Money or liberty? No win for carers, cleaners in coronavirus crisis

Millions of domestic staff around the world face grim choices - be locked in with their employers or lose work and wages

Thai clothing factory compensates exploited migrant workers

The Thai supplier of US-based outdoor clothing brand Patagonia has reimbursed Burmese migrant workers over $100,000

Surrogate mothers from Cambodia given suspended jail terms in landmark case

The surrogates were ordered to raise the children or be sentenced to prison

Left jobless by pandemic, Colombia's informal workers to get government aid

Colombian workers like maids and cleaners will get a small cash payment from the government

India's poor live on promises in coronavirus

No papers, no safety net: the informal army of Indian workers worst hit by COVID-19 lockdown

Coronavirus protections lacking for Mexican farmworkers feeding the U.S.

Farmworkers both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border lack protective gear and run a major risk of illness, advocates said

UK coronavirus lockdown raises fears of rise in child drug mules

Charities are bracing for a surge in domestic violence under lockdown, which makes young people vulnerable to trafficking

Suspected slavery surges in UK with a record 10,000 reports

With numbers up 52%, anti-slavery groups called for more action to protect the vulnerable

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Sex workers stranded in Germany as coronavirus shuts brothels

Thousands of foreign prostitutes have been made homeless following closure of brothels due to the coronavirus outbreak

OPINION: We need to support child victims of trafficking amid coronavirus

The coronavirus crisis highlights the harmful effect of lockdown on child victims of trafficking in Britain

OPINION: Five years after the UK Modern Slavery Act, it’s time to ramp it up

If we want to end slavery in Britain, we need to make sure anyone who could be exploited has options and access to justice and the law