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Servants at embassies have been paid as little as $9 a day.

Embassies on notice for treating servants like slaves

Former Labor immigration and workplace minister Chris Evans, Australia’s first anti-slavery commissioner, is aiming to use his role to bring more cases to light.

  • Olivia Ireland

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Sarah S escaped sex trafficking in 2020 and did not know she was a victim of modern slavery until she tried to flee and was told she owed $25,000. Sarah is now the Lived Experience Advisor to the Office of Anti-Slavery Commissioner. The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery is in Australia conducting a country assessment that will deliver its interim findings tomorrow to the government. Sydney, NSW. November 26, 2024. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Sarah escaped a cult. She found herself in a living hell

The young woman’s dream of freedom quickly became a nightmare of sexual exploitation.

  • Amber Schultz
Modern slavery includes forced labour, servitude and forced marriage.

The 41,000 urgent priorities our new anti-slavery commissioner has to tackle

In Australia, the number of people living in modern-day slavery could fill the Gabba. So while the government’s appointment is welcome, on its own it’s not enough.

  • Lorraine Finlay
Cambodian businessman Ly Yong Phat, the president of the LYP Group, left attends a ceremony for the return of artefacts at Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

US punishes Cambodian tycoon over slave-driven global scam centres

Ly Yong Phat is a senator from the ruling party, an adviser to former prime minister Hun Sen and the owner of a hotel implicated in a major scam call centre.

  • Zach Hope
A Sydney man caught on CCTV threatening a woman and her child onto a flight to India from Sydney became the first person in Australia to be convicted for an exit human trafficking offence in 2021.

Sydney man abandons wife overseas after she fell out with his mother

The 44-year-old man drew up an itinerary for their trip with details of their flights. It was bogus. He had a return flight, but his wife’s ticket was one-way.

  • Perry Duffin
A sweatshop worker room near polluted worker in Bangladesh.

We all have a role to play to end forced labour

A cocktail of COVID-19, climate change and escalating conflicts around the globe have created opportunities for the hidden crime of modern slavery to thrive.

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Shein is the 14th most downloaded free application on Apple’s Australian app store.

‘Turn them back at the border’: Call for ban on forced labour goods

Shein and Temu are soaring in popularity among consumers, but experts say the risk of forced labour needs to be investigated and some brands should be banned.

  • Amber Schultz
Grace Forrest, founder of campaign group Walk Free, in London for the release of the Global Slavery Index 2023.

‘Slave-like’: Solar panels may be great for the environment but at what human cost?

Modern-day abolitionist Grace Forrest is now at the same level as Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Her cause is to curb forced and child labour while there’s time.

  • Rob Harris
Sergi Andrijenko, survivor, turns 100 next week, but doesn’t call his life a celebration.

Beggar, slave labourer, refugee and widower: Sergi on a childhood stolen and 100 years of solitude

Sergi Andrijenko doesn’t use the word celebrate when he talks about turning 100. Nor does he thank God for his long life. “I wouldn’t want anyone to have a life like mine.”

  • Tony Wright
Sydney Fish Markets Innovation and Technical Manager Erik Poole.

Do you know where your seafood has come from? Here’s why it matters

Australia is probably importing illegal, unreported and unregulated seafood linked to slavery and overfishing amid a lack of regulation, the agriculture minister said.

  • Amber Schultz

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