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Police ask communities to be aware of modern slavery after two investigations.

PETALING JAYA: The reported arrest of 171 Bangladeshi workers in Johor while marching to a police station to make a report is a breach of anti-trafficking laws, says Lawyers for Liberty (LFL).

JAKARTA -- The risk of child exploitation increases when children are displaced due to climate disasters, a senior official of UNICEF warned, as sever

The United Kingdom is seen by migrants as the promised land. Many are prepared to embark on a perilous journey to get there. But on arrival, they often find that life is not what they expected. Some even discover working conditions resembling slavery.

A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a child sexual exploitation lawsuit filed by the man who appeared naked as a 4-month-old on the cover of...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. The bill signing comes at a time when various places throughout the United States attempt to figure out how to best reckon with the country’s dark past. New York now follows California, which became the first state to form a reparations task force in 2020. Other states i...

In the last five decades, migrant workers have sent back a total of $296 billion in remittances.

The school district says it's placed two staff members on leave.

A migrant family who have been “fighting for months” for their 5-year-old son to attend school in New Zealand have been granted a student visa after the is

The court made the observation while hearing a plea by an Indian origin couple living in Canada challenging the March 14 notification issued by the Centre amending the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act to ban donor surrogacy by altering Form 2 under Rule 7 of the Surrogacy Rules, 2022.