Prison slavery called out in Louisiana
By Miriam Karmali, Freedom United
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| Forced labor International Olympics Committee uniforms made with Uyghur forced labor The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has come under fire as reports this week expose how the IOC has given contracts to supply official uniforms for the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to a company with links to forced labor in the Uyghur Region. Freedom United signed a statement calling on the IOC to announce its human rights due diligence plan ahead of the Beijing 2022 Olympics. Read more… |
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| Law & policy U.S. law enforcement: when “rescue” becomes exploitation Reports of police engaging in sexual acts with sex workers in sting operations before going on to arrest them has renewed calls to limit police contact which only serves to dehumanize and traumatize sex workers. Under the guise of anti-trafficking, raids on sex workers’ workplaces often result in arrests, detention and deportation of the women who these raids are purportedly meant to benefit, rarely finding any trafficking victims in the process. Read more… |
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| COVID-19 Pandemic leads to fall in reports to U.K. modern slavery helpline |
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| COVID-19 Lebanon’s vaccine rollout risks excluding migrants and refugees |
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| Freedom United team member, Jamison Liang, writes in openDemocracy on the lessons the anti-trafficking sector must take from the Atlanta massage parlor murders. Read the full piece here. |
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