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The World Cup may drawing to a close but we aren’t ending the call for migrant workers to be compensated for their work and abuse they suffered while doing so. Freedom United and Be Slavery Free, representing over 107,000 global supporters around the world, are calling on FIFA and Qatari authorities to take action for…
“It was like a prison. […] It was traumatic. There were high walls, barbed wires, cameras everywhere. Everywhere you went there were locked doors.” – Jasmine (not her real name) Speaking to openDemocracy, Jasmine shares the awful conditions she faced when locked up in immigration detention centers around the U.K., with her latest detention in…
“About half an hour after we left… we heard a drone over our head… Two hours later… a boat appeared: it was the Libyans,” Abu Laila* told Human Rights Watch and Border Forensics. His story resonates with the broader evidence shared by the organizations this week in a multimedia research feature with a clear…
The U.K. Statistics Regulator has released a statement announcing that they have not found evidence to support the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s claims that people are abusing the U.K.’s modern slavery laws and “gaming the system”. Dangerous and unsubstantiated rhetoric Damaging rhetoric from the U.K. government has contributed to an environment that casts doubt on…
When working as a cook in the Sudanese embassy in London, Fatima Benkharbouche faced exploitation: her employer failed to pay her minimum wage, withheld some of her salary and breached working time rules. She made an employment tribunal claim, but because her employer had diplomatic immunity, her claim was originally dismissed. The law is…
Supermarkets have raised concerns around the U.K.’s seasonal worker visa system which is leaving migrant workers vulnerable to exploitation, and supermarkets at risk of falling foul of their human rights obligations. Unheeded warnings Criticisms have been levelled against the scheme since its hasty inception with warning from labor rights groups being ignored by the government…
The position of the Council of the European Union on a draft E.U. corporate accountability law has dealt a devastating blow: Member States have watered down human rights protections, majorly limited the law’s scope and failed to set enforceable climate commitments for companies. The Council guts the law The Council has agreed on its preliminary…
Bangladeshi migrant workers are reporting returning to their home countries saddled with debt after paying high recruitment fees to work in Qatar. These costs include paying for international travel, passports, visas, medical fees and other charges. Contracts cut short In order to break even, a Bangladeshi 2020 Cost of Migration Survey found that male workers…
In a report this week, Australia’s Clean Energy Council is calling for more local manufacturing of renewable energy products in response to growing evidence of modern slavery in the global clean energy industry. The Guardian reports, Released on Tuesday, the paper said slavery in all supply chains was a global problem. But Australia is on…
Appalling treatment of low-paid migrant workers in Qatar has been under the spotlight as the World Cup gets underway. Amid intense scrutiny on Qatar’s human rights record and its treatment of migrant workers, activists in the U.S. are raising their own concerns about similar treatment in the U.S. and inviting us to look inward at…
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