Political Will

The Resurgence of Slavery in Pakistan: Implications of Climate Change
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The Resurgence of Slavery in Pakistan: Implications of Climate Change

The devastating floods that hit Pakistan last summer continue to have a lasting impact on farming families in rural Sindh and the Kacchi Plains of Balochistan. Despite six months passing since the floods, many fields remain underwater, and the soil is too damaged for planting seeds. The small tenant farmers, who are already burdened with…

Turkmenistan Mobilizing Thousands of Civilians in Cotton Harvest
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Turkmenistan Mobilizing Thousands of Civilians in Cotton Harvest

It’s still unclear whether Turkmenistan has the political will to root out forced labor from its own cotton fields, Allison Gill, forced labor program director at the Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum, told Sourcing Journal Monday. Gill, whose organization hosts the Cotton Campaign, a multistakeholder initiative that aims to eliminate state-sponsored forced labor in…

G20 countries including India are fuelling modern slavery, says new report
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G20 countries including India are fuelling modern slavery, says new report

50 million people are living in conditions of modern slavery — a 25% rise over the last five years, says a new report. According to it, the Group of 20 nations are contributing to this increase, as their trade operations and global supply chains allow for human rights abuses. Among the G20 nations, India tops the…

Why our thinking on human rights at sea should not end with seafarers
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Why our thinking on human rights at sea should not end with seafarers

It is generally accepted that human rights apply at sea, although there is no convention recognizing or proclaiming the existence and extent of such rights. However, the rights of those at sea continue to be abused. In recent years, much of the focus has rightly been on seafarers and the situation is improving, although there…

Stronger Labor Laws Could Combat Human Trafficking
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Stronger Labor Laws Could Combat Human Trafficking

Author Melissa Hope Ditmore suggests that current political attention on human trafficking is performative rather than practical. In her new book, she makes the case for enforcing and expanding labor laws.  There’s an ugly truth about what powers the United States economy, says Melissa Hope Ditmore. Our economic system depends on exploited labor and forced…

Survivors of human trafficking to receive economic empowerment – BusinessGhana
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Survivors of human trafficking to receive economic empowerment – BusinessGhana

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has, therefore, been signed between the International Justice Mission (IJM) and United Way, Ghana to create an effective community-based solutions to end human trafficking in the country. It is also to support the survivors whilst equipping them to fight against the menace A statement jointly signed by Madam Anita Budu,…

BTA. Meeting at Foreign Ministry Discusses Human Trafficking Prevention, Punishment, Protection
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BTA. Meeting at Foreign Ministry Discusses Human Trafficking Prevention, Punishment, Protection

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 16, ARMENPRESS. The joint determination to prevent human trafficking, effectively punish perpetrators and protect victims was discussed at a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between caretaker Foreign Minister Nikolay Milkov and Dr. Kari Johnstone, Acting Director and Principal Deputy Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the…

Africa: Raising the Alarm On the Slow Pace of Family Law Reform – allAfrica.com
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Africa: Raising the Alarm On the Slow Pace of Family Law Reform – allAfrica.com

Colombo, Sri Lanka — The writer is Campaign Manager – Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law In September 2021, in the midst of a pandemic-related lockdown, a 15-year-old Muslim girl from Colombo, Sri Lanka was married off by her relatives to a much older man. A local women’s rights group reported this case to…

Uphold Human Rights – myRepublica – The New York Times Partner, Latest news of Nepal …
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Uphold Human Rights – myRepublica – The New York Times Partner, Latest news of Nepal …

Nepal, along with the rest of the world, marked the International Human Rights Day last Saturday. The Day is celebrated every year on December 10, to mark the proclamation of universal human rights by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. This year’s slogan is ‘Dignity, freedom and justice for all’. As a UN member…

Human rights groups urge the U.S. government to sanction for human trafficking abuses
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Human rights groups urge the U.S. government to sanction for human trafficking abuses

The Honorable Janet L. Yellen Secretary of the Treasury U.S. Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20220 The Honorable Antony Blinken Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20520 December 8, 2022 Dear Secretary Yellen and Secretary Blinken: The undersigned nongovernmental organizations are writing to…