Photo Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Forget jargon-filled monologues, raids to rescue enslaved Indian children inject drama into a documentary about Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who hopes the film will inspire viewers to play a part in the global fight to eradicate modern slavery. “Kailash”, which premiered last week at the U.S.-based Sundance [...]
Before March 2015, when the Associated Press exposed appalling human rights abuses aboard Thai fishing boats, few Americans gave much thought to the evils that might lurk behind their fried calamari and tilapia fillets. The AP article, “Slaves May Have Caught the Fish You Bought,” detailed how Burmese migrants were lured with the promise of decent [...]
Officials at a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Georgia locked an immigrant detainee in solitary confinement last November as punishment for encouraging fellow detainees to stop working in a labor program that ICE says is strictly voluntary. Shoaib Ahmed, a 24-year-old who immigrated to America to escape political persecution in [...]
Human Trafficking in Rohingya Refugee Camps In light of the ‘repatriation agreement’ signed between Myanmar and Bangladesh, the 620,000 recent Rohingya refugees who have been living in Cox’s Bazar for the past few months will be allowed to return to the Northern Rakhine state or ‘to a safe and secure place nearest to it’ of [...]
