26 February 2015, USC News Migrant workers isolated from technology and social networks are more vulnerable to human trafficking, forced labor and exploitation, according to a new report released today by the Center for Communication Leadership & Po... read more
25 February 2015 Tech Investor News, The UK is considering relaxing the rules under which IT-related roles can be offered to foreign workers. The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is recommending that the government eases regulations on hiring non-E... read more
23 February 2015, Hotelier Midddle East.com A recruitment agency in the Philippines which illegally deployed workers under the name of Al Jahora Al Raqia Hotel in Saudi Arabia has been punished by authorities. Raysa International Smart Employment Services... read more
18 February 2015, Southern Poverty Law Center A federal jury in an SPLC case today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Co... read more
13 February 2015, The Jakarta Post Manpower Minister Hanif Dakhiri bid farewell on Friday to 111 Indonesian workers who will undertake apprenticeships at 45 manufacturing and construction companies in Japan. “The three-year apprenticeship is a program d... read more
27 January 2015, World Bulletin Touch Nay speaks in a barely audible whisper – a result of what she says was two-and-a-half years of abuse at the hands of her Malaysian employers. “The beating started five days after I arrived,” the 26-year-old Camb... read more
7 December 2014, bqdoha.com A businessman’s tale of how things went horribly wrong. Last year, in August, my firm was subcontracted to work on a very prominent project in Qatar. I needed slightly over 200 skilled civil workers for the project and I ... read more
28 November 2014, The World Post Qatar is signaling rejection of demands by human rights and trade union activists to grant trade union and collective bargaining rights to its majority migrant worker population with the detention and likely deportation of... read more
17 November 2014, The Daily Star Languishing in Iraqi city with insufficient food, water; ambassador says they might be sent back soon. The 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers who claim to have been abducted by some locals are still passing their days in miser... read more
10 November 2014, The Rakyat Post THERE is a taste, a smell to freedom. You and I enjoy it. Many don’t. An estimated 20-27 million people are believed to live in slavery around the world. And many of these cases are happening in Malaysia. Indian nationa... read more