EXCLUSIVE-Expose reveals child labour in Cambodian brick kilns despite crackdown

Poverty fuelled partly by climate change has pushed countless Cambodian families - often rural farmers - into the country's booming brick industry

Indian police use facial recognition app to reunite families with lost children

Tens of thousands of children go missing every year in India and many are trafficked to work in eateries, handicraft industries, brick kilns, factories or into begging and brothels

U.S. woman accuses Mexican church of trafficking, abuse in lawsuit

The woman said in a lawsuit that she was born into a family of church members who groomed her from childhood to become a sexual slave to its leaders

Radio show in small Indian town gives rare voice to child workers

A charity launched the weekly radio show on child workers to give children a medium to express themselves and to give the town a lesson on empathy and child labour laws

Slavery not a crime for almost half the countries in the world - study

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery

Migrants raped and trafficked as U.S. and Mexico tighten borders, charity says

Mexico has ramped up efforts to stop migrants reaching the U.S. border under pressure from President Donald Trump who threatened to put import tariffs on its goods

Nepal seeks to cut migrant deaths with safety training

About 1,000 out of an estimated 4 million Nepali migrants die abroad each year while working domestics and in construction

Indian couple gets jail in Singapore's first labour trafficking conviction

The two Indian nationals were given a prison term of five years and six months each after they were found guilty of exploiting three Bangladeshi women they recruited to dance at nightclubs

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Venezuela man charged with sexual slavery after holding woman captive for 31 yrs

The 56 old man lived for years with another woman and his daughter in a building across the street

Dozens of Rohingya refugees missing, 15 confirmed dead after boat capsizes

Lured by traffickers, many people attempt perilous voyage to Malaysia on overcrowded, rickety vessels

Justice Department anti-human trafficking grants prompt whistleblower complaint

Two nonprofits were originally on the list of recommended grant winners after receiving high marks from outside contractors hired to review applications but were then replaced