EXCLUSIVE - UK found sending home dozens of slavery victims despite re-trafficking fears

Britain has sent home dozens of modern slaves to trafficking hotspots including Albania, Nigeria and Vietnam in recent years, raising concerns this puts people at risk of being re-trafficked

From Asia to Africa: Women trafficked to Kenya's Bollywood-style dance bars

Available data suggests scores of women and underage girls are victims of organised human trafficking from South Asia to Kenya

New taskforces to tackle 'missing wombs' scandal in rural India

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in three Indian states found that families were taking loans for unnecessary hysterectomies, forcing many into debt or slavery

Child labour cartoon? Brazil turns to TV to shed light on slavery

Prosecutors and judges are spending funds on documentaries and movies in a drive to spark debate, engage with more people and bring to life the reality of slave labour in Brazil

INTERVIEW - Too many modern slaves left in limbo, warns new UK anti-slavery chief

"Decisions are taking longer, there are more people in the system ... it is not good for survivors"

Migrants mistakenly held in Thai trafficking shelters - rights groups

Thai shelters are hosting a record number of potential trafficking victims but many are in fact smuggled migrants

INTERVIEW - Australia to help ASEAN firms tackle slavery in supply chains

Australia is home to an estimated 15,000 victims of modern slavery, according to the Global Slavery Index by Walk Free

Director wants Thai seafood slavery film to act as warning in Cambodia

Shot in Cambodia in the Khmer and Thai languages, 'Buoyancy' follows the story of a Cambodian boy who sets off to escape poverty but later discovers he has been sold and trapped at sea

India passes 'historic' minimum wage law amid activist worries

The "historic" bill would for the first time ensure about 500 million Indian workers received minimum pay

New York law aims to protect trafficking survivors by making addresses private

The confidentiality program, once limited to domestic violence victims, allows survivors to hide home, school and work addresses

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Sex-trafficking victim, who killed a man as a teen, set free in case championed by Kardashian, Rihanna

At the time of the murder, Cyntoia Brown, who was 16 and had run away from home, was living in a motel with a trafficker who peddled her for sex

West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began

The trafficking of women into sex work is one of the most widespread and abusive forms of modern-day slavery

OPINION: Pakistan’s future generations need protecting from bonded labour

Greater efforts need to be made to rehabilitate the victims of bonded labour into society in ways that allow them to recover from the cycle of abuse that they have endured