Anti-Slavery - Anti-Slavery

Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. We work at local, national and international levels to eliminate the system of slavery around the world by:

Urging governments of countries with slavery to develop and implement measures to end it;
Lobbying governments and intergovernmental agencies to make slavery a priority issue;
Supporting research to assess the scale of slavery in order to identify measures to end it;
Working with local organisations to raise public awareness of slavery;
Educating the public about the realities of slavery and campaigning for its end.

Anti-Slavery International's work is divided among three teams: Programme, Communication and Information, enabling us to work effectively towards achieving our goal of a slave-free world. See below for a list of staff.

Programme
The Programme Team works with partner organisations around the world to collect information on the issues central to our work: debt bondage, forced labour, forced marriage, the worst forms of child labour, human trafficking and traditional slavery. The Programme Team publishes this information and works through international bodies in order to promote laws to protect those exploited by these practices.

Communication
The Communications Team comprises campaign, education and press officers who produce action briefings, educational materials, and our quarterly magazine the Reporter, to inform both the public and policy makers about slavery issues around the world. Anti-Slavery International lobbies national governments, the United Nations and the European Union to adopt policies which will help to bring about the end of all forms of slavery. Anti-Slavery International's reference library and archive also forms part of this team. It contains books, reports, journals, photographs, lantern slides, microfilm, videos and press cuttings that date from the early days of the abolitionist movement through to the present.

Fundraising
The finances raised from the public, charitable trusts, foundations, governments, the European Union and other institutions are critical to our ability to work towards the elimination of slavery. See donations for more detail on how to help.

Programme Team
Programme Team Manager – Meghan MacBain
Africa Programme Coordinator– Asim Turkawi
Africa Programme Coordinator– Romana Cacchioli
South Asia Programme Coordinator– Krishna Prasad Upadhyaya
Child Labour Coordinator– Catherine Turner
Supply Chain Project Coordinator – Joanna Ewart-James
Trafficking Programme Coordinator– Klára Skrivánková
Programme Assistant – Kathryn Baer

Communications Team
Communications Team Manager – Mike Kaye
Education and Advocacy Officer – Michaela Alfred-Kamara
Press Officer – Beth Herzfeld
Publications Officer – Becky Shand
Website Co-ordinator and Librarian – Jeff Howarth
Communications Officer – Gemma Wolfes
Outreach Officer – Angelina Osborne
Campaigns Officer – Kate Willingham

Fundraising Team
Fundraising Team Manager – Yvonne Lane
Statutory Fundraising Officer – Rod Leith
Fundraising Assistant – Jenny Knight
Trust and Major Donor Officer – Catherine Perez Phillips
Database Implementation Manager – Mark Campbell
Direct Marketing Officer – Peter Flynn
Statutory Fundraising Assistant – Charlie Miller

Finance Team
Finance Manager – Martin Hubbard
Accountant – Kebreab Terfe

Administration Team
Office Manager – Mariela González
Administration Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator – Jakub Sobik

Email contact
The email address of Anti-Slavery International staff is their first initial followed by a dot and then their surname followed by @antislavery.org, e.g. a.name@antislavery.org

Working for Change
Anti-Slavery International's work has produced real change. Throughout the
last century, the organisation was involved in many successful campaigns,
such as those to stop the abuse of rubber workers in the Belgian Congo and
the use of child slaves -- Mui Tsai -- in Hong Kong. In the 21st century,
our success continues:

In 2003, following the first national survey of slavery in Niger, which we conducted with our local partner Timidria, the Government introduced a new law against slavery with sentences of 30 years in prison for offenders. Within six months of this measure over 200 slaves were freed.
In 2002, after years of pressure from Anti-Slavery International working with local organisations in Nepal, the Government passed a law declaring bonded labour illegal.
In 2001, we launched a campaign against human trafficking, which has successfully raised awareness among decision makers and the public and led to increased action to end this modern-day slave trade.
In 2000, Anti-Slavery International initiated a new programme with local partners in six West African countries to end the cross border trafficking of children, leading to the first anti-trafficking network of its kind in the region.

Free the Slaves -- our sister organisation
In 2001, Anti-Slavery International trustee Dr Kevin Bales founded Free the Slaves, Anti-Slavery International's sister organisation in the United States. Through this relationship we work together in order to have a greater impact in ending slavery. Launched with the support of Anti-Slavery International, the two organisations work independently but maintain close links. We share similar aims and operating principles and have common methods of working against all forms of slavery.

Both organisations base their work on the fundamental principles that all people have the right to be free from any form of slavery and are able to assert this right. They share a respect for the dignity, diversity and views of all people involved in the struggle for the eradication of slavery and the belief that all people exploited by slavery should have the opportunity to realise their full potential.

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