Social justice campaigners must collaborate across sectors to confront the far right, GI-TOC warns global safeguards are not keeping pace with organized crime, and two thirds of children in South Sudan are engaged in child labour.
Observers question the motives behind the KK Park raid as freed workers arrive in Thailand, new U.S. trade agreements include labour rights provisions, and CSOs in Myanmar continue anti-trafficking efforts amid conflict and displacement.
Freedom Collaborative gathers inputs from CSOs to inform global research efforts, a report identifies forced labour cases among Starbucks suppliers, and MEPs urge the EU to end support for Libyan security forces amid human rights abuses.
Our latest report on forced criminality highlights the need for greater CSO coordination, the U.S. and UK launch sanctions against Cambodia’s cyber-scam industry, and anti-trafficking groups sue the Trump administration for undermining the TVPA.
Authorities, academics and CSOs convene to discuss Thailand’s trafficking response, the European Parliament agrees to further scale back corporate due diligence requirements, and German NGO data shows a notable increase in documented cases of trafficking.
Forced criminality significantly transforms Vietnam’s trafficking landscape, a new service checks football contracts for trafficking red flags, and a recent study looks at the vulnerability to exploitation of Ukrainian refugees in Moldova.
The 2025 TIP Report highlights forced criminality and the state complicity that enables it, new data shows the impact of climate change on exploitation in Nepal, and courts increasingly hold companies accountable for supply chain abuses.
Traffickers find new routes into Myanmar to evade travel restrictions and heightened security, an investigation finds the U.S. has aggressively rolled back its anti-trafficking efforts, and experts mark 20 years of the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.
East African CSOs confront the poverty and legal gaps that drive re-trafficking, human rights groups say the EU’s new deportation proposal focuses on punishment not protection, and experts urge Pakistan to protect children from trafficking disguised as adoption.
New research spotlights the ongoing expansion of online scam compounds in Southeast Asia, a post-Brexit reduction in seafood import checks risks letting forced labour products into the UK, and a new U.S. network aims to connect trafficking survivors with free legal support.
Cross Global and other CSOs in India combine direct support with policy engagement to fight exploitation, Texas reclassifies trafficking as a first-degree felony, and crypto companies freeze assets connected to online fraud.
EHAAT members and Southeast Asia experts discuss the trafficking of East Africans into cyber-scam centers, IJM examines potential links between scam compounds and child sextortion, and Uzbek Forum warns that cotton sector reforms in Uzbekistan risk being undermined by coercive dependency.
Experts contend that forced labour bans lead to major changes in corporate behavior, a new report maps the financial ecosystem underpinning cyber-scam networks, and a project to protect workers in Cameroon centers community-led systems.
Human rights donors should mobilize funding for community-led due diligence initiatives, the IOM requests inputs for its Global Strategy on Migration, Business and Human Rights, and the OSCE seeks survivor leaders for its advisory council.
Frontline groups spotlight the unequal impact of ongoing funding challenges, ICAT underscores the connection between trafficking and organized crime, and UHRP warns that expanding EU-bound air cargo routes risk embedding Uyghur forced labour.
EHAAT findings highlight the role of legal assistance in supporting victim recovery, experts sound the alarm over staffing cuts at the U.S. TIP Office, and UK lawmakers recommend sweeping reforms to address forced labour in supply chains.
EHAAT data highlights re-trafficking risks including family instability and a lack of access to education, experts question the credibility of Cambodia’s anti-scam crackdown, and Walk Free warns of threats to the EU’s due diligence legislation.
EHAAT and Freedom Collaborative publish a new routes mapping report, the U.S. lays off significant numbers of State Department staffers, and a new paper highlights the disproportionate risk of exploitation for disabled people.
EHAAT members meet to review progress and plan future initiatives, UNODC highlights weak legal responses to forced criminality in ASEAN states, and Ghanaian authorities rescue trafficking victims lured abroad by football contract promises.
A study of exploitation in India’s sugarcane sector calls for systemic change across supply chains, former U.S. presidents criticize the dismantling of USAID, and displaced Cambodian families receive payouts from a Thai sugar producer.
Freedom Collaborative and GLC host a discussion on challenges and opportunities in the anti-trafficking sector, the ILO commits to global standards for platform work, and this year’s Global Rights Index notes a steep decline in workers’ rights.
The Beyond Trafficking and Slavery project examines its critiques of the anti-trafficking establishment, a new publication offers guidance on implementing the non-punishment principle, and NGOs call for humanitarian assistance in Yemen.
RSO hosts a workshop on cross-border coordination for trafficking investigations, a report explores how China is circumventing a U.S. ban on forced labour imports, and trafficking survivors file a record-breaking number of civil cases.
The anti-trafficking sector faces both a lack of funding and increased restrictions, UN experts call for urgent action on forced criminality in scam compounds, and a report highlights forced labour in Turkmenistan’s cotton industry.