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HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH
It’s the end of our #GoBeyondTheLabel series!
We hope you’ve gained a better understanding of the whys, whats and hows of ethical fashion and sustainable consumerism.
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Virus prevention advice in various languages:
* Video (Indonesian) – Dr Ho PL Youtube Channel
* Video (Tagalog) – Dr Ho PL Youtube Channel
* Leaflet (Sinhala) – Sri Lankan Buddhist Cultural Centre (HK) Facebook
* Web Info (Other Languages) – Centre for Health Protection, DH
HONG KONG
‘It’s crazy now’: Discrimination over coronavirus is worse than during SARS, says Hong Kong domestic worker activist
Date: 6 February 2020
Source: Hong Kong Free Press
The Labour Department caused a major backlash among the migrant worker community, as advocacy group slammed the department’s call for domestic workers to spend their rest day at home as “unfair and discriminatory. Eman Villanueva, Vice-Chairperson of the Filipino Migrant Workers’ Union says, “the government should have made a general call for all citizens to minimise social contact, rather than singling out domestic workers.”
Three reports from female inmates at Hong Kong’s prison mask factory
Date: 7 February 2020
Source: Lausan
Shiu Ka-chun, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council in the Social Welfare functional constituency, publicized overlooked accounts of labor exploitation, wage theft and human rights violation in the midst of emergency facemask production by female inmates in Hong Kong’s carceral system. Here are translations of three short updates from late January to early February from the office of Shiu.
ASIA
Dozens of Rohingya refugees missing, 15 confirmed dead after boat capsizes
Date: 11 February 2020
Source: Reuters
The vessel had set sail packed with refugees trying to make their way to Malaysia from camps in Bangladesh. “It was inhumane,” said the official, Hamidul Islam. “The boat was carrying roughly 130 people, while it had a capacity of 50.” Malaysia is home to more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees. Lured by traffickers, hundreds attempt the perilous voyage to Malaysia on overcrowded, rickety vessels during the November-to-March window.
How Nepal’s migration ban traps female ‘modern day slaves’ in the Gulf
Date: 14 February 2020
Source: The Guardian
Amita knew she had to escape. After five months of being assaulted, starved and being forced to work for 20 hours a day as a domestic maid in a suburban house in Kuwait, the 45-year old from Nepal seized her chance. While the household slept, she climbed out of a downstairs bathroom window and fled. Amita managed to find the Nepali embassy, hoping that staff there would help send her home. They refused. “Instead, they told me to go to jail,” she says.
Bride trafficking, a problem on China’s belt and road
Date: 15 February 2020
Source: South China Morning Post
As Beijing’s multibillion-dollar infrastructure drive expands across Asia, experts say greater regional connectivity may have an unwanted by-product. Girls and young women in the poorer countries it connects appear to be at greater risk of human trafficking and forced marriages. Louise is among thousands of young girls and women who have been trafficked into marriages with Chinese men…
GLOBAL
Sarah Lawrence parent accused of sex trafficking and abusing students
Date: 11 February 2020
Source: New York Times
Lawrence V. Ray showed up at his daughter’s elite college in late 2010, shortly after being released from prison, and moved into her dormitory. Soon, he started doing “therapy sessions” with her roommates, convincing them he could help with their problems. For eight years, the indictment said, Mr. Ray “subjected the victims to sexual and psychological manipulation and physical abuse.”
British woman repeatedly trafficked for sex after Home Office failures
Date: 16 February 2020
Source: The Guardian
A highly vulnerable sex trafficking victim was re-trafficked by county lines drug gangs on multiple occasions after the Home Office repeatedly refused to fulfil its legal obligation to provide her with safe accommodation. “It is wholly unacceptable to refuse to provide specialist support and accommodation to a victim of modern slavery because their needs are too complex,” said Rachael Davis, solicitor at Duncan Lewis.
