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1 August 2007 North Korean economic migrants are being deported from China and illegally used as forced labour in North Korean prison camps, a new report from Anti-Slavery International reveals. Forced Labour in North Korean Prison Camps includes 30 interviews with North Korean men and women who were imprisoned in… Keep reading »
17 July 2007 A man was sentenced to death and 28 others imprisoned on 17 July for using forced labour in brick kilns in Shanxi province, China. Those found guilty include a brick kiln supervisor who was sentenced to death for killing a man and a kiln foreman who was… Keep reading »
6 July 2007 Brazilian authorities freed over 1,100 forced labourers from a sugar cane plantation in the Amazon in the biggest raid to date. The government’s Mobile Inspection Group led the three-day raid, which ended on 2 July, against a plantation owned by the country’s largest ethanol producer in Para… Keep reading »
23 January 2007 In a welcome move, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced on 22 January the United Kingdom would sign the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings, bringing the guarantee of help and protection for all trafficked people in the UK a step closer. Anti-Slavery… Keep reading »