Exploitation

Fifty facts on how trafficking really works, and what stops it. A short video on who profits when someone is enslaved. And…

A new investigation into StarKist’s Pacific albacore supply chain alleges forced labor conditions among Indonesian migrant fishers working aboard Taiwanese vessels. The findings expose a wider problem in the global seafood economy, where the people catching food consumed thousands of miles away can spend months beyond the reach of ordinary labor protections.

A new Amnesty International investigation alleges forced labor, killings and mineral trafficking at M23-controlled mines in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The findings raise urgent questions about where the critical minerals inside modern technology come from, and whether global supply chains can genuinely distinguish responsible production from exploitation.

A new agreement between Europol and the European Labour Authority reflects a growing European effort to identify human trafficking where it can be hardest to see: inside ordinary workplaces.

UK changes to Skilled Worker visa rules will give some formally recognized modern slavery victims greater freedom to leave exploitative employers, but the reform also raises a wider question about how employer-tied visas can create conditions in which immigration status itself becomes a tool of control.

UN investigators say migrant detention in Libya has evolved into a profit-driven system in which people can be imprisoned, exploited for labor, extorted for ransom and returned to trafficking networks.

Scam compound human trafficking is a layered exploitation system in which people are forced to conduct online fraud while others are financially deceived. Recent investigations also show that women may be forced into sexual exploitation and, in some operations, used as “rewards” for workers who meet fraud targets.

A Reuters investigation into a compound leased by a casino group in O’Smach shows how buildings, land and protection let Cambodia’s scam centers keep forcing trafficked people into online fraud.

A clear glossary of the key terms behind ecocide, environmental destruction, forced labor, human trafficking, illegal extraction and the systems that connect harm to people with harm to nature.

A clear, evidence-led glossary explaining the key terms behind human trafficking, modern slavery, forced labor, exploitation, digital slavery, ecocide and prevention.

A new generation of scam centers across Southeast Asia is exposing how human trafficking has moved into the digital economy, with people recruited through fake jobs, trapped in guarded compounds and forced to carry out online fraud against victims around the world.

Behind many crypto scams is a hidden second victim: the trafficked worker forced to carry them out from inside a locked compound.