The global fight against people smuggling and human trafficking will be more effective when governments and businesses combine their powers, continuing the momentum of the Government Business Forum at the Bali Process, says Minister of Immigration Iain Lees-Galloway. Minister Lees-Galloway highlighted the need for government and business to work together at the Seventh Bali Process on [...]
This young girl at a potato farm is one of hundreds of typical child slaves. (Martin Jay /TRTWorld) Mohamed is only 11 years old and considers himself lucky. Unlike hundreds of Syrian refugee kids who are reduced to working on farms in the east of Lebanon in the Bekaa picking potatoes under the [...]
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi poses for a photo at a workshop about human trafficking and modern slavery run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in New Delhi, India, March 5, 2018. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Kieran Guilbert The refugee crisis has exacerbated human trafficking and modern slavery with global action needed to tackle the criminal gangs [...]
Women and their children wait to receive relief food supplies near the Kakuma Refugee Camp, northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi, August 8, 2011. Aid agencies and the Kenyan government set up a new settlement for refugees about 30 kilometers away, in the northwestern town of Kalobeyei, last year. Photo: Reuters Uganda must investigate [...]
Migrant workers sort fish and seafood at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand. Photo: Reuters Thai fishing boat owners who trap workers on board ships and withhold wages often do not realize that is modern slavery, so authorities must ramp up their policing efforts, advocates say. Research shows many fishing operators are [...]
