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Food work: The workers behind our food and the exploitation they face

International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems

The new Section 301 tariffs for forced labor are vastly excessive

The Peterson Institute for International Economics

Addressing internal trafficking in persons

The Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons

Child labour in Uganda: Trends and drivers, 2012–2021

International Labour Organization

Cyber scam hubs and human trafficking

Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering

Business self-assessment tools for forced- and child-labor-free global supply chains

U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs

Reforming the Kafala system

Re:Structure Lab

Girls’ work in artisanal cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo

University of Bayreuth, Université Catholique de Bukavu

Anticipating exploitation: A futures based analysis

UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner

Trafficking in persons in Nepal

The National Human Rights Commission of Nepal

Uncovering anti-colonial bias in human trafficking research

Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices

A world of deceit: Mapping the landscape of the global scam centre phenomenon

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

From fakes to forced labour: Evidence of correlation between illicit trade in counterfeits and labour exploitation

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, The European Union Intellectual Property Office

Hiding in plain sight: Trafficking persons with disabilities for begging in Ethiopia

The Population Council, Ethiopian Lawyers with Disabilities, The Ethiopian Centre for Disability and Development

Ideas in action: Evaluation results of a pilot program tackling exploitative child domestic work in Nigeria

The Freedom Fund, NORC at the University of Chicago, The Khana Group

Supporting mutual aid: What the evidence tells us

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action

Beyond checklists and handshakes

University of Bath

2025 Trafficking in persons report

U.S. Department of State

Females who engage in online child sexual exploitation: A critical narrative review

Swinburne University of Technology, The Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health in Australia

Unconventional trafficking: Trafficking in human beings for organ removal

The University of the West of England, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Piloting the Survivor Leadership Fund: Lessons and insights from Kenya and Uganda

Beatriz Sanz-Corella, Sandra Bustamante, Yoseph Endeshaw

Placing survivor well-being on the policy and evidence map: Research report

University of Birmingham, University of Nottingham, Survivor Alliance

Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply

Tufts University, University of Nottingham

OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises on responsible business conduct

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Our work, our lives

Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women

Trafficking in persons report 2023

US Department of State

Products made with forced labor in the Uyghur region

Sheffield Hallam University’s Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice

Guidance note: Wage protection for migrant workers

International Labour Organization

What’s Changed In 10 Years?

Baptist World Aid

Legal deserts report 2.0

Avery Center, National Survivor Law Collective

Labor recruitment and human trafficking: Analysis of a global trafficking survivor database

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,International Organization for Migration

The modern slavery core outcome set

Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre

Counter-trafficking monitoring and evaluation toolkit

Winrock International, University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab

Impacts of a lack of legal advice on adults with lived experience of modern slavery

British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Unseen

Global report on trafficking in persons 2022

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Fairtrade Risk Map

Fairtrade

Survivor-centred justice for gender-based violence in complex situations

International Development Law Organization, Global Women’s Institute

Combating Cyber Violence against Women and Girls

European Institute for Gender Equality

Public procurement measures to address modern slavery

Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

The role of agents and brokers in facilitating Ethiopian women into domestic work in the Middle East

Freedom Fund, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Population Council, US Department of State

‘It has destroyed me’: A legal advice system on the brink

The Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit

The role of agents and brokers in facilitating Ethiopian women into domestic work in the Middle East

Freedom Fund, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Population Council, US Department of State

Out of the Shadows Index

Economist Impact

Global estimates of modern slavery

Walk Free, ILO, IOM

The involvement of Bangladeshi girls and women in sex work: Sex trafficking, victimhood, and agency

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The role of social protection in the elimination of child labour: Evidence review and policy implications

International Labour Organization, UNICEF

From fish to fishworker traceability in Thai fisheries reform

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Cambodia’s trafficked brides: The escalating phenomenon of forced marriage in China

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking

International Institute for Environment and Development

Human trafficking in the Afghan context: Caught between a rock and a hard place?

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Evidence from Japanese companies assessment on Human Rights Due Diligence

Business & Human Rights Centre, World Benchmarking Alliance
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