Tag: Slavery

COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain As CHOGM came to a close, Samoa rightfully basked in the resounding success for the country and people as hosts...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Amnesty International Indonesia is urging the government -- and the police in particular -- to tighten supervision of the palm oil...

By Guyon Espiner, investigative reporter, RNZ In Depth New Zealand Labour MP Louisa Wall has accused China of harvesting organs from political prisoners among the...

RNZ Pacific A new report has found that tuna fishing companies in the Pacific are doing little to stop slavery on their boats. The canned tuna...

By Richard M. Nanua and Royson Willie in Port Vila Vanuatu's Magistrates Court has remanded a Bangladeshi couple over what is alleged to be the...

By Rahul Bhattarai An allegedly “enslaved” Indonesian fisherman on board Yu Shun 88, a Taiwanese flagged tuna longliner, has now been repatriated from Fiji to...

By Lynda Chanwai-Earle of RNZ National Two flags fly proud over the inaugural steelband festival in Auckland’s Silo Park, flapping in a brisk late summer...

By Euan Black in Jakarta An Indonesian woman who worked in Saudi Arabia for 22 years has been paid for the first time after being...

Former slaves head for home: Thousands of fishermen rescued from brutal conditions on foreign fishing boats make the journey back home, many after years...