In Australia,the number of people living in modern-day slavery could fill the Gabba. So while the government’s appointment is welcome,on its own it’s not enough.
Ly Yong Phat is a senator from the ruling party,an adviser to former prime minister Hun Sen and the owner of a hotel implicated in a major scam call centre.
The 44-year-old man drew up an itinerary for their trip with details of their flights. It was bogus. He had a return flight,but his wife’s ticket was one-way.
A cocktail of COVID-19,climate change and escalating conflicts around the globe have created opportunities for the hidden crime of modern slavery to thrive.
Shein and Temu are soaring in popularity among consumers,but experts say the risk of forced labour needs to be investigated and some brands should be banned.
Modern-day abolitionist Grace Forrest is now at the same level as Nelson Mandela,Malala Yousafzai,Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Her cause is to curb forced and child labour while there’s time.
Sergi Andrijenko doesn’t use the word celebrate when he talks about turning 100. Nor does he thank God for his long life. “I wouldn’t want anyone to have a life like mine.”
Australia is probably importing illegal,unreported and unregulated seafood linked to slavery and overfishing amid a lack of regulation,the agriculture minister said.
A Melbourne couple jailed for keeping a slave have been ordered to pay their victim,who now lives in an aged care home,more than $485,000 in the first payment of its kind in Australia.
An unscrupulous employer engineered a path to this country for the young hopeful Chinese man,then put him to work for a pittance.
A woman who made a Tamil grandmother her slave used a shopping centre pay phone to call the victim and try to silence her from giving evidence to police investigating the case.