Healthcare/ Pharmaceuticals

There are several touch points of human trafficking and forced labour in the healthcare and pharmaceuticals industry. Human trafficking in the healthcare and pharmaceuticals industry may for example occur for the purpose of organ trafficking. In 2007, WHO estimated that out of all transplants worldwide, 5–10% were conducted illegally. Also at a high-risk for labour exploitation and modern slavery is the private aged-care sector. Reports from the sector have shown that migrant workers are often exposed to abusive and exploitative working conditions and recruitment practices.

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World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2023
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This year’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends provides a comprehensive assessment of current decent work deficits and how these have been exacerbated by multiple, overlapping crises in recent years. It analyses global patterns, regional differences and outcomes across groups...

Using Civil Litigation to Combat Human Trafficking : Federal Human Trafficking Civil Litigation – 2021 Data Update
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In October 2003, Congress passed a law allowing trafficking victims to recover civil damages from their traffickers in federal courts, 18 U.S.C. § 1595, now known as the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). In the almost twenty years since...

Special Issue – Anti-Trafficking Education
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01 September 2021

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for anti-trafficking education and the range of educators who shape how the public and institutions understand and respond to human trafficking. The aim of this Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking...

COVID-19 and Modern Slavery: A Research Response
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COVID-19 represents a large and sudden exogenous shock to the world. The pandemic itself and the measures being undertaken to slow its pace and effect have short, medium, and long-term impacts on the problem of modern slavery. We have formulated...

The Public Health Impact of Coronavirus Disease on Human Trafficking
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Written by Jordan Greenbaum, Hanni Stoklosa, and Laura Murphy. The global pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus exacerbates major risk factors for global human trafficking. Social isolation of families and severe economic distress amplify the risk of interpersonal violence,...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
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This publication provides an overview of the epidemic of modern slavery and human trafficking, surveys some of ways that these challenges have been negatively transformed by COVID-19, and explores how approaches rooted in principles of computational law can help educate...

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