UK has 100,000 modern slaves but most go undetected, study says
London, UK Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain is home to at least 100,000 modern slaves according to a new study, 10 times more than the official estimate, as activists warned 90 per cent of victims may be going undetected. Anti-slavery charity Justice and Care and thinktank The Centre for Social Justice said the real number could […]
PERU: SUPERSTITION DRIVES CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING IN MINING TOWNS
STEPHANIA CORPI, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the superstitious belief that having sex with a girl – especially a virgin – brings good luck fuels child sex trafficking in Peru’s illegal gold mining region…
Airbnb vows to tackle sex trafficking in rental homes
Thomson Reuters Foundation Short-term home rental company Airbnb said on Monday it would invest in new technology to crack down on modern slavery amid concerns that traffickers are turning its properties into “pop-up brothels” to sexually exploit vulnerable women and girls. Airbnb exclusively told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that it has teamed up with anti-trafficking […]