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Recent reports

Recent reports by Humphrey Hawksley for the BBC, YaleGlobal Online, Asian Affairs, and  Nikkei Asian Review.

Can Slavery End?

11th June 2014

For the first time in 84 years, the International Labour Organization (ILO) will this week decide on reforms to its convention on forced labour. This is a global practice in which millions of workers live in a form of modern slavery. This is a global practice in which millions of workers live in a form […]

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Vietnam is no easy target for China

29th May 2014

China’s recent decision to force a showdown with Vietnam in waters around the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea tempers an argument that has gained momentum in recent months — that is, with the growing assertiveness of Russia in Ukraine and China in East Asia, a weakening U.S. is being challenged by increasingly confident […]

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Ukraine crisis

20th March 2014

Russia’s annexation of Crimea has led some to wonder whether any other former Soviet countries could follow. The separatist region of Trans-Dniester has already offered itself to Moscow – a request which Russia has promised to consider. “It’s been getting much worse in the past few months,” said a mother of two who didn’t want […]

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Bricks

4th January 2014

Humphrey Hawksley reports from the brick kilns of India where more than two million people feed the booming construction sector and economic miracle by working in conditions campaigners describe as ‘slavery.’ Their work goes into building the skyscrapers, offices and call centres, but the bricks they make are now being condemned as blood bricks. India […]

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Sugar

3rd March 2013

Guatemala in Central America has one of the worst records of violence, corruption and treatment of workers. Humphrey Hawksley travels through the country asking why the European Union is now  giving it new trade privileges. BBC’s Our World – Guatemala’s Sweet Deal

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Gold

12th May 2012

Humphrey Hawksley goes to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to investigate the link between minerals, war and business. These are the raw materials used in our every day lives for computers, phones and household appliances. Humphrey asks if a little-known American law might force a change to how multi-national companies do business in […]

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Cotton

19th January 2012

Globalisation has brought the world’s goods to the west. But how can consumers be sure they are buying food and clothing manufactured without harming workers – especially children? Humphrey Hawksley travels to the cotton fields and factories of India and discovers rampant abuse and child labour. India’s exploited child cotton workers

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Chocolate

10th November 2011

For years, the chocolate industry knew their raw products were farmed in unacceptable conditions – using slavery and children. Humphrey Hawksley first exposed the cocoa scandal more than a decade ago. Returning again to the Ivory Coast, he finds children taken from their parents and forced to harvest cocoa with little evidence that chocolate makers […]

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More reports

Asia could give UK the post-Brexit win it needs

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United States of Asia

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The Quad – Is this the alliance to check Chinese expansion?

David Foster hosted Humphrey on a TRT Roundtable discussion together with Jagannath Panda (Manohar … [Read More...]

Impact Journalism – Holding government and business to account

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Foreign powers back in Asia

The array of nations lined up behind the US sends an unequivocal message that China’s time has not … [Read More...]

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