The data
Every case on SlaveryMap, drawn from public sources and shown with its location deliberately generalized to protect survivors.
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United States
Micronesian couple brought an 18-year-old relative to the US with promises of education, then forced her into domestic servitude and hard labor while withholding her documents. Accused: Edk Kenit and Choimina Lukas of Longview, Washington.
South Korea KR
A Cambodian migrant agricultural worker testified that they worked 11-hour days while receiving pay for only eight hours, lived in greenhouse accommodation for six years, and faced deductions for housing and insurance. The worker reported approximately ₩10 million in unpaid wages and described wider exploitation of migrant agricultural workers.
Singapore
Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers recruited through agencies charging excessive fees creating debt bondage. Rest days denied Accused: Licensed and unlicensed recruitment agencies.
Thailand
Human Rights Watch documented systemic forced labor aboard Thai fishing vessels, interviewing 248 current and former fishers, mostly from Myanmar and Cambodia, who described confiscated documents, 14+ hour days, and confinement at sea for months. Accused: Thai fishing vessel owners and captains.
United States
A couple hired workers from India through false job ads promising good wages, then forced them into unpaid domestic labor in their home, physically abusing them and threatening consequences if they tried to leave. Accused: Satish Kartan and Sharmistha Barai of Stockton, California.
Japan
Vietnamese workers in Technical Intern Training Program placed in seafood processing instead of promised training. Excessive hours garnished wages confiscated passports Accused: Japanese company and Vietnamese broker.
United Kingdom GB
Vietnamese migrants smuggled into the UK, many by small boat, often arrive owing large debts to smuggling gangs. An ITV News investigation found some working illegally in nail salons, while those with the largest debts are forced into cannabis farming: one man who borrowed £20,000 from loan sharks said he was locked inside a cannabis house for a year and never paid.
Nepal NP
Nepali girls and women, often lured by relatives or acquaintances, are trafficked across the open border to India and sold to brothels. Maiti Nepal rescued 30 Nepali girls and women from India in one year.
United Kingdom
Saudi diplomat's domestic worker held on diplomatic visa. Passport confiscated worked around the clock slept on kitchen floor Accused: Saudi diplomatic family.
Cyprus CY
Women, primarily from Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, are subjected to sex trafficking in Cyprus, including in bars, pubs, coffee shops, massage parlors and cabarets. Some are recruited through false promises of marriage or work as barmaids or hostesses.
France
West African teenager promised education instead forced to cook and clean from 5am to midnight. No pay no schooling Accused: French-Ivorian family.
Cambodia
Malaysian citizens rescued from cybercrime compounds. Lured with fake job ads passports confiscated forced to run scam call centers Accused: Chinese-run criminal operations in casino compounds.
United States
Farm labor contractor ran criminal enterprise compelling Mexican H-2A workers into forced labor across five states Accused: Owner of farm labor contracting company.
Qatar QA
A Guardian investigation found that more than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka died in Qatar in the decade after it won the right to host the World Cup, with widespread reports of forced labor under the kafala sponsorship system.
Italy IT
A Chinese-run leather goods manufacturer exploited Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrant workers, making them work up to 14 hours a day for just over €3 per hour producing handbags.
Lebanon LB
A 23-year-old Ghanaian domestic worker was found dead in a car park beneath her employers' fourth-floor home in Beirut's southern suburbs in March 2020, hours after messaging an activist group for help with the abuse she said she was suffering. Her death is part of a pattern of abuse of migrant domestic workers under Lebanon's kafala system.
United States US
A 16-year-old Mexican worker recruited through a church youth program died on a Nashville construction site in 2020. His family's attorney alleged that the construction company engaged in human trafficking by recruiting young Mexican men for hazardous work, in violation of child labor laws.
Brazil BR
Brazilian labor inspectors rescued 39 enslaved workers from an illegal gold mine in the northern state of Pará, where they lived in open sheds without drinking water. The mine was run by an owner already on Brazil's "dirty list" of employers using slave labor, and it was the third raid on one of her operations.
United States US
An 11-day FBI-led operation ahead of Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, from January 23 to February 2, 2019, led to 169 arrests, including 26 traffickers and 34 people attempting to engage in sex acts with minors. Nine juvenile sex trafficking victims were recovered, the youngest 14, and nine adult victims were identified.
United States US
From 2009 to 2019, a woman in Cicero, Illinois, helped at least ten undocumented Guatemalan immigrants enter the US illegally, then forced them to work to pay off debts she demanded, threatening them with deportation and separation from their children.
Colombia CO
Colombian authorities arrested 18 people, including hotel owners, police and a navy captain, in a sex trafficking ring that recruited girls aged 14 to 17 and sold them to tourists in Cartagena, exploiting more than 250 women and girls.
Senegal SN
Human Rights Watch and the Platform for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights documented the deaths of 16 talibé children in 2017 and 2018 from beatings, neglect or endangerment in Quranic schools in Senegal, and abuses in 8 of the country's 14 regions. Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 100,000 talibé children are forced by their teachers to beg daily, with quotas often enforced by beatings.
Ghana GH
IJM Ghana and Ghanaian police rescued 24 boys, the youngest seven, who had been forced to work in the fishing industry on Lake Volta, after months of joint work to identify suspected traffickers on the lake.
United States US
A Miami man tricked at least six women into traveling from Cuba to the US through Mexico to work as "dancers", then forced them to work in Miami strip clubs and as prostitutes. He used threats, assaults, a firearm and debt bondage to control them, and threatened their families.