‘You’re not screening for them’: Concern that trafficked Irish children are falling through the cracks
Date: 23 February 2020
Source: TheJournel.ie
The OSCE’s special representative for combating trafficking in human beings, said one of the main pieces lacking in Ireland’s response to human trafficking is proactive identification. When it comes to child victims, the data indicates that most of the identified victims are from other countries, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t Irish victims…
Disappearance of pregnant refugees raises trafficking fears in Netherlands
Date: 23 February 2020
Source: The Irish Times
At least 25 pregnant African women went missing from refugee centres in the Netherlands in November and December, in what is feared may be a new development in the trafficking of refugees from centres across Europe. Concerns hardened that the women were being trafficked and that their children could be illegally adopted – or even, in some cases, sold for use in voodoo rituals.
RESOURCES
Opinion: Cracking The $150 Billion Business Of Human Trafficking
Date: 2 February 2020
Source: Forbes
Human trafficking often involves the legitimate services of banks, transportation companies, the hospitality business, health care providers, and digital social media platforms. It is clear that governments cannot address this issue alone and rely on the private sector and civil society organization to join forces and scale-up solutions.
Report: Slavery is not a crime in almost half the countries of the world
Date: 13 February 2020
Source: The Conversation
Legal ownership of people was abolished in all countries over the course of the last two centuries. Yet the latest research by the University of Nottingham reveals that almost half of all countries in the world have yet to actually make it a crime to enslave another human being.
Access the article here.
Read the summary report here.
Report: Climate change leads to more violence against women, girls
Date: 24 February 2020
Source: Deutsche Welle
Rape, domestic violence, forced marriages: a recent study from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) shows the effects of climate change are leading to an increase in violence against girls and women in many corners of the world – “a link that has so far been largely overlooked,” said Grethel Aguilar, IUCN’s acting director general.
Access the article here.
Read the report here.
