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With a month to go before the Olympics, prospective workers are being warned of the dangers of forced labour in London and especially of falling foul to false promises of jobs related to the Games. Speaking at the Passage, a homelessness organisation based in Victoria, London, at 11am… Keep reading »
31 May 2012 The European Union should urge the Uzbek government to grant access to the International Labour Organization (ILO) to monitor the 2012 cotton harvest, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations said in letters to the European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton and Denmark’s foreign minister, Villy Søvndal. The monitoring… Keep reading »
23 August 2011 23 August – 20 November 2011 In partnership with Anti-Slavery International A new exhibition at the Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands will lift the lid on the shocking reality of trafficking and forced labour in the capital. The exhibition, which opens on 23… Keep reading »
4 December 2009 Mexican police have rescued 107 indigenous people held in forced labour at a factory in Mexico City disguised as a drugs rehabilitation centre. Twenty three suspects were arrested following a raid by police on Thursday 3 December. A further two more were arrested the following morning. The… Keep reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »
6 January 2009 Thousands of civilians in Darfur are being abducted for forced labour and sexual slavery by the Sudanese Army and government backed militia, according to a report published in December. Many of the abductions take place during armed raids by Janjaweed militia on the villages of Fur, Massaliet,… Keep reading »
27 May 2008 The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has achieved a major victory in its Campaign for Fair Food after fast-food giant Burger King agreed to work with them to improve the wages and working conditions of those who pick its tomatoes. Under the agreement signed between the CIW… Keep reading »
19 December 2007 In December, the Independent newspaper reported the story of three Florida fruit-pickers held captive and exploited by their employer for over a year. When they were found, they carried scars of beatings to their head and body, knife wounds, bruising and cuts. They had been forced into… Keep reading »