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Press release U.S. decisions on Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in Trafficking in Persons report supports state-sponsored forced labour and fails victims. UZBEKISTAN The U.S. government upgraded the Uzbek government’s ranking in its 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report despite noting that “government-compelled forced labour of adults remains endemic.” The unwarranted decision… Keep reading »
18 May 2015 Press release ‘The mask has slipped again’ say Anti-Slavery International about Qatar’s efforts to improve workers’ rights Anti-Slavery International today said that Qatari government’s moves to improve the worker’s conditions is just a PR exercise and nothing more after BBC crew investigating workers’ right were arrested and… Keep reading »
Trafficked people have the right to recover damages from their traffickers irrespective of their immigration status, Supreme Court ruled after intervention from Anti-Slavery International. In a landmark judgment on the first ever modern slavery case heard by the Supreme Court, the Court unanimously ruled that… Keep reading »
8 April 2014 New Modern Slavery Bill must focus on victims say MPs. Anti-Slavery International welcomes the findings of the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on the Draft Modern Slavery Bill after its report stressed the focus of the Bill needs to shift toward the victim protection in order to effectively… Keep reading »
Modern Slavery Bill draft fails the victims of slavery says Anti-Slavery International. 16 December 2013 The draft Modern Slavery Bill, published today, does not address the protection of victims, says Anti-Slavery International. The organisation says that this element is not only a fulfilment of the legal right of a victim… Keep reading »
UK Anti-trafficking response fails victims of trafficking says report by Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group. Failures of the UK’s system to identify, protect and assist victims of trafficking has been highlighted by the new report by Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group. The report describes how the focus on the… 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 »
25 February 2013 Ten international organisations called on ministers of labor around the world to ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention to protect the rights child domestic workers. The coalition sent a joint letter released today. The International Labour Organization’s convention, has been adopted in June 2011 to protect the… Keep reading »
The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labour of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign (of which Anti-Slavery International is a member) released the Review of the 2012… Keep reading »
11 October 2012 European governments must confiscate the assets of traffickers to fund compensation for victims to keep them safe from re-trafficking, say the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and the Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in… Keep reading »