Scam compound buildings in Myanmar can be seen in this picture taken from Mae Sot, Thailand in Feb. 2025.
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Cuts to US foreign aid are hurting efforts to tackle human trafficking at scam compounds. Americans may pay the price
6-year-old Amina sets up wet leather to dry under the sunlight in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 9, 2025, as she helps support her family. (Photo by Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Guest essay: To be anti-trafficking requires support for education rights
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<p>“Samara” was 19 when an online conversation led her into the nightmare of human trafficking. Her story is a common one for many Romanian nationals, who are among the most trafficked EU citizens, primarily for sexual exploitation. In 2024, Romania passed several new laws aimed at cracking down on traffickers and protecting victims, marking a critical step forward. Samara’s trafficker is now behind bars — but the fight to end trafficking is still far from over.</p>
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<p>When Vi Do was just 15, he left his rice farm in a remote rural area of Vietnam and arrived in the capital Hanoi to find work as a shoe shine boy, living on the streets. It’s the path thousands of children take every year to try to make money for their families back home - but it often leaves them vulnerable to human trafficking. An Australian teacher found Vi and helped him get back into school — and later formed Blue Dragon Children's Foundation. Twenty years later, Vi is now co-CEO of the foundation, where he tries to help other street kids get back into education and find a better future.</p>
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Children in Brazil are climbing 70-foot-high trees so you can eat açaí berries
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Photographer Lisa Kristine is shining a light on child labor
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Finding a brighter future for Tanzania’s child domestic workers
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks during an event honoring the 2023 Trafficking in Persons Heroes at the Harry S. Truman department headquarters on June 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. To mark the release of the 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report), the department honored "individuals from diverse stakeholder communities around the world whose tireless efforts have made a lasting impact on the fight against trafficking." (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Opinion: Rethinking human trafficking
Women are among the people most affected by modern slavery, says Nasreen Sheikh, who works to inform them of their rights.
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As a child, she stitched clothes in a sweatshop. Now she sees modern slavery everywhere
The US Department of Labor seal is seen on a podium in Washington, DC, in 2019.
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Opinion: Is protecting children from labor exploitation a distant dream?
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In-Depth Documentaries

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India’s silk slaves are forced to work to pay off debts
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Begging for Change: Full documentary
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Video Stolen son: The child traffickers preying on the Rohingya 22:29

Research & Reports

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Boys take part in an awareness rally to mark World Day Against Child Labour, in Chennai, India on June 12, 2022.
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Opinion: Five reasons I’m optimistic despite grim new statistics on forced labor
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Our device-driven lives depend more than ever on tragedy in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Bukeni Waruzi is executive director of Free the Slaves, a founding organization of the modern anti-slavery movement.
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Aligning anti-trafficking programs with UN Sustainable Development Goals
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On Ghana’s Lake Volta, child slavery is in plain sight
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Profit orphanages: The human rights crisis that’s flying under the radar
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This general view from "The Peak" shows Hong Kong's latest addition to its skyline, the newly completed 88-storey Two IFC building (C), towering above the city, 12 July 2003. Two IFC, which is the third tallest building in the world behind the Sears Tower in Chicago and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, is expected to open for business in a month. AFP PHOTO/Richard A. BROOKS (Photo credit should read RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP/Getty Images)
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#MyFreedomDay

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Take a closer look at the signs of modern slavery