EXPERT VIEWS-UK truck deaths cast spotlight on global trade in humansThe deaths have sparked debate about Britain's approach to tackling smugglers and traffickers |
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UK truck deaths reignite calls to tackle nail bar slaveryIt is well documented that some Vietnamese - lured to Europe by promises of lucrative jobs - end up exploited in illegal cannabis farms and cheap nail bars |
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Abused Bangladeshi housemaids struggle for justice at homeMany women do not receive their full salaries, are physically abused, deprived of food and sexually abused |
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Senegal launches online database to track the traffickersThe 'Systraite' system will collect information on victims, convictions, traffickers and more |
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Focused look at human trafficking could reveal better data, top US official saysAbout 25 million people are estimated to be victims of forced labor, many working in factories or on building sites, farms and fishing boats |
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After Baghdadi death, Nobel laureate Nadia Murad asks: What about the rest?'How about those that raped us? They sold us, they still have our girls, they still have our children - about 300,000 Yazidis still missing, we don't know anything about them' |
'Global ring' involved in smuggling 39 found dead in UK truck, court toldMany of the dead appear to have come from Vietnam's northern rice-growing areas of Nghe An and Ha Tinh, two of its poorest provinces |
Postcards from a poisoned coast: Vietnam's people-smuggling heartlandPoor job prospects, encouragement by authorities, smuggling gangs, and environmental disaster are all local factors behind the wave of migrants |
'Grass' or 'VIP'? How rural Vietnamese make treacherous journey to EuropeMany trafficked Vietnamese end up working in illegal cannabis farms in Britain but 'grass' in this case is a slang word used in Vietnam to describe something as dirt cheap |
OPINION: Who is really responsible for the Essex truck deaths?It should be obvious that only through safe routes of regular migration people can seek a better future without risking their lives |
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