Trafficked and tortured for love?
| April 28th, 2024 News Digest |
| OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS |
| Human trafficking Online romance scams hiding torture and modern slavery In Southeast Asia, a sinister business thrives, where dreams of a better life are turned into nightmares of modern slavery. Exploited migrants, forced into running online romance scams, endure harrowing conditions of torture and coercion with little means to escape. |
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| Law & policy Modern slavery victims at the heart of U.K.’s controversial Rwanda deportation policy The U.K. passed the much-contested Rwanda Bill that will deport asylum seekers to the proven unsafe third country. The human cost of its passage is a horrifying reality as shared by a young mother and sex trafficking survivor, now terrified for her and her daughter’s future. Take action… |
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| Prison slavery 5-year forced labor sentence for criticizing the Ukraine war In a recent ruling by the Moscow city courts service, a 39-year-old Russian man, Yuri Kokhovets, was sentenced to five years of forced labor. For what crime? Criticizing the Russian military and the unlawful war on Ukraine.Take action… |
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