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Migrant farm workers in UK trapped by recruitment debt bondage
After paying illegal recruitment fees in their home countries migrant farm workers in Britain become trapped in debt bondage.
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Modern slavery numbers soar to 50 million, driven by global crises
Global Slavery Index exposes links between climate change and rising risk of forced labour.
Food & Agriculture
Major brands bought palm oil from plantation rife with modern slavery and torture
Young Indonesian men sent to a 'drug rehabilitation' centre were subjected to violence and forced to work in an oil palm plantation. Two died from injuries sustained at the site, reports The Gecko Project.
Britain denounced for failing to ban cotton imports from Xinjiang, where rights groups accuse Beijing of mass forced labour in camps.
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