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14 November 2014 17 people lost their lives and millions, including children, were forced to pick cotton in the 2014 Uzbek cotton harvest in one of the largest state-sponsored systems of forced labour in the world, said the Cotton Campaign in its annual Uzbekistan cotton harvest review. According to… Keep reading »
The Modern Slavery Act is a reality. Here is everything you need to know about how it unfolded and what were the main issues with the bill. The Modern Slavery Bill was introduced in the UK Parliament in June 2014. Anti-Slavery International has been advocating for the reform of laws… Keep reading »
30 September 2014 Each year the Government of Uzbekistan mobilizes millions of Uzbek citizens to participate as forced laborers in the state-run cotton harvest. Anti-Slavery International and our partners from the Cotton Campaign, attempted to hand in a petition with over 2,700 signatures to the Uzbek embassy… Keep reading »
30 September 2014 New report: Trafficking for forced criminal activities and begging in Europe. European states fail to protect thousands of people trafficked and forced into crime, a new study by the RACE in Europe Project lead by Anti-Slavery International claims. The report, entitled simply ‘Trafficking for Forced Criminal Activities… Keep reading »
Each year the Government of Uzbekistan mobilizes millions of Uzbek citizens to participate as forced laborers in the state-run cotton harvest. Anti-Slavery International and our partners from the Cotton Campaign, attempted to hand in a petition with over 2,700 signatures to the Uzbek embassy in London but they… Keep reading »
8 September 2014 On 8 September 2014, a coalition of 10 UK retailers and seafood importers and IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative joined forces with Project Issara to launch a pilot project in Thailand to identify and address risks of human trafficking and labour abuses in their seafood supply chains. The… Keep reading »
22 August 2014 I only met Helen Bamber once: we were both doing a TV interview and chatted over a cup of tea while we waited to get called in. It started as one of those “What are you going to say?” conversations so we could avoid treading on each… 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 »
22 July 2014 The Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group (ATMG) has created an Alternative Modern Slavery Bill, to assist in the scrutiny and strengthening of the government’s Modern Slavery Bill currently before the Parliament. At present, the Modern Slavery Bill drafted by the government lacks the necessary provisions to successfully prevent… Keep reading »
103rd International Labour Conference (ILC) started in Geneva, with governments debating an update to the ILO Forced Labour Convention C29. Anti-Slavery International director Aidan McQuade addressed the delegates and urged them to agree a binding Protocol that could stand a real chance of addressing forced labour across the globe. Below… Keep reading »