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Slavery News Weekly: 15 March 2018

March 15, 2018 / Media, Slavery News Weekly The Freedom Fund / @freedom_fund

Each week the Freedom Fund compiles the most insightful and timely news stories about modern slavery.

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Check out what we’re reading in this week’s roundup of top slavery articles.

Tricked and trapped: Inside the Rohingya trade
Al Jazeera, 13 March 2018
After escaping violence in Myanmar, Rohingya women find themselves still vulnerable in Bangladesh’s refugee camps. Hidden behind closed doors in the sprawling camps, many continue to be exploited and abused.

‘Sisters’ help women sex trafficked from China flee U.S. massage parlours
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 12 March 2018
Growing numbers of advocates are finding innovative ways to overcome cultural and language barriers to help trafficked women forced to sell sex in massage parlours across the United States.

Survivors of Human Trafficking, in Their Own Words
The Atlantic, 12 March 2018
The Atlantic published three first-person accounts of women who came to America looking for a better life, but instead found astonishing cruelty.

Florida lawmakers vote to ban marriage under the age of 17
Huffington Post, 11 March 2018
Florida may soon have one of America’s strictest child marriage laws after state lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill barring marriage for those under the age of 17.

Pregnant modern slaves face ‘shocking’ danger
BBC News, 8 March 2018
A quarter of women rescued from modern slavery in the UK are pregnant and facing “shocking” levels of danger and deprivation, says a charity. Hestia, which runs safe houses, says pregnant women can escape or be abandoned by traffickers and left without any healthcare.


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