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Forced Labor: Unions and Activists are Redefining the Legal Boundaries

“Civil society and victims’ rights groups are finding new ways to hold accountable not only the perpetrators, but the beneficiaries of [forced labor], increasingly targeting supply...

Report: Migrant Fishers Accuse StarKist Suppliers of Using Forced Labor

Fishers said that they were forced to work in isolation at sea with their passports confiscated, while working under debt that compelled them to stay on the job regardless of condi...

North Korea rakes in as much as $800m from international forced labour to fund nuclear programme, report says

China and Russia employing most of North Korean labourers who send their remittances back to North Korea

New Tools for Combatting Forced Labor

Our colleague Aaron Halegua recently authored a two-part series on using legal advocacy tools in the US to combat forced labor outside the US. In this post, we explore the reverse...

US State Department report keeps China in Tier 3 over forced labour, trafficking concerns

Washington [US], October 17 (ANI): China has remained in Tier 3 category in the United States State Department's 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report, with the assessment citing wide...

From Central Asia To Russia For Work -- And Into The Military

Miras Taszharghanov traveled to the Russian city of Kursk on August 20 to work at a meat-processing plant, expecting to earn 90,000 rubles (about $1,000) a month.Instead, his famil...

Three bonded labourers rescued at Kalasthambadi  in Tiruvannamalai district

K. Viji, 25, his wife V. Sasikala, 23, and his brother K. Surya, 19, were forced to stay in small huts without proper access to drinking water and toilets and made to work for more...

Eight held for forcing farmhands into unpaid labor

Eight people have been arrested in an agricultural area of the southern Peloponnese region for allegedly forcing foreign farmhands to work for no pay until they paid off supposed d...

Three bonded labourers from Tiruvannamalai rescued in Karnataka

North Korea Slave Labor Trade

The participating states of the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT), have released a report today on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) violations and eva...

Man charged with human trafficking accused of deceiving staff recruited from overseas

One of the staff - who was recruited from India - is alleged to have been paid 36 hours per week despite working a minimum of 54 hours.

12-member U.P. family rescued from alleged bonded labour in Hyderabad

The family cooked and defecated inside rooms. They were allegedly forced to work seven days a week, faced physical and verbal abuse when unable to work or asked for wages.

Boy kidnapped at 14, sold for Rs 10,000, rescued after 4 years of forced labour

Boy kidnapped at 14, sold for Rs 10,000, rescued after 4 years of forced labour

Foreign workers underpaid at Helsinki school project linked to organised crime

A state-funded school renovation project in Helsinki has become the centre of a labour exploitation scandal involving unpaid wages, false employment records and a subcontractor all...