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America’s farm fields filled with a silent workforce
Hazardous child labor in California’s agricultural sector is enabled by weak enforcement and hostile immigration policy. Across the state’s fields, …
The global garment industry built on gendered exploitation
The global garment manufacturing workforce is 60-80% women. Thus, labor rights protections in the sector, or the lack of them, …
100 years later, the Slavery Convention remains crucial as slavery continues to evolve
Slavery continues to evolve, shifting into new forms that remain hidden across global industries. Though a century has passed since …
Critical report addressing trafficking epidemic of Indigenous peoples eliminated by US government
The disappearance of a federally mandated report to address high numbers of Indigenous deaths, disappearances, and trafficking has exposed a …
UN warns of exploitation and debt bondage as stranded migrants board flight to Malaysia
Sixty Bangladeshi migrants boarded a flight to Malaysia this week through the Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Services Limited (BOESL) program. …
Hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria as campaign of terror continues
In a hauntingly familiar narrative, 315 Nigerian schoolgirls have been forcibly taken at gunpoint from their school by armed insurgents. …
Women directly in the sites of cyber-slavery traffickers thanks to AI
In an increasingly common crime, dotting the jungles of Cambodia and Myanmar are huge, sprawling compounds, home to massive self-contained …
Giving Tuesday- 9 reasons it’s better than Black Friday
First it’s Thanksgiving. Then the shopping season begins with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, before we reach Giving Tuesday! So …
Libya’s flourishing trafficking industry fueled by EU-backed system
Libya’s rapidly expanding smuggling economy has become a core part of the country’s political system, driving cycles of detention, ransom, …
A “historic moment” for fisherman in fight against slavery at sea
A case brought by four Indonesian fishermen who are survivors of slavery at sea just cleared a major legal hurdle. …