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50 million people are living in conditions of modern slavery — a 25% rise over the last five years, says a new report. According to it, the Group of 20 nations are contributing to this increase, as their trade operations and global supply chains allow for human rights abuses. 

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Game in which users were able to buy and sell enslaved people, removed from Google Play store on Wednesday, elicits horror

The Australian Federal Police received a tip-off from a health worker.

It is alleged Chee Kit Chong and wife Angie Yeh Ling Liaw exercised coercive control over the woman, limited her movements and physically assaulted her at their home in Melbourne's south-west for 10 months in 2022.

The UK is ranked at number 145 worldwide, out of a total of 160 countries, for prevalence of modern slavery.

Australia imports more than $25 billion in goods that may have used modern slavery, and for the first time solar panels are one of the most valuable, according to a human rights group funded by Andrew Forrest.

Several hundred documents and items giving the details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire is being added to UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” register

Moe Turaga never expected to end up enslaved in a rural Australian town when he left Fiji as a teenage boy to earn a living for his family.