Federal jury in SPLC case awards $14 million to Indian guest workers victimized in labor trafficking scheme by Signal International and its agents

Mexican Megafarms Supplying U.S. Market Are Rife With Labor Abuses

Forced labor in Mexico supplying US produce under the label, "Product of Mexico".

"[Richard] Marosi [LA reporter] says a lot of the blame lies with firms that project an image of social responsibility or tote their many badges of certifications from labor groups. In reality, they are not actually enforcing their standards."

The 12-by-12-foot rooms at Campo San Jose each house as many as six people, who sleep on concrete bunks nightly for months at a time. A restful night is hard to come by, as light and the sounds of crying babies and loud music spill over from adjoining rooms. Thieves jump the partitions and pilfer food, and rats scurry on the steel slats.

Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times

2014 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws

Witness: The “Innocent” Human Trafficker

Ethiopian migrants outside the Migrant Response Centre in Haradh, May 2013.

© 2013 Michael Kirby Smith

Can technology help combat the modern slavery business?

Inside the Scarily Lucrative Business Model of Human Trafficking

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House Tackles Human Trafficking

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