LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At first glance a foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong, a Rohingya migrant toiling on a fishing boat, a sex worker walking the streets of Mumbai and a child ...
December 3 marks the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery recognizing the adoption, by the U.N. General Assembly, of the U.N. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of ...
Turkey has risen to the fifth rank in the world in the Global Slavery Index. In the last report the same organization prepared in 2018, Turkey ranked 48th globally. However, this year only North Korea ...
Research by the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab has identified that slavery and human trafficking are present in 90 per cent of modern wars. Modern slavery experts Professor Kevin Bales, ...
Sadly, yes. A recent report from the International Labor Organization estimated that at least 50 million people around the world were living in modern slavery. That figure means nearly one out of ...
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SAN MARCOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everstream Analytics, the global supply chain insights and risk analytics company, announced today that it has partnered with supply chain consultancy and social ...
March 24 - It is 10 years since the UK introduced the Modern Slavery Act, allowing it to claim to be a world leader in the fight against modern slavery and a true ally to victims of this pernicious ...
Marija Jovanovic received funding for this research from the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC), which in turn is funded by the Arts and Humanities ...
A new report from the U.K.’s leading research institute on modern slavery has shown that prosecutions of offenders under the country’s Modern Slavery Act (MSA) remain very low relative to the amount ...