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Freedom Collaborative. Cambodia. In order to raise awareness of trafficking and forced labour through a team of dedicated journalists, theThomson Reuters Foundation held a training course for journalists – ‘Reporting on Migration and Trafficking’ – in Phnom Penh, Cambodia recently. Sponsored by the C&A Foundation, the course saw 11 journalists participate in a week of workshops, presentations and debate, run by Thomson Reuters …

Evening Standard. United Kingdom. A new campaign has launched in London to find victims of “hidden crimes” such as modern slavery. The Hidden Harms Project, which is being run in seven languages by charity Crimestoppers, aims to increase reporting of potential offences. The three-year initiative, run through radio and social media, aims to reach at least 100,000 Londoners per year and will …

ShropShire Star. United Kingdom. A recent parliamentary report on modern slavery concluded that the practice “pervades every community” in the UK, and warned the number of victims could be in the tens or even hundreds of thousands. Modern slavery was introduced as a single, specific offence under the Modern Slavery Act, which came into effect in March 2015. Since then, …

MunicipiosPuebla. México. En dos operativos distintos, elementos del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) rescataron a 170 migrantes centroamericanos. Mientras en el municipio de Texmelucan localizaron a 64 personas, en los límites de Amozoc y Tepeaca lograron detener a dos polleros que viajaban con 106 indocumentados. Tras los operativos, donde también participaron elementos de la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Estado, …

El Noticiero Digital. Reino Unido. La Policía británica, así como varias ONG, han alertado de que se ha registrado un repunte del 36 por ciento de los posibles casos de esclavitud moderna en Reino Unido, lo que supone un aumento de más de un tercio respecto al año anterior. La Agencia Nacional Contra el Crimen (NCA, según sus siglas en …

Menafm. Fashion shouldn’t cost lives and it shouldn’t cost us our planet. Yet this is what is happening today . Globalization, fast fashion, economies of scale, social media and offshore production have created a perfect storm for cheap, easy and abundant fashion consumption. And there are few signs of it slowing down: clothing production has nearly doubled in the last …

JDSUPRA. United States. Modern slavery compliance is becoming a bigger focus at U.S.-based and other multinationals. Compliance continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Over the last several months, there have been a number of important compliance and disclosure developments, some of which require action now, and others which will play out over a longer time frame. For example, a …

Filonews. Estados Unidos. Otra semana, otra historia de explotación laboral en la industria de los videojuegos. Esta vez fueron empleados y ex-empleados de Epic Games, el estudio responsable del fenómeno Fortnite, los que confiaron al portal Polygon sus historias de hostilidad, crueldad, tristeza e indignación que la empresa, a su manera, confirmó. Más de una docena de trabajadores hablaron con el portal durante los últimos meses y confirmaron …

Libano. Amnistía Internacional (AI) denunció este miércoles que más de 250.000 migrantes que se emplean en el trabajo doméstico en Líbano sufren jornadas de 14 o 16 horas sin descanso, reducciones de sueldo arbitrarias, restricciones en su libertad de movimiento, insultos, encierros, mala alimentación, denegación de asistencia médica, abusos y, en los peores casos, son víctimas de trata con fines …

Probono. Australia Despite nearly 40 per cent of Australian clothing companies cleaning up their ethical act from the year before, only 5 per cent pay their factory workers a living wage, an annual report has revealed. Baptist World Aid Australia’s 2019 Ethical Fashion Report, released on Wednesday, provides a comprehensive look into 130 clothing companies graded from A+ to F …