It’s hard to believe – and harder to stomach – that girls as young as one year old are being trafficked and sold for sex. But it’s a reality for many in the Philippines, a global hub for sexual abuse ...

Dang Ke Duc for the ILO/Flickr. Creative Commons. When do de facto property rights—which derive from relationships of dependence—trump, bypass, or otherwise remove the need for consent? This is an old ...

Between 1632 and 1760, records show that 734 Indigenous children were enslaved in France's North American colony, historian Dominique Deslandres reveals in two recent studies. Subscribe to our ...

Your kids will have a better life than you had. You’ll make sure of it, saving for their education, demanding excellence from them, requiring discipline, and offering support for their dreams and ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At six years old James Kofi Annan was sold into slavery. For seven years he risked his life diving into the murky waters of Ghana's vast Lake Volta to untangle ...

India has the highest number of slaves in the world and it is in the forms of bonded labour, child trafficking and forced marriages. Many people, especially from lower castes, are trapped in bonded ...

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Countries with a high prevalence of modern slavery share common challenges, including restricted civil liberties, authoritarian rule, and poor labor protections. In some cases, slavery is sponsored by ...

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Hidden Scottish farms which cultivate cannabis on an industrial scale are tended by children, trafficked to this country and held against their will in conditions of slavery. For many recreational ...

The lemonade stand is quintessential summer Americana for a bored kid looking to make a handful of quarters. But last year a little girl from Marin County, California set up a lemonade stand to raise ...