Picked by slaves: coffee crisis brews in Brazil

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation uncovers extensive slave labor running largely unchecked in Brazil's billion-dollar coffee industry despite years of efforts to clean up the sector - which could now put sales at risk

EXCLUSIVE-Thai electronics firm compensates exploited workers in rare award

Thousands of Burmese migrants will be compensated for excessive recruitment fees they were charged to secure jobs

Liverpool backs probe into Qatar migrant worker deaths

The Gulf state has come under scrutiny over what pressure groups describe as poor labour conditions as it prepares to host the 2022 soccer World Cup

Top hotels sued for 'industry-wide failures' to prevent U.S. sex trafficking

The filing marks the first time the hotel industry - which has long been accused of serving as a breeding ground for sexual exploitation of women and children - faced action as a group

FACTBOX-Grief and neglect: 10 factory disasters in South Asia

The blaze at a building in India's capital housing workers making school bags and toys was blamed by campaigners on a lack of workplace safety

Charity sues Kenya over treatment of trafficked Indian, Nepali women

The complaint says the women were made to stay in Kenya for months and testify against their traffickers, causing them psychological harm

Deadly factory fire highlights dangers facing India's migrant workers

"These are the migrant workers, who are regularly being pushed into the most hazardous and inhuman conditions of work," said a charity executive

Union leaders harassed in Brazil's textile factories - report

The research found widespread sexual harassment, as well as bullying and poor working conditions in local factories

Major brands found failing to help Thai seafood sector tackle slavery

Seafood suppliers are struggling with rising production costs as they seek to improve labour conditions and meet new anti-slavery laws

No more chains: Anti-slavery campaigns urged to stop relying on shock images

Images of trafficked people in chains, barbed wire or gags mean people are less likely to recognise the real signs of slavery, say researchers

Talk to me: counsellors help child workers win justice in India

Born into poverty, thousands of children - mostly boys - from the northern Indian state of Bihar have for years been trafficked to Jaipur to work as slaves

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Hopes in ashes for grieving Indian family after deadly factory fire

Like thousands of migrant workers swarming Delhi, the victims earned as little as $2 to $3 a day

Factory owner, manager arrested after Indian capital's deadliest fire in 20 years

Most industrial units do not hire regular employees and rely on day workers who come to Delhi from some of the most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken states of India