fully decriminalizing sex work as a new bill is due to be introduced [...]
Data exposes U.K.’s revictimization of confirmed trafficking survivors
As the Nationality and Borders Bill went to the House of Lords – the U.K. parliament’s upper house – for debate this week, new data [...]
Trafficking victims traumatized by indefinite immigration detention in U.K.
This week, a U.K. high court judge rejected requests from three Sudanese victims of trafficking and torture, who had been threatened [...]
Number of trafficking victims detained in prison-like settings triples
A new report exposes damning evidence: the U.K. government is locking up trafficking victims with the number tripling in the last four [...]
U.K. police report victims of sexual exploitation to immigration
Documents from the U.K. Home Office show that between 2020 and 2022, police reported 2,546 women and children to immigration [...]
New investigation says FIFA failed migrant workers in Qatar
A new investigation by Amnesty International has concluded that FIFA failed migrant workers in Qatar during the 2022 World Cup and [...]
The E.U. CSDDD – What is left after compromise?
After extensive negotiations and a near-failure to be passed, the European Council Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) and [...]
U.S. at critical juncture as child labor violations continue to rise
Child labor violations across the U.S. are rising as lawmakers have been rolling back state child labor protections. The U.S. is at a [...]
Brothers Homeless Waiting to Testify Against Traffickers
Two brothers from Lithuania were at first relieved that their nightmare of forced labor had ended. But after they were freed, Eugaras [...]
New Zealand’s First Human Trafficking Conviction
New Zealand's first human trafficking conviction was of a Fijian man.
Is Prime Minister May Truly an Anti-Slavery Crusader?
This article in The Guardian, takes a look at British Prime Minister Theresa May and her renewed campaign against slavery in her [...]
The Sikhs Secretly Abused in Italy
Singh walked into a police station knowing the risks of what he was about to do. But as he explained, “I am a Sikh. And when a [...]
Why Do For-Profit US Prisons Subject Detainees to Forced Labor?
Last year officials at the Stewart immigration detention center put Shoaib Ahmed, a 24-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh, in solitary [...]
Kenyan Domestic Worker Assaulted by Mob in Lebanon Faces Deportation
Two Kenyan domestic workers were assaulted in a mob attack caught on video in broad daylight in Lebanon. The footage shows a man in the [...]
Apple Factory Forced Chinese Students to Work ‘Like Robots’
Apple says it is investigating one of its supplier factories in southwest China now that it has emerged that Chinese students were [...]
My Boyfriend Sold One of My Kidneys – Then He Sold Me
Each day, some 100,000 people cross the border between Nepal and India, some on on foot, others in trucks or on bikes, mopeds and [...]
Home Office Scraps ‘Nonsensical’ 45-Day-Limit on Victim Support
The UK Home Office has officially scrapped its ‘nonsensical’ policy of limiting victims of modern slavery to 45-days of [...]
‘They see us as slaves’: Kenyan women head for the Gulf despite fears
In a busy recruitment agency in Nairobi, women line the halls in hope of securing a job as a domestic worker in the Gulf. It [...]
Modern slavery lurks behind cheap nail bars
A recent police raid on a London nail bar salon suspected of trapping migrant workers in modern slavery resulted in three arrests on [...]
U.K. failing to support thousands of potential trafficking victims
A new study has revealed that thousands of potential trafficking victims in the U.K. are not referred for vital services—despite [...]