A decades-long legal battle with farmers over ancestral land has turned deadly and forced Indigenous people to occupy other areas to make a living By Karla Mendes CAARAPO, Brazil (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three years after he was shot,...
Locating sub-contracting suppliers has been the biggest challenge, with many big manufacturers not transparent about the lower ends of their supply chain By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India, July 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bangladesh, the second largest garment producing...
As politicians plan a radical shift in how aboriginal land is demarcated, environmentalists say places like Reserve 124 represent the best chance to save endangered forests By Chris Arsenault and Karla Mendes BOCA DO ACRE, Brazil – (Thomson Reuters...
By David Schilling LONDON – BUSINESS – Today, investors are much more aware of the risks companies face from poorly managed supply chains. Estimates of the number of those trafficked into forced labor and slavery globally range from 21 million...
17-year-old from Guinea told investigators she was flown to Sydney via Paris in early April after a man in her home country offered her a job as a cleaner in Australia KUALA LUMPUR – Underreported News – (Thomson Reuters...
Victim’s mother had previously registered a complaint against one of the accused for pressuring her daughter to marry him NEW DELHI, May 15 (Reuters) – An Indian woman was gang-raped and then brutally murdered by men who smashed her...
The researchers interviewed 603 women working in the sex industry in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Girls being trafficked for sex in northern Mexico often have...
The 70-year-old was appointed to chair Trump’s electoral campaign in Kentucky’s Campbell County last year By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A former Kentucky campaign official for President Donald Trump is due in court on...
Three remained hospitalized SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – More than a dozen members of an indigenous tribe were injured in a dispute over land in northern Brazil, including at least one whose hands were hacked off, according to reports from...
The names of 17 employers profiting from human trafficking has disappeared from the country’s list By Chris Arsenault RIO DE JANEIRO – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazilian prosecutors are demanding answers after the names of 17 employers profiting human...
GENEVA – (Reuters) – Growing numbers of African migrants passing through Libya are traded in what they call slave markets before being held for ransom, forced labour or sexual exploitation, the U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday. West African...
Nepali Customs Official May Be Conspiring KATHMANDU – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Immigration officials at Nepal’s international airport may be colluding with traffickers to send thousands of poor illiterate women to work illegally in Gulf nations where they are...
