News 2001
20/12/01 Nepal officials' violence deepens bonded labour crisis
10/12/01   Actions fall short of Human Rights Day aims
03/12/01   Millions of slave labourers casts shadow over UN day
23/11/01   Unions blacklist 250 companies for doing business with Burma
30/10/01   Sudan Government responds to Anti-Slavery report
24/10/01   Sudan Government responds to Anti-Slavery report
16/10/01   US chocolate industry agrees to end forced labour on cocoa farms
26/09/01   Nepal officials destroy 200 workers' homes
13/09/01   Caste gains international attention at the World Conference
04/09/01   West resists calls for reparations at World Conference Against Racism
30/08/01   Slavery case in Florida results in convictions
22/08/01   International attention focuses on the legacy of the slave trade
13/08/01   Slave labour on the increase in China
07/08/01   Bonded children rescued in India
31/07/01   UK Government hosts meeting to discuss how to tackle slave labour
23/07/01   President of Nigeria calls for more attention to be paid to slavery
16/07/01   US condemns 23 countries for not tackling trafficking in persons
09/07/01   Worldwide vigils protest India's stand on caste
27/06/01   US trafficker sentenced for eight years and fined $2 million
19/06/01   New Global Report condemns UK for using child soldiers
11/06/01   Police arrest Benin 'slave ship' organiser
01/06/01   Children rescued from camel jockey traffickers
16/05/01   Traffickers arrested in Benin
04/05/01   Governments agree task force on cocoa slavery
01/05/01   Trafficked children were on Benin 'slave ship'
18/04/01   Benin 'slave ship' reveals West Africa's child trafficking problem


12/04/01   UK police trained to help forced marriage victims
04/04/01   Child domestic labour brings rights activists to London
23/03/01   Trafficking laws need human rights focus
09/03/01   EU declares battle against human trafficking a priority

06/03/01

 

   Chinese school children killed making fireworks
02/03/01   Hague tribunal declares sexual slavery a war crime
25/01/01   Sudan militiamen seize 122 women and children
12/01/01   Freed bonded labourers seize land in Nepal
11/01/01   Speeches from the 2000 Anti-Slavery Award ceremony
08/01/01   International call on Nepal Government to save freed slaves
05/01/01   2000 Anti-Slavery Award winner calls for dialogue: speech in full