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Exploitation in focus

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12 February 2021

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  • Ivory Coast produces about 45% of the world’s cocoa

    Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit in US

    Chocolate companies are among the defendants named in a lawsuit brought by former child workers in Ivory Coast

15 December 2020

  • Michael Sheath

    How extreme porn has become a gateway drug into child abuse

    Mainstream pornography sites are ‘changing what is normal’, warns child abuse expert Michael Sheath

10 December 2020

  • A man looking at the Pornhub.com website logo on his phone

    Pornhub to ban unverified uploads after child abuse content claims

    Site – visited 100m times a day – to make changes following allegations it was hosting abusive and non-consensual material

3 December 2020

  • Bangladeshi garment workers protest to demand the wages they are owed in Dhaka in September.

    Garment workers going hungry as fallout from cancelled orders takes toll – report

    Workers are being forced into debt and facing food shortages as suppliers to western fashion brands cut wages and close factories
  • Little girl in protection mask using tablet

    ‘Deeply dark criminal activity’ drives rise in child abuse images online

    The use of webcams and live streaming has led to increased grooming by predators during the coronavirus pandemic
  • Little girl behind wet glass

    'These images are a crime scene … it's massive for us to find the child'

    The Internet Watch Foundation is seeing a growing number of tipoffs about child abuse. We talk to one analyst about her work

30 November 2020

  • Cristina Huddleston of Justice and Care

    Silent victims: the hidden Romanian women exploited in the UK sex trade

    Sex traffickers can make profits of over £1m a year per brothel – and Covid lockdowns have only made it easier for them to operate

26 November 2020

  • Construction workers at Al Janoub stadium during a media tour in Doha, Qatar. The stadium is the second among eight stadiums being built for the Fifa World Cup 2022 in Qatar.

    Qatar firms’ failure to pay leaves migrant workers destitute – report

    Despite government measures, thousands left struggling during Covid outbreak as companies withhold salaries and benefits, research shows

20 November 2020

  • PPE factory in Dandong in China

    UK sourced PPE from factories secretly using North Korean slave labour

  • How Chinese PPE factories supplying the UK may be using North Korean slave labour – video

20 October 2020

  • Cocoa beans drying in the sun, Ivory Coast

    Chocolate industry slammed for failure to crack down on child labour

    Children as young as five still exposed to hazardous work in countries including Ghana and Ivory Coast, report reveals

25 September 2020

  • Top Glove headquarters in Shah Alam, Malaysia.

    UK government sourcing NHS PPE from company repeatedly accused of forced labour

    Exclusive: Gloves from Malaysian company Top Glove found in NHS supply chain despite multiple allegations of worker exploitation

3 September 2020

  • The double blow of Covid and an oil price crash has led to hundreds of thousands of job losses in the UAE.

    ‘I am starving’: the migrant workers abandoned by Dubai employers

    With no salary or money to pay for flights home, many are trapped in desperate situations in crowded labour camps

1 September 2020

  • Construction of the Lusail stadium in Qatar, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums.

    New labour law ends Qatar’s exploitative kafala system

    Workers will be able switch jobs without employers’ permission, but rights groups say measure does not go far enough

31 August 2020

  • Undated video footage shows Uighur Muslim trainees working in a garment factory in Hotan, Xinjiang.

    Ban US cotton imports from Xinjiang, say human rights campaigners

    Petitions issued to US authorities cite ‘integral role of forced labour’ involving Uighur Muslims and other minority groups

7 August 2020

  • Members of a garment worker union protest in front of their factory, closed due to brands cancelling their orders during the pandemic.

    Covid led to ‘brutal crackdown’ on garment workers' rights, says report

    Brands including Primark, Zara and H&M accused of failing to protect workers at factories in Asian from ‘union busting’

6 August 2020

  • Workers wear face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus at the textile plant KP Textil in San Miguel Petapa, on 10 July.

    Covid outbreak exposes dire conditions at Guatemala factory making US brands

    More than 200 workers tested positive at garment factory supplying Amazon, Gap and American Eagle

5 August 2020

  • The law is currently used by overseas victims of slavery, trafficking and other abuses to claim redress from US corporations.

    US could become ‘safe haven’ for corporate abusers, activists warn

    Campaigners fear supreme court will reinterpret centuries-old law used by foreign victims of human rights violations

30 July 2020

  • The case being brought against the home secretary, Priti Patel, could have implications for thousands of others whose data has been accessed.

    British trafficking victim sues Priti Patel alleging abuse of personal data

    Lawyers argue human rights of ‘extremely vulnerable’ woman were breached by Home Office access to personal and confidential details

23 July 2020

  • In this undated video footage run by China’s CCTV, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang.

    'Virtually entire' fashion industry complicit in Uighur forced labour, say rights groups

    Human rights coalition says cotton produced in camps in Xinjiang region finds its way into one in five products worldwide
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