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Fighting Sex and Labor Slavery in the US
Region: MassachusettsThe modern face of slavery abolition in the US is similar to the pioneers of slavery abolition in the mid 19th century. It was almost scandalous then, that numbers of women, like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman... more
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Human Trafficking: ‘Modern-Day Slavery’
Region: Virginia
By Kirk Maltais Capital News Service RICHMOND – A man in Falls Church kept as many as 24 Indonesian women locked in his basement over the course of eight years, using them as slave labor to run a housekeeping busin... more
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50 Dead Afghans Found in Failed Human Trafficking Scandal
Region: Pakistan
Quetta, Baluchistan: Some 50 dead bodies were recovered from a sealed container in Quetta today. At Hazar Ganji, some 15 Km from Quetta city, 50 dead bodies were recovered from a container. The conta... more
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Hunger Striker Hospitalized, Others Rally on Capitol Hill
Region: United States
by Mike Hall This morning, Christopher Glory, in the eighth day of a water-onlyhunger strike to demand the U.S. government put an end to the abuses in a visa program that workers’ rights ad... more
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New Report Shows True Cost of Shrimp to Workers
Region: Thailand
by James Parks Tasty shrimp comes with a high price tag—and in the $13 billion seafood processing industry, workers pay it. In a report released today, the Solidarity Center documents child labor, beatings and tort... more
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Indian Workers Demand Major Changes in Guest Worker Program
Region: United States
by James Parks Chanting, “All the way to the White House!” and carrying signs, saying “I Am A Man,” more than 70 Indian guest workers rallied at the White House gates Monday in a cold rain to dema... more
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The nefarious way of human trafficking continues
Region: PhilippinesHuman trafficking in Asia is an open secret that persisted long time ago. This problem has been an issue repeatedly discussed in every forums or conferences held in different venues all over the world. The involvem... more
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Bogus job offers abroad
Time and again, it is frustrating to hear that some unscrupulous people were reaping huge profits at the expense of innocent women, whose only intention was to land a job for them to improve their lives and that of th... more
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More than Ten Thousand children smuggled into North East India every year
Region: IndiaSHILLONG: Not less than 10,000 people, mostly children, are trafficked into the Northeast with a good number smuggled in from Bangladesh, Nepal and other South East Asian countries, surveys by NGOs have revealed. Most o... more
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Human Trafficking - An NGO's Initiative to tackle it
Region: IndiaHuman trafficking by definition is recruiting or transporting people with the sole aim of exploiting them.Exploiting people can take the forms of forcing them into prostitution,labour,begging and many more such forms.And a... more
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