Unfree labour

The US Constitution bans enslavement or involuntary servitude except as a form of criminal punishment

At the beginning of 2019, Sofia Municipality together with the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings will open a crisis centre for child victims, with a capacity for 10 children, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova said at a conference on human trafficking and cybercrime, Focus News Agency reports.

Aссording to the Turkish newspaper Yeni Akit, the United States has deployed 600 troops in the international coalition's base in At-Tanf in Syria, adjacent to the Iraqi border.

More than 150 million children, or nearly one in 10 globally, are victims of forced labor and progress in reducing that number has slowed, a leading United Nations' anti-slavery group said on Sept. 19.

40.3 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. This is a new global study by the United Nations International Labor Organization and the Walk Free Foundation, published today.

Romania and Bulgaria are among the European Union countries most vulnerable to modern slavery, a new report has warned.

The Modern Slavery Index 2017, released by the UK-based Verisk Maplecroft risk analysis consultancy, puts Romania and Bulgaria among the top five countries in the European Union at highest risk of modern slavery together with Greece, Italy and Cyprus.

The European Union recorded the largest increase in slavery of any world region in 2017, with the arrival of more than 100,000 migrants, many of them extremely vulnerable to exploitation, analysts said on Thursday.

A group of strawberry pickers from Bangladesh has won a case against Greece at Europe’s highest human rights court, after being shot at by employers for demanding unpaid wages.

Albania is the main supplier nation of potential victims of modern slavery in the United Kindom, according to data from the National Referral Mechanism, NRM, the UK's framework for referring and supporting victims.

Albania supplies the highest number once the number of adult and children potential victims of modern slavery are combined, the NRM explained.

Forced to pick cotton, grow cannabis, prostitute themselves, fight wars or clean up after the wealthy, some 35.8 million people are currently trapped in modern-day slavery, a new report said Nov. 17.