A report by the Human Trafficking institute found that 59% of online sex trafficking recruitment in 2020 took place on Facebook. The report is entitled 'Federal Human Trafficking Report.' More...
A report by the Human Trafficking institute found that 59% of online sex trafficking recruitment in 2020 took place on Facebook. The report is entitled 'Federal Human Trafficking Report.' More...
Police in Bangladesh have arrested seven slave traffickers who used the TikTok app to lure young women and girls before selling them as slaves in India. The women and girls are poor. They were promised work in India, only to be sold as slaves. A video emerged showing one of the women being tortured. More...
June 9, 2021. The ILO and UNICEF have compiled a report on child labor. The Society has been informed about its contents as it has been released to the media. However, publication of the report is embargoed until June 9, 2021 at 5.30 pm Geneva time. The headquarters of the ILO are in Geneva. More...
May 30, 2021. The government of the dictator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, usually referred to as North Korea, has embarked on state-sanctioned
forced child labor in its mines. This is the first time in decades that a regime has officially acknowledged a state-sanctioned policy of forced
child labor. All the minors are orphans.
The regime already has a policy of forced labor of adults in its coalmines. The conditions are horrendous. The victims are forced to work
under harsh overseers in unsafe conditions and with little food.
Meanwhile, the dictator, Kim Jong-un, is a modern Pharaoh, with multiple palaces and fast cars and dines on caviar and French wines.
The regime is a murderous regime with a network of gulag camps (forced labor camps) across the county. More...
May 24, 2021. Kailash Satyarthi warned that at least 140 million more children have been pushed into extreme poverty as a result of the pandemic,
and the number of children exploited in child labor is expected to increase for the first time in decades..
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May 24, 2021. The International Coca Initiative has revised its definitions. While the Initiative is a major step by global chocolate and cocoa manufacturers, the Society points out that the scheme only covers 25% of the production of cacao beans in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and the Republic of Ghana, who together export 55% of the world's cacao beans. More...
May 18, 1904: International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic 1904. It came into force on July 18, 1905. It was subsequently amended by a Protocol in 1949. More...
May 4, 2021. Burgess Owens (R) Utah, and Virginia Foxx (R) North Carolina have sent a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the Federal Government’s efforts to combat child trafficking. More...
May 14, 1859: Death of Joseph Sturge (English abolitionist) More...