EXCLUSIVE-Mexico mulls human trafficking overhaul that may protect sex workers

The draft includes plans to amend the law to differentiate trafficking from exploitation, as well as improving victim protection and training for public servants

Uighur activist calls for action to stop China spying on ethnic minorities

More than one million Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in massive complexes built in China's northwest Xinjiang region since 2017, according to UN

Built to scale? Growing pains hit Cambodia's businesses for good

Businesses with a social purpose across Southeast Asia struggle to juggle more money and staff with their ideals of improving the lives of vulnerable communities

Commonwealth leaders urged to pass laws protecting workers from slavery

About two billion people - more than 60% of the world's workforce - are in informal work, leaving them vulnerable to being underpaid, overworked and treated like slaves

Mobile theatres to screen child slavery film in rural India

Traffickers target people in rural villages – largely poor, women and children – luring them to cities with the promise of good jobs but then selling them into modern day slavery

Singapore tackles 'pop up' sex but little help seen for victims

The government has announced tougher sentences in a bid to stamp out a trend for temporary apartment brothels, most staffed by women lured from poorer parts of Asia

Warning over Cambodia's garment workers as EU tariff threat looms

Workers who lose their jobs could end up in the entertainment or service industries and be exposed to sexual exploitation

INTERVIEW-Failure to tackle worker abuse breeds modern slavery, U.N. expert warns

Businesses are judged only on their efforts to curb extreme forms of labour exploitation, leaving more common abuses unchecked

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Norway fund shuns G4S over human rights violation risks

Many of G4S's employees in in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are migrant workers who paid recruitment fees to join the company

Vietnam says human traffickers must be strictly dealt with

Officials made the call after British police said they believe 39 people found dead in the back of a truck last week were all Vietnamese

Brazil police arrest man said to be one of world's most prolific human traffickers

Police said they had detained the prolific human trafficker Saifullah Al-Mamun in a joint operation with U.S. authorities

Thai court increases prison time for officials in Rohingya trafficking case

The officials were among dozens convicted over a trafficking ring which held Rohingya Muslim migrants hostage in jungle camps until their relatives paid for their release

OPINION: Why we are calling on the EU to make tackling abuses in supply chains mandatory

Voluntary corporate social responsibility initiatives have failed to protect people from modern slavery. It’s time to change it.