STOP ENEWS, PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH, AIMS TO PROVIDE CURRENT NEWS, EVENTS, AND RESOURCES TO THE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COMMUNITY IN HONG KONG. IF YOU HAVE ANTI-TRAFFICKING RELATED ACTIVITIES OR RESOURCES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THROUGH OUR ENEWS NETWORK, SEND YOUR SUGGESTIONS TO NEWS@STOPHK.ORG. INCLUSION OF CONTENT IN NO WAY REFLECTS THE VIEWS OF OUR ORGANISATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.STOP IS AN INITIATIVE OF BRANCHES OF HOPE BASED IN HONG KONG. IT IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANY OTHER ANTI-TRAFFICKING ORGANISATION OF THE SAME OR SIMILAR NAME.First issue of Branches of Hope eNews 2020
本月焦點
#GoBeyondTheLabel 系列完滿結束啦！
希望大家對永續時尚嘅概念、衣物標籤背後嘅故事都有咗更深嘅認識。而咁好嘅消費習慣，我哋點可以俾佢停！作為消費者同埋產品嘅使用者，除咗衫褲鞋襪以外，其他各樣產品嘅供應鏈透明度我哋都應該多加留意。
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感謝各方捐贈口罩、消毒搓手液！
希望枝子已於上禮拜，將1,200個口罩以及70枝消毒搓手液，派發予在港嘅難民家庭以及人口販運倖存者。我哋亦多謝一眾義工嘅幫忙，令整個分發過程如此順利！
外語防疫資訊:
* 印尼話：疫境自強: 教手衛生、戴口罩 – 何柏良醫生 Youtube頻道
* 菲律賓語：疫境自強: 防疫通識、人人都要識 – 何柏良醫生 Youtube頻道
* 僧伽羅語：傳單 – 斯里蘭卡佛學文化中心 Facebook專頁
* 其他語言：網頁資訊 – 衛生防護中心
有用嘅話就分享俾你嘅朋友啦！
香港
女囚友稱被強制加班趕製口罩 懲教署：可按意願選擇夜班工作
日期：2020年2月4日
來源：明報
立法會（社會福利界）議員邵家臻4日表示，收到女囚友報料稱懲教工業組（CSI）趕製口罩，囚友被強制加班3小時，部分被調「期數」（監房術語，即工作場所）的囚友被迫變相減人工，感當中涉及不公平。邵家臻要求懲教署改善囚友加班待遇和顧及人道安排。
有外傭突遭解僱 休息日不能外出照工作 外傭團體：社會歧視才是最可怕病毒
日期：2020年2月5日
來源：立場新聞
國際移工聯盟（香港及澳門分部）5日召開記者會，指收到許多外傭投訴，有僱主以終止合約來威脅外傭不能於休息日外出，更有僱主因考慮到疫情嚴重而突然解僱其外傭，或要求外傭休息日回家時要用酒精清洗全身。外傭團體認為武漢肺炎及勞工處日前的呼籲惡化了大眾對外傭的歧視。
蘋人誌：現代奴隸為公義而戰
日期：2020年2月5日
來源：蘋果新聞
ZN因應香港政府未有立法保障任何人免遭人口販運或強迫勞動，入稟法庭司法覆核。他本身也曾遭受強迫勞動，被巴籍僱主虐待四年，無薪工作不止，更被困在工作地點。漫漫司法路長達五年，直至1月10日，終審法院宣告敗訴，ZN失落地說：「如政府繼續拖延訂立有效嘅保護措施，其他受害者會一直被困於黑暗中，我們的痛苦只會日增。」
亞洲
人口販運船隻超載翻覆：15名羅興亞人喪生，孟加拉警方逮捕8名嫌犯
日期：2020年2月14日
來源：關鍵評論
一艘從科克斯巴扎爾出發到馬來西亞的漁船，於11日在聖馬丁島海岸翻覆，導致15名羅興亞人溺斃喪命。警方表示，這艘因超載而翻覆的漁船，是人口販子中間人引誘羅興亞人，經由海路前往馬來西亞。相關官員表示，「這艘船載了大概130人，但是船的運量只可負荷50人。」
+ 全文
+ 延伸閱讀：羅興亞難民營人數逼近百萬 灰色地帶成「兒童販賣」溫床
台灣人哭訴悲慘經歷：揭開東南亞博彩業的神秘面紗
日期：2020年2月17日
來源：BBC 中文
東南亞早已成為中國人離岸博彩業的基地，這些「海外網絡賭場」的業務皆面向中國顧客，員工則從中國、台灣招募而來。今年24歲、來自台灣的賴羽倩，去年因急於尋找新工作，並希望能有海外工作經歷，聽信朋友的建議到馬尼拉工作。她沒料到這趟海外之旅會充滿謊言、精神凌遲，甚至因為護照遭扣留，差點回不了台灣。
國際
「被偷走的孩子們」：揭秘美國校園性交易案
日期：2020年2月13日
來源：新京報
2010年末，剛出獄的勞倫斯·雷住進了他女兒在勞倫斯學院的宿舍。不久，雷開始對他女兒陷於麻煩中的同學和朋友實施所謂的“心理治療”，並在獲得學生們的信任後，通過威脅、身體暴力、侮辱等方式迫使學生們承認他們未曾犯下的罪行。雷還強迫至少一名學生從事賣淫工作，又要求幾名學生在他親戚家中從事無償勞動，以支付“欠”他的錢。
澳洲網上誘騙兒童個案增逾10倍
日期：2020年2月14日
來源：澳洲新報
10年間，澳洲網上兒童性剝削案件從1000件猛增到1.7萬件。聯邦警察發現，性罪犯正在滲透諸如在線遊戲等新的平台，通過偽裝成一名和孩子志同道合的遊戲迷，和孩子進行信息交易。另外一些人則會轉向父母，以承諾能夠參加時尚比賽或假裝是朋友推薦過來為理由，欺騙他們和他們的孩子。
人口販賣非同街頭擄拐 逾3成事主受男友誘使
日期：2020年2月23日
來源：加拿大星島日報
加拿大人對人口販賣存有誤解，據新近民調顯示，有73%的國民相信，人口販賣是始於從街上被人拐走，另有47%的受訪者認為當事人被綁架，被迫以賣淫來換取金錢。其實，很多受害人是被認識的人包括男友引誘及招募，而陷入人口販賣的境況。
評論及資源
性剝削、家暴、童婚…… 氣候危機下的暴力事件 女性首當其衝
日期：2020年2月4日
來源：國家地理雜誌
