Case Studies
Vulnerable Migrant Workers
Exploitation of vulnerable workers is a major problem in Australia. Migrant communities are at heightened risk of exploitation given the range of economic and linguistic vulnerabilities…
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Debt Bondage Payouts
For some time ACRATH has been concerned about migrant workers in the rubber glove industry in Malaysia. Along with St Vincent’s Health Australia and other…
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Slavery Exists in Australia
The ABC recently ran an article on Modern Slavery in Australia, which featured Aranya’s story (name changed for privacy) of modern slavery for sexual exploitation…
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Supporting women and Girls
In 2021 the theme for the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (31st July) was Victim Voices Lead the Way. To mark this day the…
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Domestic Servitude Conviction
A Melbourne husband and wife who held a woman in slavery in their home for eight years have been jailed. This is the first time…
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2021 TIP Report
In releasing the 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, siad: “This year’s Trafficking in Persons Report sends a strong…
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Exposing Modern Slavery
Due to Covid-19 restrictions the 2021 ACRATH National Conference was held as an online event over three weeks. The theme for the final session of…
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Carer Kept as Slave
A Sydney couple have pleaded guilty to charges of forced labour and harbouring a person. In court it was revealed the couple paid for a…
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Victory for Migrant Workers
Migrant workers in Top Glove rubber glove factories in Malaysia will be remediated with respect to recruitment fees previously paid by the migrant workers to…
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Rubber Glove Industry During Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has meant unprecedented demand for rubber gloves. Consequently manufacturers are recording enormous increases in profit. However for the worker little has changed.…
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Survivor of Trafficking into Australia Dies
Ning’s Story ACRATH mourns the death of Ning on Friday 16 May 2014 after a long illness. Ning had been trafficked into Australia as a…
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Under Age and Forced Marriages in Australia
Coercing Someone to Marry is a Crime It has been alleged that an iman married a 12 year old girl to a 26 year old…
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Three Charged with Labour Trafficking
Three People Arrested in Sydney Australian Federal Police have arrested and charged three members of a Filipino-Australian family for their alleged trafficking and exploitation of four…
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Teenagers Put Names on Airport Watch Lists
Girls as Young as 14 Forced to Marry Overseas Girls as young as 14 are being forced to go overseas to marry older men and…
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Slavery Here in Australia
Woman Held in Domestic Servitude The Saturday AM program on ABC Radio has reported that a Filipino woman who was held in domestic servitude is…
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Prostitutes likened to AFL draftees in trial
The Age Kate Hagan April 24, 2009 A BARRISTER acting for a man accused of bringing five Thai women to Melbourne as sex slaves has…
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Gold Coast pimp jailed for forcing women to be sex slaves
A GOLD Coast hairdresser who forced two Thai women into sexual slavery to pay off debts to violent loan sharks has been jailed for five…
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Slave ‘owner’ get 8 years
A Weipa man who repeatedly raped a Filipina woman he used as a slave has been jailed for eight years. His wife was jailed for…
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Restaurateur cleared of slave claims
A Blue Mountains restaurateur accused of forcing an Indian chef to work in conditions of forced labour has been cleared of exploitation charges. But…
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Worker scandal widens
The Courier-Mail Lachlan Heywood, Jason Gregory and Michael Corkill October 18, 2006 ROGUE Queensland bosses may be exploiting hundreds of foreign workers brought in to…
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