Do you care about who grows your food - and in what conditions these farm laborers work? A new movie called Food Chains releases in the U.S. on Friday. The documentary, produced by actress Eva Longoria and narrated by Oscar…
Professor Bernard Freamon teaches courses on modern-day slavery and human trafficking at Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey and also specializes in Islamic Legal History. He is currently writing a book, “Islam, Slavery and Empire in the…
By Ivan Watson Jana was a 19-year-old in her final year of high school, with dreams of becoming a doctor. Then, ISIS came to her village last August. She described to me in chilling detail, how the jihadis first demanded…
They work on U.S. construction sites and farms, in restaurants and hotels, even in homes. Foreign workers, lured by false promises of good jobs in America, soon find themselves enslaved in plain sight as victims of labor trafficking, according to…
By John D. Sutter Imagine being rescued from modern slavery, only to be charged with a crime. That's the apparent reality in Mauritania, the country with the world's highest incidence of modern slavery. Located in West Africa, on the edge…
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is awarded to India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people's rights, including the right to education. Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian…
By Dan Viederman, CEO Verité If you are reading this on a tablet, smart phone or computer monitor, then you may be holding a product of forced labor. Verité's two-year study of labor conditions in electronics manufacturing in Malaysia has…
By Leif Coorlim, CNN A U.S. national campaign is under way to raise more than a million dollars in 24 hours. The Everyone’s Kids, Everyone Gives campaign is working to raise $1 million for more than 100 non-profit organizations united…
Cultural preference for boys in parts of India results in some of the largest imbalances between males and females in the world. And that creates a demand for brides that human traffickers are willing to meet. Film maker Carl Gierstorfer…
By Nina Smith Editor’s Note: Nina Smith is the founding CEO of GoodWeave International, a California-based non-profit organization that works to stop child labor in the carpet industry. In a small village in central Afghanistan, 13-year-old Basma is about to…