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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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
We can’t ignore slavery in the bid to lift millions out of poverty
The struggle to end, finally, this most abject form of exploitation remains of marginal concern in the development community, writes TheGuardian.
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Ivory Coast frees 48 child slaves, arrests traffickers
Dakar – Police in Ivory Coast freed 48 child slaves in raids on plantations in the country’s Western cocoa belt and arrested 22 people accused of trafficking or exploiting children, Interpol said on Monday. Read More
Young children being used for street crime, warns anti-slavery commissioner
Young children are being tasked with pickpocketing, shoplifting and begging on Britain’s streets in scenarios like those in Oliver Twist, the anti-slavery commissioner has warned. Read More
Hien’s story: A child trafficked from Vietnam into forced labour in the UK
June is a very special time, because it is the time of a feast of different dates dedicated to children and problems of their right’s protection. The 1st and the 12th of June are dedicated to children’s protection (International Day for Protection of Children) and combating against child labour (World Day against Child Labour). Specialists say, that today over 3,000 children enslaved in Britain after being trafficked from Vietnam. Read More
The 1st of June is an International Day for Protection of Children!
The 1st of June International Day for Protection of Children or Children’s Day is recognized on various days in many places around the world, to honor children globally. So this Day means not only the first day of the summer, but something more for children’s future. Read More
Student debates on the subject of human trafficking in Yerevan
On the 29th of November final phase of republican championship of “Student debate” took place in Ani Plaza Hotel in Yerevan. Debates were held in the frame of “Civic engagement – student debates” program.
The final debate was around the “Men are more vulnerable in trafficking arena” thesis. Read More
Number of women convicted for human trafficking “exceptionally high” -UN
Nearly three in 10 convicted human traffickers worldwide are female, according to a U.N. report on Monday which found that women play a bigger role in trafficking than other major crimes such as murder or robbery. Read More
Slavery’s Shadow on Switzerland
Two months ago, I discovered that my grandmother, Ida, had been a verdingkind, or “contract child” in Switzerland in the 1890s.
A transcript from the archives in Teuffenthal, a small village south of Bern, the capital, confirmed that Ida, an orphan, had been contracted as an unpaid domestic servant to a woman in a neighboring village. Read More