Brazil's anti-slavery wins bring new test: how to compensate victims

Promised a job that would support her impoverished family, 17-year-old Veasna Sreypov was instead cheated and sold into servitude

Big on ideas, short on cash: Modern slavery fund seeks to transform global fight

Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) says the world is at a tipping point in the drive to end human trafficking

Europe's rights court orders UK to compensate human trafficking victims

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) says Britain violated rights of two Vietnamese trafficking victims who were jailed for drug offences

Stung by COVID-19, Indian businesses rethink worker benefits

Bank accounts, housing and fixed wages among new benefits being offered to some of India's vast army of informal workers

Saudi woman convicted of murdering Bangladeshi maid in rare verdict

Abiron Begum, 40, was killed some two years after she went to the Gulf state in search of better paid work

H&M factory in India set to rehire hundreds of fired garment workers

More than 1,250 workers will be re-employed by Gokaldas Exports Ltd in rare victory for labour unions

Garment workers' leader heads up protests against Myanmar coup

Silenced for a year by COVID-19 restrictions, garment workers find voice in trade union leader after military ousts government

In South Sudan, a former child soldier fights to rebuild her life

Sara, who was abducted at age 12, spent two years as a fighter for one of the country's armed groups

Pandemic woes seen swelling global ranks of child soldiers

As world marks Red Hand Day, United Nations warns coronavirus could fuel child recruitment by armed groups

FACTBOX-Ten facts about child soldiers around the world

Coronavirus pandemic feared driving more children into armed groups as world marks Red Hand Day

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U.S. House revives bill to ban goods from China's Xinjiang

The bill authorizes the U.S. president to sanction anyone responsible for labor trafficking of Uighurs in Xinjiang, a leading producer of cotton

Ivory Coast arrests three suspected child traffickers in cocoa belt

Ivory Coast police have arrested three suspected child traffickers in the Soubre, the centre of its cocoa-growing region

Germany to fine companies whose suppliers abuse rights

While details of fines have not yet been settled they could be up to 10% of turnover for companies that do not meet human rights and environmental standards

'We're dying': Audio calls of migrants trapped in truck prompt U.S. investigation

ICE's investigative unit are looking into 911 calls that may indicate human trafficking, including one from a male caller breathing heavily as someone shouted "help" in Spanish

OPINION: How to stop violence against women in Kurdistan

COVID-19 is spurring child marriage and domestic violence. Governments and NGOs must empower women legally and financially, to take control of their own lives

OPINION: Female child soldiers often go unseen but must not be forgotten

As world marks Red Hand Day, more attention must be paid to girls recruited by armed groups