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Climate disasters take Bangladesh children from classrooms to work
Scarred by COVID-19 lockdown, Indian migrants stick closer to home
EU eyes Big Tech to police child sex abuse online
In Depth
Inside Amazon's shadow workforce in Mexico
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Taking on the Traffickers
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Can global brands' green push improve Bangladesh labour rights?
Soccer-Southgate questions benefit of Qatar World Cup boycott
Foreign students fleeing Ukraine battle racism, extortion
Thailand pledges to ban forced prison labour after expose
U.S. urged to ban Thai fishing net suppliers using prison labour
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Pilots say Qatar Airways monitors and muzzles staff online
Nestle to give cocoa farmers cash to keep children in school
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Qatar Airways pilots raise alarm over doctored hours, fatigue
UK BLM protesters acquitted over pulling down slave trader statue
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Brazil's charcoal industry fuels illegal deforestation and slavery
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Thai prisoners forced to make fishing nets
In a first, Indian gig company sues protesting women workers
India sex workers seek to be counted after court upholds rights
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In the year to end child labour, COVID wreaks havoc
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Malaysia's labour abuse allegations a risk to export growth model
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Lebanon hands its undocumented a win - but little work
As Myanmar unions demand sanctions garment workers fear job losses
Protests over, Indian farmers pin hope on price support
Uncontacted Amazon tribes endangered in Peru, Brazil
Oil CEOs stress need for fossil fuels despite cleaner energy push
Gender equality takes one step forward, three back during COVID
One in eight children found at risk of becoming child soldiers
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After maids die in Saudi Arabia, Kenyan relatives sound alarm
Ethiopia's speed schools give child labourers a second chance
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Food delivery drivers question gig platforms' safety nets
Calls for new laws as tech fuels 'explosion' of online sex abuse
'Like slaves': Lebanon's delivery riders struggle as crisis bites
Renewable energy jobs grew globally in 2020 despite COVID crisis
Mozambican slave descendants fight for snatched S. African land
Sitting pretty? Indian shop workers win the right to a chair
China's Belt and Road plans losing momentum as debts mount
Thai airport workers seek compensation for lost lunch breaks
Cambodia raises minimum textiles wage by $2
California to require garment industry to pay hourly wages to work
R. Kelly convicted of luring women, underage girls for sex
African sex workers face digital abuse as COVID pushes them online
New York City's delivery worker protections seen as watershed
COVID-fuelled child labour crisis spurs call for global fund
Social entrepreneurs fight to make gig work fairer, greener
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Climate migrants said to face greater risk of modern slavery
Chinese scammers enslave jobless teachers and tourists in Cambodia
Congo's Ebola orphans work to survive amid trauma and stigma
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About our Slavery coverage

We shine a light on human trafficking, forced labour and modern-day slavery.

Opinion

Jewher Ilham Worker Rights Consortium

U.S. law to ban goods using Uyghur forced labor is just the start

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act marks a major milestone in the fight to end forced labor in Xinjiang. But we must do more to stop the abuse of my people.
Emeline Wuilbercq

Child labour can only be eliminated by tackling the root causes

This week's 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour aims to bolster action to end the practice by 2025, but fighting poverty and changing attitudes will take much longer
Namrata Raju Equidem

Discrimination and forced labour at Dubai's Expo

The United Arab Emirates must address the plight of low-paid migrant workers
Rejimon Kuttappan

OPINION: Stories of Indian migrants in the Arab Gulf

Documented or undocumented, till this Kafala is removed in this region, migrants will be slaves.

In Depth

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In Brazil, charcoal industry fuels illegal deforestation and slavery
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EXCLUSIVE - Jails in Thailand force prisoners to make fishing nets under threat of violence
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Food delivery drivers question gig platforms' safety nets
Health official alleges ‘sexual slavery’ in Tigray; women blame soldiers

Videos & Pictures

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Sex trafficking - a family business
The lost girls of Myanmar
Generations of Romanian girls trafficked into sex industry
Frontline Insight: Photographing Libya’s slaves
Getting to Europe: The Game
UK police in the fight against human trafficking

Editor's Picks

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ANALYSIS - Mexico's ban on subcontracting aimed to help workers: Is it succeeding?
Brazil's anti-slavery wins bring new test: how to compensate victims
Chinese tech patents tools that can detect, track Uighurs
Migrant school closures fuel child labour in Thai seafood industry