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How seasonal farm migrants to UK got caught in a debt trap
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How seasonal farm migrants to UK got caught in a debt trap

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Migrant workers pick apples at a famr in Suckley, Britain, in October 2016. | Reuters When Raj heard British farmers were hiring seasonal workers from Nepal last year, he jumped at the chance to earn what he thought would be a sizeable income for his family. Having already worked in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, the…

Digital divide leaving trafficking survivors at risk of re-exploitation
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Digital divide leaving trafficking survivors at risk of re-exploitation

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Trafficking survivors have reported being forced to choose between buying food and maintaining mobile data packages so that they can access the digital platform to prove their right to work and rent a property in the U.K. The digital divide Digital platforms for migrants to prove their immigration status are becoming increasingly common around the…

Thailand bans use of prison labor to make fishing nets
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Thailand bans use of prison labor to make fishing nets

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At Freedom United, we campaign to end forced labor in prisons and the conditions of servitude in which nearly 800,000 incarcerated people in the U.S. are producing goods and services for corporations for pennies. In Thailand, the authorities are taking action: they banned the use of prison labor for the manufacturing of fishing nets after…

U.N. urged to investigate organ harvesting in China
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U.N. urged to investigate organ harvesting in China

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  By Emma Batha LONDON, Sept 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A senior lawyer called on Tuesday for the top United Nations human rights body to investigate evidence that China is murdering members of the Falun Gong spiritual group and harvesting their organs for transplant. Hamid Sabi called for urgent action as he presented the…

Victims and villains: Anti-trafficking movement urged to tackle racial bias
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Victims and villains: Anti-trafficking movement urged to tackle racial bias

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By Christine Murray MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Global protests about racism and police brutality should act as a wake-up call to the anti-human trafficking movement over the approach of law enforcement, treatment of Black victims and a lack of racial diversity, academics and activists said. The legacy of ‘white slave traffic’ – a…

Agonising film SOLD shows the brutality of child trafficking | Daily Mail Online
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Agonising film SOLD shows the brutality of child trafficking | Daily Mail Online

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‘Trafficking children for sex is an abomination of humanity’: Gillian Anderson admits being shocked at the scale of the slave trade in India Up to 46 million people globally live as slaves, generating an estimated $150 billion in illegal profits a year An estimated 1.8 million children are sold into the sex trade every year …