The world has 21 million slaves – and millions of them live in the west
Between 2003-2011, 2,700 charcoal camp workers in Brazil were liberated from conditions akin to slavery. Seven percent of slaves live in North America or the EU, but the problem is global. We must invest in protocols that work to fight trafficking and exploitation.
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10 ways to recognize modern slavery
One of the biggest obstacles to tackling modern slavery is that it’s often hiding in plain sight. To better understand how that happens, here is a list of ten situations, whish suggests 50forfreedom.org blog to recognize that people are in forced labour.
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The scars of modern slavery: trafficked people with severe mental illness
The phenomenon of human trafficking, the exploitation of one human by another, takes place across the globe and predominately targets women and children, writes an NIHR Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry and a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry in the department of Children’s Psychological Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Mina Fazel, who presented recently a research “Characteristics of trafficked adults and children with severe mental illness: a historical cohort study” to the #AntiSlaveryDay (This Day falls on 18th of October in UK as another opportunity to host events aimed at drawing attention to the issues of human trafficking and slavery). Read More
Nestle’s KitKat to Change Cocoa Supplies to Address Child Labor
Nestle SA said KitKat will become the first global chocolate brand to make all its products with sustainably sourced cocoa as the chocolate industry faces allegations of child labor in the supply of raw materials, writes Bloomberg.
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Knowledge crusade against trafficking for the youth of Stepanavan
On the 15th of August «Art Sight» LLC jointly with RA Ministry of Sport and Youth affairs has implemented already traditional “Knowledge crusade against trafficking” project’s first phase. Read More
Armenia once more is in the 1 Tier of countries combating with human trafficking
Once more Armenia has been categorized in the 1 Tier of countries combating with human trafficking by U.S. Department of States’ annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Read More
Over 500 Nepalese children sold into cheap labour and sex slavery in India after country’s devastating earthquake
The human traffickers have returned to the India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh, writes PIYUSH SRIVASTAVA for DailyMail.
These criminals have once again become active after the April 25 earthquake in Nepal, and are trafficking unsuspecting Nepalese minors by promising them jobs in India. Read More
Informally employed Syrian refugees, working under harsh conditions, further strain Jordanian labour market
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in neighboring Jordan has increased unemployment in areas in which they are highly concentrated, and further strained the host country’s infrastructure, resources and public services. Read More