Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a global human rights organization that works to promote and protect human rights around the world, including the right to be free from human trafficking. Amnesty International conducts research and advocacy on human trafficking, and works to raise public awareness about the issue. The organization also advocates for policy changes at the national and international levels to prevent trafficking and protect the rights of trafficking victims.

 

Venezuela Security Policy: The Criminal Exploitation of the Migrant Crisis
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Venezuela Security Policy: The Criminal Exploitation of the Migrant Crisis

Over the last decade, millions of Venezuelans have fled economic collapse and political turmoil, creating what is possibly the biggest migration crisis in the world. This exodus has represented a massive political challenge for the countries migrants have sought passage through or refuge in. It has also represented a major opportunity for organized crime.  Over…

36 Days of Type: Indian Laws That Shaped Our Lives
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36 Days of Type: Indian Laws That Shaped Our Lives

For #36DaysOfType, The Swaddle’s Denise D’Souza illustrated the A-Z of Indian laws that have impacted Indians in unforeseen ways. ⁠ The Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA) grants the military the ability to maintain public order in ‘disturbed areas,’ through wide powers of arrest, the right to shoot to kill, and to occupy or…

URI professor discusses worsening child labor in the United States
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URI professor discusses worsening child labor in the United States

KINGSTON, R.I. – March 13, 2023 -In recent weeks, the issue of child labor in the United States – particularly among migrant children – has come under new scrutiny. In mid-February, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a release detailing a $1.5 million penalty paid by Packers Sanitation Services Inc., one of the largest food…

Repression, Debt, Corruption and Human Trafficking: Hun Sen's Cambodian Legacy
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Repression, Debt, Corruption and Human Trafficking: Hun Sen's Cambodian Legacy

  Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s record of 38 years in power is currently exceeded by only three African despots. The presidents of Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and Uganda, Théodoros Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Paul Biya, and Yoweri Museveni, have all held power for longer than Hun Sen. Like him, they are political fossils who have done…

Migrants in Gulf states arrested and deported en masse
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Migrants in Gulf states arrested and deported en masse

Migrants in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait have been the subject of intensified efforts to increase deportations in recent months. Kafala system leaving migrants at risk of deportation As a result of the kafala system which governs the relationship between migrant workers and their employers in these states, many migrant workers are forced into the…

UN praises Indonesia for aiding Rohingya, asks other nations to follow suit
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UN praises Indonesia for aiding Rohingya, asks other nations to follow suit

December 29, 2022 JAKARTA – The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has commended Indonesia for rescuing hundreds of Rohingya refugees who were stranded at sea for weeks and called on other nations in the region to do their part to address the fresh boat crisis. “Indonesia has helped to save [more than 400] people in…

Rohingya man recounts nightmare of being adrift at sea – Radio Free Asia
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Rohingya man recounts nightmare of being adrift at sea – Radio Free Asia

Muhammad Taher knew he was risking his life when he decided to leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh and board a decrepit-looking boat to Indonesia, but the father-of-four was desperate to work. He almost didn’t make it. A week after the boat carrying more than 180 people set off, its engine broke down. Those…

FIFA refuses to set up compensation fund for exploited workers
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FIFA refuses to set up compensation fund for exploited workers

The world’s soccer governing body, FIFA, has reportedly refused to set up a support fund for migrant workers who suffered abuses working on key World Cup projects. Failure to act Freedom United is deeply disappointed at this announcement from FIFA, an organisation set to rake in over $7 billion from the tournament. Human rights organizations,…

Saudi Arabia To Ease Restrictions On Foreign Workers – Radio Free Europe
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Saudi Arabia To Ease Restrictions On Foreign Workers – Radio Free Europe

In the 15 months since the Taliban took power, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls — a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to parents’ belief that securing a spouse for their girls is better than seeing them forced to marry members of the Taliban. Marrying their girls…

Ahead of final Nepalis demand FIFA compensate migrant workers
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Ahead of final Nepalis demand FIFA compensate migrant workers

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…