23 October 2014, Huffington Post Imagine that you are offered a job overseas. It promises a salary you couldn’t dream of making at home. You’ve heard that the work is difficult and sometimes dangerous, and you’ll have to stay overseas for at least two years with only limited contact with your family. But you have […]
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13 September, The Guardian The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has called on the United Nations to investigate evidence that thousands of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, including those building a new Louvre museum and the world’s largest Guggenheim, are treated as slave labour. The confederation has called on the UN’s International Labour
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26 August 2014, Press.co.nz Migrant workers in New Zealand are at risk of working in slavery-like conditions, a Human Rights Commission diversity forum has heard. Organisers of the two-day forum, which finished in Christchurch yesterday, said the treatment of refugee and migrant workers in this country was a “top human rights priority”. In a discussion
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Millions of workers become slaves through the actions of unscrupulous labor brokers who charge exorbitant recruitment fees, either do not provide contracts or change contract terms, impose unreasonable deductions from promised wages and leave workers vulnerable to exploitation. For this reason, and with the support of a grant from Humanity United, ICCR has launched the
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ATEST: Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking (USA) Legislation to strengthen regulation of foreign labor recruiters is an essential element in the prevention of human trafficking and forced labor. Labor recruiters are often complicit or directly involved in the trafficking of workers, exploiting U.S. nonimmigrant visa programs. These recruiters, who operate in a climate of
14 June 2014, Las Vegas Review-Journal AMBON, Indonesia — He was too sick to eat, and Min Min Chan’s chest ached with each breath he sucked. It didn’t matter: The Thai captain warned him to get back on deck and start hauling fish onto the trawler or be tossed overboard. As a 17-year-old slave stuck
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