'These women may only get one chance to call for help': A Vietnamese anti-slavery crusader on life under lockdown

'When travel restrictions forced us to suspend rescue operations earlier this year, I was communicating with about 30 women in China. All of them were trapped and waiting for our help.'

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INTERVIEW-'We can't allow it': Mexico rights watchdog eyes sex trafficking

Murder rates and femicides are rising in Mexico, and more than 60,000 people have disappeared in the country


Lebanon's coronavirus lockdown leaves migrant women penniless and stranded

With no work, no income and no way of getting home, migrant workers struggle under lockdown


Holding trafficking victims to testify makes lives worse - U.S. group

Survivors detained to help prosecute their traffickers are at risk of losing custody of their children, jobs and essential services


Bangladesh unions urge government to act as garment workers lose jobs

The coronavirus crisis has cost at least 10,000 garment worker jobs, despite a government request to not sack workers


No work, new debt: virus creates perfect storm for slavery in India

Unable to work due to coronavirus, many Indians will take out loans to cope and risk falling into debt bondage


'Please, we are not animals': virus fears weigh on Cambodia's garment workers

Cambodia's garment factories remain open despite growing fears among workers about catching the virus


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Cotton Campaign says too early to lift Uzbek boycott

The coalition of human rights groups said only the end to forced labour would prompt a lift of the Uzbek cotton boycott


Qatar illegally expelled workers during coronavirus outbreak -Amnesty

Amnesty says workers were told they were being taken to be tested for the new coronavirus


Mexico's prostitutes end up homeless as coronavirus keeps clients at home, shuts hotels

Scared of contracting the coronavirus clients stay away, while the the hotels where many of sex workers lived and worked have been shuttered



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