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People are being forced against their will to produce everything from Christmas decorations in China to pornography in Russia and shrimp in Thailand, according to a major new report by the US Department of Labor. The report, The Department of Labor’s List of Goods produced by Child Labor or… Keep reading »
3 September 2009 Romanian Roma children are being trafficked across Europe to become beggars and thieves, according to the BBC’s One World (shown 2 September 2009). The programme revealed Children as young as 10 years old forced by their parents and other members of their community to pick pockets, steal… Keep reading »
24 August 2009 Child tobacco pickers in Malawi forced to work without protective clothing are being exposed to poisonous amounts of nicotine equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes a day, says Plan International in a new report. The children, some as young as 5 years old, work for 12 hours a… Keep reading »
28 July 2009 A father and his two sons have been jailed for a total of eighteen years for running a criminal multi-million pound film piracy industry in London that used ‘a slave labour force’ of Chinese workers (28 July 2009). Khalid Sheikh, 53, and his sons, Sami 28 and… Keep reading »
24 July 2009 The link between child labour in rural India and the global cosmetics industry has been uncovered in an investigation by the Sunday Times. Accompanying campaigners from Indian child rights group Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), the newspaper discovered children as young as six years old working in mica… Keep reading »
16 July 2009 Anti-Slavery International is one of the leading UK non-governmental organisations to set up a new Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group, which aims to ensure that presumed trafficked persons in the UK can access their rights. The group seeks to understand the impact on presumed trafficked persons of the first… Keep reading »
26 June 2009 A new report by Human Right Watch has accused the Zimbabwean military of using forced labour in the Marange diamond fields in the east of the country. The report accuses Zanu-PF controlled soldiers of forcing hundreds of children and adults to mine for diamonds, as well as… Keep reading »
22 May 2009 SOS Esclaves have been awarded the 2009 Anti-Slavery Award for nearly 15 years of fighting slavery in Mauritania, a country where an estimated 18 per cent of the population, or 600,000 people, are born and continue to live in slavery. Receiving the award on Wednesday 27 May… Keep reading »
12 May 2009 In the wake of the decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to backdate compensation for former Bangladeshi child camel jockeys, Anti-Slavery International calls for the UAE to explain the whereabouts of the nearly 2,000 unaccounted for child camel jockeys who have not yet returned to their… Keep reading »
30 April 2009 Hadijatou Mani, the former slave who successfully sued Niger for failing to protect her from slavery, has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The 25-year-old was recognised in the 2009 list alongside the likes of Barack Obama… Keep reading »