U.N. Forced Labour Drive Hits Target With Backing Of 50 Nations

The world has reached a “major milestone” in the drive to combat modern slavery after Sudan became the fiftieth country to back a United Nations treaty against forced labour, the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday. The legally binding 2014 pact – a protocol to the 1930 ILO Forced Labour Convention – compels […]
Cambodians Sue US And Thai Firms Over Trafficking And Forced Labour Claims

Cambodian villagers have filed a lawsuit against four companies that supply American supermarkets, claiming they were trafficked to work under slavery-like conditions in a Thai seafood factory that exports to the US. The civil lawsuit, filed in June in a California federal court, accuses the US and Thai firms of knowingly profiting from the villagers’ […]