World Bank – stop financing Uzbek forced labour
A new report documents state-led forced labour in Uzbekistan's 2015 cotton harvest Keep reading »
Category: Blog
Read latest analysis, blogs and updates on modern slavery and solutions to tackle it from Anti-Slavery International experts, partners & guests.
Women and slavery on International Women’s Day
Sarah Mathewson analyses how widespread discrimination against women makes them extra vulnerable to exploitation and slavery, based on the West Africa example. Keep reading »
Lack of protection for trafficking victims with children in the UK
The ATMG reports that victims of trafficking who are pregnant or have children have been ‘systematically overlooked’ by the British authorities. Keep reading »
Domestic workers change employers for protection not for immigration
Domestic workers change employers to protect themselves from exploitation and abuse, not to stay in Britain Keep reading »
“I don’t trust you, but please look after my children”
Nay El Rahi on tackling exploitative and abusive culture among employers of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. Keep reading »
Development and the abolitionist movement in history
Historian Richard Huzzey explains how linking abolition to development has brought mixed results. Keep reading »
Satisfaction for workers, success for activists, shame for the Czech police
Klára Skrivánková on the verdict in the infamous ‘tree workers’ case. Keep reading »
La Casa de Panchita turns child domestic workers’ lives around
Blanca Figueroa on the daily struggles of supporting child domestic workers in Peru’s capital, Lima. Keep reading »
Summary of Uzbek cotton harvest 2015
Leah Sullivan, Cotton Crimes Project Officer, 20 November 2015 Mass system of forced labour in Uzbekistan's cotton industry was in full swing again and acivists harassed on unprecedentent scale. Keep reading »
You can’t walk away while still handcuffed
Kate Roberts, Head of Policy at Kalayaan, analyses the disastrous effects of tied Overseas Domestic Workers' visas on the migrant domestic workers Keep reading »