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Judges, prosecutors and legal aid practitioners’ training on forced labour, Facilitator’s guide
September 20, 2021

Judges, prosecutors and legal aid practitioners’ training on forced labour, Facilitator’s guide

Background This “Facilitator’s guide: Judges, prosecutors and legal aid practitioners’ training on forced labour” aims at providing a training package …

September 17, 2021

EU to ban forced labor products amid China’s tougher stance

STRASBOURG (Reuters) – The EU is seeking to impose an import ban on products of forced labor, the bloc leader …

September 16, 2021

U.S. cracks down on imported goods made by Uyghurs and other victims of forced labor

Image: A farmer picks cotton in Hami in northwest China’s Xinjiang Region on Oct. 9, 2020.Feature China / Barcroft Media …

September 16, 2021

The 3 things experts are watching to evaluate the Taliban

Image: Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul on August 23. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images The biggest question since …

September 16, 2021

Human trafficking: UN chief calls for action as COVID leaves ‘many millions’ more vulnerable

Image: UNICEF/Marco Dormino, An eight-year-old girl hides her face at a UNICEF-supported centre in Haiti that provides temporary care and …

September 16, 2021

Malawi Struggles to End Sex Trafficking as Cases Rise

Image: AP COVID-19-driven economic and social difficulties in Malawi have caused an increase in sex trafficking in the southern African …

Southern Oregon investigators suspect human trafficking, forced labor at cannabis farm
September 16, 2021

Southern Oregon investigators suspect human trafficking, forced labor at cannabis farm

The Josephine County Sheriff’s department raided a ranch in Southern Oregon’s Illinois Valley this week as part of an investigation …

September 14, 2021

How corporations buy—and sell—food made with prison labor

In 2011, Leprino Foods, the $3 billion company that supplies all the mozzarella to Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, and Domino’s …

September 14, 2021

Public Universities, Prison-Made Furniture

Office furniture at the University of Virginia is made in prisons. So is some of the furniture at George Mason University and the University of …

As Juneteenth marks the end of slavery, lawmakers turn their focus to forced prison labor
September 14, 2021

As Juneteenth marks the end of slavery, lawmakers turn their focus to forced prison labor

Days after the official nationwide abolition of slavery in December 1865, Alabama made it illegal for Black farm employees to sell …