Members of a Shia Muslim breakaway religious movement were arrested this week in Cheshire, England, on suspicion of human trafficking, forced marriage, modern slavery, and sexual assault.
A Green Party councillor has reportedly been arrested in Lancashire on suspicion of modern slavery and assault offences.
In a major u-turn, the left-wing Labour Party government in Britain has reversed course and will prohibit the state-owned green energy project from using solar panels tied to Chinese slave labour.
Britain’s radical green agenda has been accused of being “stained with blood” as leftist Labour MPs voted down a bill to ban the government from buying solar panels made by slaves.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for increased international effort to combat human trafficking networks engaging in child sex slavery and other forms of human bondage during her address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Two Iraqis accused of being members of the Islamic State group and keeping two young Yazidi girls as slaves.
A 44-year-old Somali-Dane has been indicted by a Danish court for selling his 12-year-old daughter into sexual slavery in Kenya and Somalia and forcibly circumcising her.
Over half of boat migrants referred to the programme for victims of modern slavery — a potential “loophole” to avoid deportation — hail from Albania, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed.
Helsinki police have arrested a foreign national operating a beauty company who is accused of engaging in human trafficking.
Plans aimed at protecting Britain’s borders could put human rights at risk, former Prime Minister Theresa May has warned.
International sex trafficker Jagpal Singh starred in a BBC reality show in which “real people” were invited to give “real opinions” on the news of the day.
The West should apologise for its history before taking aim at the continuing human rights abuses in Qatar, the president of FIFA said.
The European Union has now formally proposed a ban on all goods made with forced labour from being sold within the bloc, a move that is seen as being aimed at China’s abuse of minorities.
The United Kingdom has seen the highest spike in the number of people allegedly victimised by modern slavery since statistics began, official data has revealed.
Activists need to turn their attention away from attacking old statues and start fighting modern slavery, an ex-police officer has said.
A doctor has now been charged over an alleged plot by a Nigerian senator to harvest the organs of a migrant in the UK.
The former head of a French NGO has been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of trafficking in human beings.
The UK is set to ban the NHS from purchasing supplies and medical equipment from the concentration camp Chinese region of Xinjiang.
A French government official has accused the UK of operating an economic model in which illegal migrants are entered into “modern slavery”.
“Hundreds” of failed asylum seekers could see their deportation decisions reversed after a Vietnamese migrant won a case against the government’s decision to deny her refugee status after she was trafficked into the country for forced labour in a cannabis farm and as a prostitute.
Five German retailers have been accused of profiting off slave labour in the concentration camp region of Xinjiang by the ECCHR on Monday.
The Taliban terror group’s reconquering of Kabul on Sunday broke the “shackles” of a “cultural enslavement” Afghanistan endured since the U.S. invaded the country in 2001, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a hardline Islamist, argued on Monday.
Imports from the Chinese slave labour region of Xinjiang have more than doubled to the European Union since the beginning of the year.
A German-Tunisian Islamic State widow has been sentenced to just four years in prison after being convicted of enslaving two Yazidi women while living in the former caliphate.
France is investgating four fashion companies for the alleged use of slave labour in the Xinjiang region of China.
Three members of a people trafficking ring that shipped hundreds of Polish migrants to the UK and forced them into slavery have been convicted.
EU leaders reportedly blocked attempts from the UlS., Britain, and Canada to call out the China for the use of slave labour in Xinjiang.
French populist party leader Marine Le Pen denounced the activities of migrant taxi NGOs, linking them to people trafficking and “modern slavery”.
The Home Office has reported more than 10,000 suspected cases of modern slavery in the UK last year, though the effects of lockdown mean that the figure could be even higher.
The Black Lives Matter supporting fast-fashion giant Boohoo and its suppliers are facing an import ban from the United States over allegations that the British-based company employs slave labour.
A record number of human trafficking victims sought help from a Finland Centre tackling the issue in 2020.
The European Union will not require the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to ban the use of forced labour before ratifying the proposed €120 billion investment pact with the authoritarian regime, France’s junior minister for trade said on Tuesday. The deal
The British government sent nearly £150 million to firms connected to the concentration camp regime in the Chinese region of Xinjiang for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus outbreak in the UK.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently considering a short-term cut to foreign aid spending amidst huge budgetary shortfalls due to the economic damage caused by the Chinese coronavirus and the ensuing lockdown restrictions. The government is drafting plans to decrease
Illegal boat migrants are reportedly making ‘pacts’ with human trafficking networks to serve as slave labourers in order to pay off the fees charged for crossing the English Channel from France.
A Swedish construction firm has been accused of exploiting foreign workers, with one union representative accusing the company of engaging in modern slavery-like practices. A lawsuit has been brought against the concrete firm Formbetong by the Swedish building workers’ union
The former leader of the Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, said that the Chinese coronavirus exposed the scourge of modern-day slavery in the Labour Party stronghold of Leicester and other locations throughout the United Kingdom.
A Syrian father and son have been convicted by a German court for smuggling a teen girl into Germany and forcing her to serve as a slave, with the son raping her at least four times.
A migrant man has been given an 11-year sentence for human trafficking and keeping 13 people, including a 12-year-old, as slaves in New Zealand.
Two brothers, Ilcic (19) and Ioan (24) Dumitru, have been jailed on modern sex slavery charges after they forced a Romanian woman to have sex with up to 15 men per day, even after she became pregnant.
