Is this a government recruitment drive into slavery?
| April 23, 2023 News Digest |
| OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS |
| Domestic servitude Ethiopia’s recruitment drive into domestic servitude? Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian women are being recruited by their own government for domestic work in Saudi Arabia, despite its longstanding record of abuse and torture. In Saudi Arabia, migrant workers are often excluded from labor protection laws and remain at risk of exploitation under the sponsorship kafala system, notorious for driving forced labor. Read more… |
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| Law & policy Uyghur forced labor law leads to seizure of goods worth millions Freedom United and our partners in the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region lobbied for months for the passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in the U.S., currently the strongest forced labor import ban in the world. Goods worth millions have been seized since its passage but millions more could be flying under the radar. Read more… |
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| Law & policy Unsubstantiated claims endanger trafficking victimsThe U.K.’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman has repeatedly come under fire for making baseless claims about modern slavery victims “gaming the system”, most recently from the former anti-slavery tsar Dame Sara Thornton. Thornton warned MPs this week that these false claims will have a potentially devastating impact on trafficking victims. Read more… |
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