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Human trafficking is exploitation through force, fraud, or coercion for labor, services, or commercial sex.

Labor exploitation includes abusive conditions, wage theft, coercion, unsafe work, debt bondage, and restrictions on movement or choice.

Forced labor occurs when people are made to work through threat, coercion, debt, fraud, or abuse of vulnerability.

Modern slavery is an umbrella term for severe exploitation, including forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, and trafficking.

Supply chain slavery describes severe labor abuses hidden behind products, subcontractors, raw materials, and global production systems.

Ethical purchasing is the practice of considering worker dignity, sourcing, environmental impact, and accountability when buying goods.

A practical research workflow for checking company claims, sourcing risk, public reports, and worker-centered evidence.

Low prices, opaque suppliers, recruitment fees, rapid subcontracting, and weak remediation can all indicate elevated labor risk.

Visual learning

1Map

Identify product, material, supplier, and country clues.

2Verify

Compare company claims with credible independent sources.

3Ask

Name unanswered questions and request worker-centered evidence.