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 ...

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 ...

The International Labour Organization has expressed strong support for the Group of Seven Labour and Employment Ministers’ renewed commitment to promoting quality jobs and advancing decent work ...

The 2026 May Day celebration, marked less by festivity and more by confrontation, saw the labour movement draw a hard line against what it described as a widening assault on workers’ rights, warning ...

On June 8, 2024, a significant reform on labor exploitation came in to force under the General Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Crimes related to Trafficking in Persons and the Protection and ...

Data from the Peninsular Malaysia Manpower Department (JTKSM) showed 70 victims were rescued in 2023, decreasing to 10 in ...

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 ...

Barranca Landscape crew members ascend a steep hill overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir in Los Angeles to prepare the land for native plants. (Courtesy Terremoto) In the spring of 2021, we published ...

As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned interior spaces, ordering food, groceries, clothing, and other products to ...

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 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) explores exploitation with its latest exhibition. “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction” unfolds chronologically—beginning with the aftermath of World War I ...