全球暖化帶來資源競爭壓力，乾旱、洪水和猛烈風暴等極端天氣事件越來越頻繁、破壞力越來越強。在世界大多數地區，婦女原本就處於弱勢地位，缺乏土地權和合法權利，更容易受到剝削。當氣候危機帶來額外壓力，女性首先成為目標。世界自然保護聯盟（IUCN）的報告發現，在自然環境受到壓力的地區，人口販運也會增加，性別暴力和野生動植物盜獵、非法資源開採等環境犯罪之間存在關聯。
評論：孟加拉成衣大樓倒塌 7 年後，今日血汗工廠有任何改善？
日期：2020年2月4日
來源：Heaven Raven
2013 年，孟加拉拉納廣場大樓倒塌，造成 1138 名成衣工人喪生及 2500 人受傷，受害者多為婦女勞工。該棟大樓裡有 6 間製衣廠，上萬人擠在同一棟樓工作，極度惡劣的工作環境裡充斥著對人體有害的化學物質。意外發生後，大眾意識到血汗勞工議題的重要性，並開始檢視品牌衣服背後製程、勞力以及原物料是否符合道德標準，同時呼籲品牌透明公開自己的供應鏈。
STOP. 中文電子報每月出版，旨在向本港打擊販運人口的社區提供最新的新聞和資源。如你有反人口販運的資訊想透過本報發放，請聯絡 NEWS@STOPHK.ORG。本電子報內容並不反映 STOP. 的立場，謝謝您對本組織的支持。STOP. 是 希望枝子有限公司 (BRANCHES OF HOPE) 其中一個項目，旨在對抗人口販運。本組織與其他名稱類同的反人口販運組織並無關連。STOP ENEWS : JANUARY 2020
THIS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY STOP TRAFFICKING OF PEOPLE (STOP), PROVIDING YOU WITH THE MOST UP-TO-DATE NEWS, EVENTS AND RESOURCES RELATED TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING. FOR DAILY UPDATES, VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.
HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH
Another shattering blow to Hong Kong’s trafficked and enslaved…
ZN was a victim of human trafficking for forced labour in Hong Kong between 2007 and 2010. He filed a judicial review against the government in 2015 after failing to receive help from the Immigration Department, the police and the Labour Department.
The Court of Final Appeal ruled earlier this month that the government has no duty under the Bill of Rights to enact specific legislation criminalizing human trafficking and forced labour crimes.
Here’s our response (please scroll down for English version).
Read about ZN’s case here.
Thank you Harmony Baptist!
We had the pleasure of giving a workshop on Human Trafficking in Hong Kong to the wonderful congregation of Harmony Baptist Church this month. Thank you so much for joining us and for your amazing energy, we hope you enjoyed it!
Let’s talk fashion, slave-free fashion.
New year, new me? Why not kick-off the Year of the Rat as a more sustainable shopper! As consumers, we have the power to end slavery in supply chains. To get you started, STOP has prepared a video, which talks about the fashion supply chain and its interwoven human rights abuses.
Find out more about how you can #GoBeyondTheLabel here.
ASIA
Abused, fighting for justice: the ordeals of Asia’s migrant domestic workers in 2019
Date: 25 December 2019
Source: South China Morning Post
There are more than 21 million migrant domestic workers filling the care gap in Asia and the Pacific, but despite their essential role and economic contribution, many face abuse and have few rights. Here are some of their stories.
