exploitation

Children and adults who work on Zimbabwe’s tobacco farms are facing serious risks to their health as well as labour and human rights abuses, reports Human Rights Watch. 

Forty one vulnerable workers are being supported following dawn raids by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority and Merseyside Police investigating an alleged Modern Day Slavery network in north-west England.

The National Crime Agency has published a report on the drug dealing model known as County Lines, which involves networks from urban centres expanding their drug dealing activities into smaller towns and rural areas, often exploiting young or otherwise vulnerable people to do so.

A new report from Amnesty says the Qatari authorities are failing to protect thousands of foreign domestic workers who face severe exploitation.