By Kate Hodal and Annie Kelly Published on June 30, 2016 in The Guardian Rights groups say Thailand’s upgraded standing in Trafficking in Persons report was politically motivated and ignores reported abuses in Thai fishing industry International rights groups have...
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U.S. Criticizes Myanmar Over Human Trafficking
By Emmarie Huetteman Published on June 30, 2016 in The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday listed Myanmar as among the worst offenders in human trafficking, consigning a country President Obama only four years ago brought in from the diplomatic...
Shandra Woworuntu: My Life as a Sex-Trafficking Victim
By Shandra Woworuntu Published on March 30, 2016 by BBC Magazine Shandra Woworuntu arrived in the US hoping to start a new career in the hotel industry. Instead, she found she had been trafficked into a world of prostitution and sexual slavery, forced drug-taking and violence....
U.S. Cracks Down on Products Made by Slave Labor, but Hurdles Remain
Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking Director Melysa Sperber is featured on the latest PBS Newshour Shortwave podcast. She speaks closing of a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930 that allowed goods made by forced or child labor to enter the United States. By P.J. Tobia Published...
One Step Closer to Stopping the Import of Goods made with Forced Labour
By David Abramowitz, Humanity United Published on February 28, 2016 in the Thomson Reuters Foundation News Blog The International Labor Organization estimates that nearly 21 million people around the world are subject to forced labour. That astounding number begs the question:...
Address the Root Causes of the Migrant Crisis
In this letter to the editor of The Washington Post, Director of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking Melysa Sperber urges U.S. policymakers to address the violence, corruption, poverty and climate of impunity at the heart of the migrant crisis. It is tragic that...
Human Trafficking Survivor: ‘We Need Jobs, Not Pity’
By Evelyn Chumbow Published on February 2, 2016 in CNN Freedom Project Evelyn Chumbow is an anti-trafficking survivor activist and member of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. She recently received a Bachelor of Science degree in Homeland Security from University of...
Great Step, but Only First, for Trafficking Survivor Empowerment
By Bukola Oriola Published on January 29, 2016 in The Hill Blog During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, it’s not enough to just talk about how to prevent modern slavery from happening. We must also focus on how to help victims and survivors of this...
Know Signs of Labor Trafficking
By Harold D'Souza Published on January 27, 2016 in Cincinnati Harold D’Souza is a Cincinnati resident and anti-trafficking advocate. It is hard to believe that the person serving you dinner, pumping gas or selling you a carton of milk in the local convenience store might be...
Verité Illuminates Labor Trafficking & Abuses in Malaysian Electronics
On October 23, Huffington Post published an important blog piece by Dan Viederman, CEO of Verité. Viederman describes scenarios of forced labor and modern slavery that are commonly found in multinational companies' supply chains. Indeed, "[a] recent Verité study found that one in three...