Indian slaves swap life of bondage for seat in boardroom at tea plantation
Date: 9 January 2020
Source: Reuters
Sharda Krishnan’s mind wandered from the boardroom to the farm where she was enslaved as a child. Her only payment had been in paddy rice and porridge, autonomy was unimaginable and despair perpetual. Now she co-owns a tea plantation in Kerala. Run by former bonded laborers for nearly 35 years, it is a place where freedom is a given and fear does not exist.
Rise of Chinese-only prostitution catches Philippines by surprise
Date: 12 January 2020
Source: South China Morning Post
Nearly 300 Chinese sex workers and their clients were rounded up in raids by the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police on 12 brothels in the second half of last year. Tied to the explosive growth of online gambling companies in the Philippines, many of the sex workers were enticed to gamble, loses money, then forced to turn in their passports and become prostitutes to pay their debts.
Confusion mounts over Qatar’s new exit permit regime
Date: 17 January 2020
Source: Middle East Eye
Domestic workers who fail to give 72-hour warning to their employers of their intent to leave the country will face financial penalties, according to Qatar’s interior ministry. “It is not clear how this 72-hour rule will work in practice and it is obviously open to abuse… it seems to signal a desire to retain excessive control over domestic workers,” said an independent analyst focusing on Gulf migrant rights.
GLOBAL
Fleeing home: Refugees and human trafficking
Date: 31 December 2019
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Global refugee flows have reached the highest levels in history as over twenty-five million people have been forced to leave their home countries. Many refugees already face perilous journeys, harsh living conditions in camps, and discrimination in host countries, but they are also at risk of a human rights violation too often insufficiently addressed in security and conflict prevention efforts: human trafficking.
Levels of child criminal exploitation ‘almost back to Victorian times’
Date: 2 January 2020
Source: The Guardian
While in previous years, sexual or labour exploitation were the biggest reasons to class someone as a modern slave, it was now criminal exploitation driven by drug gangs. British Chief constable Shaun Sawyer said as state provision for children receded in the last decade, driven in part by austerity, criminals had exploited the space between “the school gate and the front door”, and called for a gender bias against seeing boys as victims of criminal exploitation to end.
Charged with prostitution, she went to a special court. Did it help?
Date: 6 January 2020
Source: The New York Times
When New York State created a network of 12 Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, criminal justice professionals hailed it as an innovation. The courts send people into counseling sessions to help them leave the multibillion-dollar sex trade while dismissing their charges and sealing their records. But even as courts like these have begun to proliferate nationwide, New York’s own have come under increasing criticism, six years into their operation, that they are not living up to their promise.
Canada finally decides to make sure it’s not buying goods made by forced labour
Date: 23 January 2020
Source: Vice
Honing in on supply chains is vital to ending forced labour—while many companies claim that they don’t use forced or child labour, inhumane practises are often employed by their contractors or sub-contractors. Australia, UK, the Netherlands and France all passed laws in recent years requiring companies to publish statements outlining their efforts to ensure human rights are respected in their supply chains. Canada has no such legislation, just a strategy.
RESOURCES
Scapegoats to supply chains: Five aims for the anti-slavery fight in 2020
Date: 31 December 2019
Source: Reuters
With a decade for the world to meet a United Nations target of ending modern slavery, experts say anti-slavery efforts must be guided by survivors, supported by law enforcement and kept at the top of the global activism agenda. Here are five priorities for the global anti-slavery movement in 2020 as told to the Thomson Reuters Foundation by campaigners, civil servants, and migration and trade experts.
Hiding in plain sight: the faces of modern-day slavery
Date: 8 January 2020
Source: The National
Sixty metres underground, Lisa Kristine is enveloped in darkness. It’s hard to breathe. The air is heavy with dust and fumes, and she feels the heat of bodies shuffling around in the shadows. She can hear the sound of tools hitting stone, of men coughing. They are in an illegal mine in Ghana. The men are here to break stone and carry the pieces to the surface in the hope that some of the fragments might contain gold. But, Kristine is here for something else – their photographs.
