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UK To Address Backlog Of Modern Slavery Cases Amid 50 Million Globally Trapped
- Sunday October 20, 2024
- World News | Edited by Nikhil Pandey
The UK Government has announced the recruitment of 200 additional Home Office staff to address a backlog of 23,300 modern slavery cases inherited from the previous administration.
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US Supreme Court Tosses Slavery Case Against Cargill, Nestle USA
- Friday June 18, 2021
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The US Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit on Thursday against Cargill and Nestle USA that accused the food giants of aiding and abetting slavery by using cocoa harvested from plantations in the Ivory Coast that used forced child labor.
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Fishermen 'Kept Like Slaves' In Taiwan
- Wednesday September 20, 2017
- World News | Agence France-Presse
A group of foreign fishermen in Taiwan were locked in tiny windowless rooms around the clock to stop them escaping while not at sea, prosecutors said in the island's latest abuse case involving migrant workers.
- www.ndtv.com
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Guatemala Convicts Ex-Officer, Paramilitary In Slavery Case
- Saturday February 27, 2016
- World News | Associated Press
In a historic ruling, a Guatemalan court on Friday convicted a retired army officer and a former paramilitary for the sexual enslavement of women during the country's civil war. It sentenced them to 120 years and 240 years in prison respectively.
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One of two suspects in UK slavery case from India: police
- Saturday November 23, 2013
- World News | Associated Press
UK police say the two suspects in a major slavery case are from India and Tanzania and came to Britain in the 1960s.
- www.ndtv.com
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Two freed on bail in Britain's '30-year slavery' case
- Friday November 22, 2013
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Two people accused of holding three women captive in a London house for 30 years were released on bail on Friday, as Britain struggled to come to terms with its worst case of modern-day slavery.
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Two freed on bail in British '30-year slavery' case
- Friday November 22, 2013
- World News | Agence France-Presse
British police have released two suspects on bail after they were arrested in connection with the case of three traumatised women who allegedly spent 30 years as slaves, Scotland Yard said Friday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Case registered against doctor-couple who locked up teen
- Friday April 6, 2012
- Delhi News | Reported by Tanima Biswas, written by Ajanta Krishnamurthy
Locked up for three days in a second-storey highrise in Dwarka's Sector 6 allegedly by a doctor-couple on a six-day vacation in Bangkok, the girl's cries from her balcony alerted the neighbours. They had the gumption to call the officials of Shakti Vahini, an NGO, to rescue her with the help of police and fire personnel.
- www.ndtv.com
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UK To Address Backlog Of Modern Slavery Cases Amid 50 Million Globally Trapped
- Sunday October 20, 2024
- World News | Edited by Nikhil Pandey
The UK Government has announced the recruitment of 200 additional Home Office staff to address a backlog of 23,300 modern slavery cases inherited from the previous administration.
- www.ndtv.com
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US Supreme Court Tosses Slavery Case Against Cargill, Nestle USA
- Friday June 18, 2021
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The US Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit on Thursday against Cargill and Nestle USA that accused the food giants of aiding and abetting slavery by using cocoa harvested from plantations in the Ivory Coast that used forced child labor.
- www.ndtv.com
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Fishermen 'Kept Like Slaves' In Taiwan
- Wednesday September 20, 2017
- World News | Agence France-Presse
A group of foreign fishermen in Taiwan were locked in tiny windowless rooms around the clock to stop them escaping while not at sea, prosecutors said in the island's latest abuse case involving migrant workers.
- www.ndtv.com
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Guatemala Convicts Ex-Officer, Paramilitary In Slavery Case
- Saturday February 27, 2016
- World News | Associated Press
In a historic ruling, a Guatemalan court on Friday convicted a retired army officer and a former paramilitary for the sexual enslavement of women during the country's civil war. It sentenced them to 120 years and 240 years in prison respectively.
- www.ndtv.com
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One of two suspects in UK slavery case from India: police
- Saturday November 23, 2013
- World News | Associated Press
UK police say the two suspects in a major slavery case are from India and Tanzania and came to Britain in the 1960s.
- www.ndtv.com
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Two freed on bail in Britain's '30-year slavery' case
- Friday November 22, 2013
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Two people accused of holding three women captive in a London house for 30 years were released on bail on Friday, as Britain struggled to come to terms with its worst case of modern-day slavery.
- www.ndtv.com
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Two freed on bail in British '30-year slavery' case
- Friday November 22, 2013
- World News | Agence France-Presse
British police have released two suspects on bail after they were arrested in connection with the case of three traumatised women who allegedly spent 30 years as slaves, Scotland Yard said Friday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Case registered against doctor-couple who locked up teen
- Friday April 6, 2012
- Delhi News | Reported by Tanima Biswas, written by Ajanta Krishnamurthy
Locked up for three days in a second-storey highrise in Dwarka's Sector 6 allegedly by a doctor-couple on a six-day vacation in Bangkok, the girl's cries from her balcony alerted the neighbours. They had the gumption to call the officials of Shakti Vahini, an NGO, to rescue her with the help of police and fire personnel.
- www.ndtv.com