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How people escape modern-day slavery in Pakistan

Millions of people in Pakistan are trapped at brick kilns paying off debts that mysteriously keep g…

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How millions are trapped in modern-day slavery at brick kilns in Pakistan

Families in Pakistan work dangerous jobs at brick kilns to pay off loans they take out from kiln ow…

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Modern slavery: 50 million — mostly women, children, and migrants — still trapped in forced labour and marriages, UN asserts

If you had to make everyone trapped in state-imposed forced labour in a line, you’d sadly notice th…

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Millions are trapped in 'modern-day slavery' at brick kilns in Pakistan. Here's how you can help.

Organizations such as Green Bricks Foundation are working to provide resources for families stuck i…

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50 million people worldwide in modern slavery: ILO

According to the latest report by the UN agency titled, 'Global Estimates of Modern Slavery', 28…

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Man pleads guilty to exploiting a worker who lived in a garden shed for 40 years with no light or heating, UK authority says

Officers investigating Peter Swailes, 56, said his dog had better living quarters than the vulnerab…

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The first self-proclaimed drag queen and queer activist in the US was born into slavery

William Dorsey Swann hosted secret drag balls, which became legendary among the Black working class…

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New figures show the UK government is failing modern slavery victims, say campaigners

Anti-modern slavery campaigners say the Home Office is failing victims of modern slavery as data sh…

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A Saudi prince has been accused of modern-day slavery by maids in his apartment outside Paris

French prosecutors have launched a human trafficking investigation into the allegations against the…

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Results: Oregon Measure 112: Voters decided to remove the state constitution's language addressing slavery in prisons

Supporters argued that the slavery exception heavily impacted marginalized communities. Oregon's De…

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Fast-fashion giant Boohoo unscathed by COVID-19 crisis and modern slavery allegations as sales surge in 2020, analysts say

2020 was a tumultuous year for fast-fashion giant Boohoo but analysts say it's come out of the othe…

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Bank of England apologises for past links to slavery

About 46,000 people were paid a total of 20 million pounds - the equivalent of 40 percent of all an…

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William Jackson Harper and Joel Edgerton on confronting the trauma of slavery in 'The Underground Railroad'

William Jackson Harper and Joel Edgerton spoke to Insider about their new limited Amazon series, "T…

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'Modern-day slavery': Meet the migrants that clean London by night

They quickly filled up work permit quotas for the hospitality and cleaning industries. These migran…

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1 in 10 North Koreans are forced into modern day slavery, human-rights study estimates

The jump in numbers is largely due to new data available through a collaboration with the UN's Inte…

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Shameful! India is the ‘World’s Slave Capital’

To us in this day and age, it is more like an issue from a bygone era. Or that it only exists in co…

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14 House GOP members just revealed themselves as modern segregationists

The 14 House GOP members who voted against making Juneteenth a holiday should be treated as pariahs.

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Here's Where Modern-Day Slavery Is The Most Prevalent

Modern-day slavery can take the form of human trafficking, forced labour, debt bondage, forced or s…

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