Opinion: It’s 2020 but bonded labour is still a reality in India. Here’s why.
Date: 28 January 2020
Source: The News Minute
In July 2019, a viral photo showed a 60-year-old man with his knees and hands on the barren ground, expressing his gratitude to the Tamil Nadu state officials who helped release him from debt bondage. The moving, yet heartbreaking photo offers a small glimmer of hope for victims of the exploitative and abusive system. Yet it also belies the truth — bonded labour is a reality even in 2020, with no evidence to show the problem abating.
Access the article here.
Read more about India’s undercompensated trafficked here.
STOP ENEWS, PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH, AIMS TO PROVIDE CURRENT NEWS, EVENTS, AND RESOURCES TO THE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COMMUNITY IN HONG KONG. IF YOU HAVE ANTI-TRAFFICKING RELATED ACTIVITIES OR RESOURCES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THROUGH OUR ENEWS NETWORK, SEND YOUR SUGGESTIONS TO NEWS@STOPHK.ORG. INCLUSION OF CONTENT IN NO WAY REFLECTS THE VIEWS OF OUR ORGANISATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.STOP IS AN INITIATIVE OF BRANCHES OF HOPE BASED IN HONG KONG. IT IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANY OTHER ANTI-TRAFFICKING ORGANISATION OF THE SAME OR SIMILAR NAME.STOP 電子報：2020年01月
本月焦點
ZN案敗訴：對人口販運受害者的又一沈重打擊
ZN係一名強迫勞動受害者，2007年被販賣嚟香港工作後，遭僱主勞役四年之久。佢事後曾向入境處、警務處及勞工處求助，但都不獲受理。2015年，ZN提出司法覆核，控告政府未有立法保障任何人免受人口販運或強迫勞動。終審法院今月初裁定，香港政府冇絶對責任就相關行為制訂刑事罪名，STOP 對此結果表示非常失望。
Thank you Harmony Baptist!
多謝Harmony Baptist嘅信眾支持同參與STOP於19日舉行嘅人口販運工作坊，希望當日嘅內容有讓你哋更了解香港人口販運嘅問題啦！
良心新時尚
人口販運係全球第二大嘅跨國罪行，冇任何一個國家、城市或產業免疫，包括時裝產業。作為消費者，我哋有能力影響企業嘅決定。當消費者普遍要求企業要有良心地對待供應鏈中嘅人，並且關心當中有冇強迫勞動和現代奴役，企業先會開始重視勞工嘅權益同供應鏈嘅透明度。今日起，一齊#GoBeyondTheLabel，做個良心時尚人，唔好等啦！
+ 去片了解時尚業的血汗代價（英）
+ 更多有關標籤背後的故事…
+ 去片了解時尚業的血汗代價（英）
