LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At first glance a foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong, a Rohingya migrant toiling on a fishing boat, a sex worker walking the streets of Mumbai and a child ...

Labour MP Camilla Belich and National MP Greg Fleming combine forces with modern slavery bill that aims to 'stand against ...

Unbeknownst to the people who live in, use, finance, design, and construct them, many buildings are made with materials that are produced with slave labor. Modern slavery, according to a new report, ...

Modern slavery impacts producers, suppliers, and distributors across multiple industries. Investors who want to exclude companies involved in modern slavery from their portfolios must first define ...

At this moment, there are an estimated 40.3 million victims of modern slavery around the globe — a larger number than the entire population of Canada. Modern slavery is the severe exploitation of ...

December 3 marks the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery recognizing the adoption, by the U.N. General Assembly, of the U.N. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of ...

Comment: Together the National Party and the Labour Party are seeking to address the international problem with modern-day slavery, following the announcement in January of a joint modern slavery bill ...

The United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act, enacted on March 26 2015, has turned ten years old. The legislation, which nominally introduced and strengthened protections for people who survived situations ...

Turkey has risen to the fifth rank in the world in the Global Slavery Index. In the last report the same organization prepared in 2018, Turkey ranked 48th globally. However, this year only North Korea ...

SAN MARCOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everstream Analytics, the global supply chain insights and risk analytics company, announced today that it has partnered with supply chain consultancy and social ...

The footprint of modern slavery can be found all around us – if only we were made aware so that we could open eyes to the problem. The clothes we wear. The smartphones in our pockets. The solar panels ...

“It’s time that New Zealand has a coordinated framework to deal with modern slavery, and this bill does just that. “It will require large organisations to publicly report on modern slavery risks and ...