--- title: "What We’re Watching: Fifty Facts, the Profit Chain, and a Tuna Supply Chain" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/what-were-watching-october-2026/ author: "NOT FOR SALE" published: 2026-10-02 topic: "Human Trafficking" publisher: "Not For Sale" --- # What We’re Watching: Fifty Facts, the Profit Chain, and a Tuna Supply Chain Fifty facts on how trafficking really works, and what stops it. A short video on who profits when someone is enslaved. And… By NOT FOR SALE · October 2, 2026 · Human Trafficking Fifty facts on how trafficking really works, and what stops it. A short video on who profits when someone is enslaved. And an investigation into the tuna supply chain, where the crews catching the fish can spend months beyond the reach of anyone who could help. Two to read. One to watch. [![Collage: a young woman with a backpack, a garment factory floor and a phone.](https://wearenotforsale.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/nfs-human-trafficking-50-facts-hero-1536x864.webp)](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/human-trafficking-facts/) Human Trafficking · October 2, 2026 ## (50 Essential Facts About Human Trafficking: How It Happens and What Helps Stop It)(https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/human-trafficking-facts/) From how people are recruited and controlled to what the evidence really shows, and what survivors say works to stop it. Keep this one open in a tab. It’s the piece to send anyone who asks what trafficking really looks like. [Read the 50 facts →](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/human-trafficking-facts/) > View this post on Instagram > > [A post shared by Not For Sale (@nfs)](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4-hiYR_Dd/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) Ecocide · October 2026 ## (Someone profits from every person enslaved)(https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4-hiYR_Dd/) Follow the money, from the worker with no choice up through the trafficker, the mine or logging boss, the buyer and the global market. Everyone above the bottom rung takes a cut. Forced labor generates $236 billion in illegal profits every year, and the forests, rivers and land pay for it too. First they take the person. Then they take the planet. [Watch the video →](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4-hiYR_Dd/) [![A tuna catch on the deck of a fishing vessel.](https://wearenotforsale.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/tuna.webp)](https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/forced-labor-tuna-supply-chain-starkist/) Ecocide · September 21, 2026 ## (Forced Labor in Tuna Supply Chains: What the StarKist Investigation Reveals)(https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/forced-labor-tuna-supply-chain-starkist/) By [Katie Wilde](https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/katie-wilde/), Contributing Writer A new investigation into StarKist’s Pacific albacore supply chain alleges forced labor among Indonesian migrant fishers aboard Taiwanese vessels. The findings point to a wider problem: the people who catch the fish we eat can spend months at sea, beyond the reach of ordinary labor protections. [Read the investigation →](https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/forced-labor-tuna-supply-chain-starkist/)