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亞洲
雖有勞工保護協議，移工仍遭虐致死：菲律賓暫停輸出勞工至科威特
日期：2020年1月3日
來源：關鍵評論
科威特於2018年屢傳菲勞受虐身亡消息，甚至還有失蹤一年多的女性移工屍體在棄置公寓的冷凍庫被發現，馬尼拉當局一度全面停止輸出勞工到科威特，並大舉召回當地菲勞。談妥勞工保護機制後，馬尼拉當局才解除輸出菲勞至科威特的禁令，然而上月再有在科威特工作的菲籍家務移工疑遭科威特雇主虐打致死。
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越籍女子被騙赴台當按摩師 被迫接客還慘遭毆打
日期：2020年1月10日
來源：三立新聞網
檢警兵分24日，在台北市中山區等處破獲越南賣淫集團，不僅主嫌陳俊吉全家一家5口人都是集團成員，為管理方便，還雇用越南移工負責監督，有人想逃便恐嚇「打斷腿」，逼越南女子全天候關在套房內不斷接客。偵辦後將陳俊吉等一共14人依傷害、恐嚇、妨害自由、違反人口販運防治法等罪起訴。
國際
黑奴貿易在歐洲重演 難民營有進無回
日期：2020年1月3日
來源：聯合新聞網
為減緩穿越地中海進入歐洲的非法移民浪潮，歐盟撥款了數百萬歐元給利比亞，希望改善因虐待與走私人口而惡名昭著的拘留中心環境，但根據美聯社調查，即便在聯合國監督下，民兵組織仍以酷刑折磨、勒索及其他方式虐待移民來索取贖金，許多移民甚至在拘留中心內消失，被賣給人口販子或其他拘留中心。
極端貧困下的非洲灰色產業，不到20元就能租到一個黑人小孩
日期：2020年1月16日
來源：每日頭條
為減緩穿越地中海進入歐洲的非法移民浪潮，歐盟撥款了數百萬歐元給利比亞，希望改善因虐待與走私人口而惡名昭著的拘留中心環境，但根據美聯社調查，即便在聯合國監督下，民兵組織仍以酷刑折磨、勒索及其他方式虐待移民來索取贖金，許多移民甚至在拘留中心內消失，被賣給人口販子或其他拘留中心。
拒絕「可可」童奴 荷蘭巧克力商推動販賣「100%無奴隸巧克力」
日期：2020年1月31日
來源：創藝時代
在非洲迦納與象牙海岸2個地方，種植可可豆的農業家庭有250萬個，粗估約有210萬名兒童持續在極端惡劣的勞動條件下被剝削、從事奴隸般的工作。儘管眾多國際品牌已於2001年共同簽署可可協議（Harkin-Engel protocol），要用10年根除童工現象，但時至今日可可產業的進展似乎有限。開始打破這個局面的，是來自荷蘭、創立於2005年的Tony’s Chocolonely。
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綠色和平報告揭露漁工陷於海上奴役
日期：2019年12月31日
來源：綠色和平
人類文明進入21世紀第2個十年，你會否驚異「奴役」依然處於現在進行式？事實上，奴役存在於國際漁業，而我們鄰近東南亞國家的民工，為了生活離鄉別井，成為遠洋強權漁船上的「外籍漁工」，卻在缺乏國際社會監管的大海中，長期受到剝削壓榨，而遠洋漁業中系統性的惡性循環，甚至危及他們的健康及性命。
「因為她像個小孩」：泰國的性產業和奴隸制
日期：2020年1月8日
來源：新浪網
關於奴隸制，在很多人的印象里，已經成為歷史了。《用後即棄的人》作者凱文·貝爾斯告訴讀者：「在我們生活的世界上，仍然隱藏著超過2700萬奴隸，他們不一定是按照傳統的形式被奴役，更多的，是在全球經濟的新奴隸制下生存。」界面文化經出版方授權刊載書中部分章節以饗讀者，希望這部分的內容能夠幫助你更加瞭解這個世界，也希望我們分享的這個故事，可以成為推動社會變化的種子和契機。
觀點：唇膏、胭脂為何成為礦區孩童的夢魘？藏在美麗彩妝下的黑暗秘密
日期：2020年1月21日
來源：天下雜誌
住在賈坎德邦、11 歲的 Pooja Bhurla 鑽進狹窄的地道，費力的挖出亮晶晶含有雲母的砂土，一簍接著一簍用頭頂到外頭；其他一起在礦區工作的小朋友繼續接手，將雲母挑出。Pooja 從 8 歲就開始，每日在雲母礦坑工作，沒有所謂的週休二日、更不是一個短暫的兼差，「如果我們不來挖雲母，我們要怎麼讓餐桌上有食物？」但是，Pooja 一天的薪水僅有 20-30 盧比之間。
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