3rd September 2025

Weekly News Roundup

Featured Reports

US Department of State: State Department Releases 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report, 30th September 2025.

The Guardian: Delayed US report on global human trafficking is released, 30th September 2025.

Greenpeace: US soft on human trafficking in new report, 30th September 2025.

UN Regional Information Centre for Western Europe: Modern forms of slavery: 28 million people into forced labour and 138 million children working, 2nd October 2025.

United Kingdom and Ireland

Free Movement: Briefing: is the modern slavery identification system in the UK being misused? 29th September 2025.

The Grocer: Is the food and drink industry doing enough to tackle modern slavery? 30th September 2025.

Mountford Chambers: Baniulyte – Modern Slavery Defence and the Limits of Anonymity, 30th September 2025.

Law Society Gazette: Ireland still ‘tier two’ in US trafficking report, 1st October 2025.

Europe

  • European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation: International human trafficking ring rolled up in Albania and Colombia. Read more.


  • EUROPOL: 17 suspected human traffickers arrested in Albania and Colombia. Read more.


  • Luxembourg: GRETA carries out its fourth evaluation visit to Luxembourg. Read more.


  • Russian Federation: Iraqi man convicted for trafficking people to fight for Russia in Ukraine. Read more.

Asia and Oceania

  • ASEAN: Secretary-General of ASEAN holds virtual meeting with the Chair of the Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. Read more.


  • Indonesia: 'Modern slavery': Indonesians in clutches of scam syndicates. Read more.
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