Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have surged to $236 billion annually, with sexual exploitation responsible for three-fourths of the earnings. The International Labor Organization has ...

What is a person’s labor worth? What about their skills developed across years of training and life’s hard-learned lessons? Is it worth a wage that can support a family or buy a home? Is it worth ...

We examined the injustices of prison labor nationwide — and lay the foundation for a more equitable path forward. Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and ...

Editor’s Note: Joanna Ewart-James is executive director of Freedom United, a global community against modern slavery. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Read more CNN Opinion. A ...

A coalition of anti-trafficking and legal aid groups warn that in the drive to quickly rebuild areas devastated by the L.A. fires, the most vulnerable workers could be exploited by unscrupulous ...

Is compulsory unpaid labor essential “therapy” or unjust exploitation? This question was on my mind when I interviewed 40 people who had been required to work, without pay, for the Salvation Army’s ...

FOLEY, Ala. (WKRG) — A Foley restaurant is one of five establishments involved in a labor exploitation investigation that originated in Arizona, according to the Department of Justice. Foley woman ...

MILAN (Reuters) -Italian prosecutors are seeking to place shoemaker Tod's under judicial administration over alleged worker abuses in its supply chain, in the latest in a string of cases that have ...

The exploitation of workers – locals as well as migrants – is a growing concern in the Western Balkans. Despite its prevalence, the scourge too often goes unreported and unaddressed. The Western ...