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 »
Category: Blog
Read latest analysis, blogs and updates on modern slavery and solutions to tackle it from Anti-Slavery International experts, partners & guests.
“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 »
One year on: Mauritania must release jailed anti-slavery activists
11 November 2015 Anti-Slavery International joins sixteen other organisations in calling for immediate release of activists jailed a year ago Biram Dah Abeid, President of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement JOINT STATEMENT: MAURITANIA MUST RELEASE TWO PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DETAINED A YEAR AGO Mauritania must immediately… Keep reading »
Why we mark Anti-Slavery Day
18 October 2015 Jakub Sobik, Press and Digital Media Officer Today, on 18 October, we are marking the Anti-Slavery Day in Britain and Anti-Trafficking Day across the European Union. Why on earth do we need a day to mark slavery in the 21st century I hear you asking? Isn’t… Keep reading »
Britain should apologise and pay reparations for past slavery
1 October 2015 Britain should apologise for past slavery and pay reparations to reduce poverty rather than building a new prison Dr Aidan McQuade, Director Slave market in West Indies in 18th century During the Second World War thousands of Allied prisoners of war were enslaved and subject to horrendous… Keep reading »