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Inside Pakistan's brick kilns where millions are trapped in modern-day slavery, working dangerous...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBilawal Bhatti and Maqbool Ahmed In Pakistan, families are forced to make over 1,500 bricks a day to...
Migrant workers on British farms trapped in ‘debt bondage’, MPs told
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoGovernment inspectors have found cases of debt bondage among seasonal agricultural workers in the...
The international problem of modern slavery
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA ball and chain. Illustrated | Getty Images While slavery is often thought of as a relic of history, there are many locations around the world where the...
Migrant fruit picker may have been modern slavery victim under Home Office scheme, government finds
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA fruit picker from Bolivia may have been subjected to modern slavery under a government scheme, The...
Slavery is not gone, it has just moved out to sea
Yahoo News via AOL· 2 years agoWhile forced labor still exists throughout the world, one place where it’s especially pervasive is the South China Sea — especially in the Thai fishing...
Three people found guilty of modern slavery offences
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoThree people who exploited and abused a vulnerable worker have been convicted of modern slavery offences. Normunds Freibergs, 40, and his accomplices...
Brazil rescues hundreds held in modern-day slave conditions
Reuters via AOL· 9 months agoBrazilian authorities rescued 532 workers held in modern-day slavery in August, in the country's largest joint operation of the kind, labor prosecutors announced on Tuesday as the government ...
China leads list of labor abusers, sometimes akin to slavery, detected on fishing vessels worldwide
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHazardous, forced work conditions sometimes akin to slavery have been detected on nearly 500...
Labour abuses - sometimes akin to slavery - detected on European fishing vessels
Euronews via Yahoo News· 7 months agoResearch by a Washington DC-based organisation which tracks illicit money flows has found that tens...
Fashion firms relying on paper promises to tackle forced labour – campaigners
PA Media: Money via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoSome of the world’s biggest fashion brands are relying on paper promises to eradicate forced labour,...