Workers are recruited via unlicensed third-party agencies. Use of unlicensed third-party agencies increases the risk of labor exploitation.
Workers pay for recruitment, employment or repatriation fees. Costs associated with employment can place workers in debt bondage.
Workers receive unclear or unintelligible contracts. Contracts without clear terms place workers at risk of exploitation.
Workers are required to hand over identity or work documents. Retaining documents stops workers from moving freely or seeking new employment.
The authors are a group of investors working to help end modern slavery, which currently affects an estimated 40 million people globally, with 70% of that number estimated to be in the Asia-Pacific region. IAST APAC was established in 2020, based on...Read More
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018 and is accurate as of July 25, 2019. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may revealed to the National Hotline over time. Consequen...Read More
Modern Slavery refers to situations where one person has taken away another person's freedom - their freedom to choose to refuse certain work or to stop working - so that they can be exploited. Freedom is taken away by threats, violence, coercio...Read More
GFEMS has launched a series of projects to combat forced labor among Kenyan migrant workers. As a part of this effort, GFEMS engaged NORC to measure the prevalence of forced labor among recently returned Kenyan migrant workers from Gulf Cooperation ...Read More
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