All the latest news stories and campaign updates from Anti-Slavery International.
24 January 2014 ‘Bolivia should not lower the minimum employment age’ Anti-Slavery and partners tell the president Bolivia is currently considering reducing the minimum employment age to 12. Anti-Slavery International and its partners, Global March Against Child Labour and Human Rights Watch, have sent… Keep reading »
4 December 2013 Qatar FIFA World Cup slavery continues despite new evidence and growing pressure. The exploitation and forced labour of migrant workers in Qatar in the run up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup continues as new evidence of widespread abuse comes to light. An extensive report by Amnesty… Keep reading »
28 November 2013 2013 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan with use of forced labour on big scale. Review of the 2013 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan released by the cotton campaign. The Uzbek government again systematically forced children and adults to pick cotton and farmers to produce state-established quotas of cotton… Keep reading »
10 September 2013 Statement from the cotton campaign on the start of the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan The 2013 cotton harvest is underway in Uzbekistan. The Uzbek Cotton Industry Association “Uzkhlopkoprom” estimates a total harvest of 3.35 million tons, making Uzbekistan the 6th largest cotton producer and… Keep reading »
18 April 2013 H&M takes steps to stop complicity in Uzbek Forced labour In response to our campaign and the hundreds of emails sent by Anti-Slavery supporters, H&M moved to take some steps to limit the risk of its products being linked to modern-day slavery. H&M now requires direct… Keep reading »
15 March 2013 The recent occupation of northern Mali by separatist and Islamist groups left people of slave descent, many of whom are still in slavery, extremely vulnerable, but Anti-Slavery partners Temedt can play a vital role in re-establishing stability. As the poorest and most marginalized in society, people of… Keep reading »
With a month to go before the Olympics, prospective workers are being warned of the dangers of forced labour in London and especially of falling foul to false promises of jobs related to the Games. Speaking at the Passage, a homelessness organisation based in Victoria, London, at 11am… Keep reading »
People are being forced against their will to produce everything from Christmas decorations in China to pornography in Russia and shrimp in Thailand, according to a major new report by the US Department of Labor. The report, The Department of Labor’s List of Goods produced by Child Labor or… Keep reading »
16 July 2009 Anti-Slavery International is one of the leading UK non-governmental organisations to set up a new Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group, which aims to ensure that presumed trafficked persons in the UK can access their rights. The group seeks to understand the impact on presumed trafficked persons of the first… Keep reading »
22 May 2009 SOS Esclaves have been awarded the 2009 Anti-Slavery Award for nearly 15 years of fighting slavery in Mauritania, a country where an estimated 18 per cent of the population, or 600,000 people, are born and continue to live in slavery. Receiving the award on Wednesday 27 May… Keep reading »