All the latest news, press releases, advocacy and blogs from Anti-Slavery International.
1 April 2010 Anti-Slavery International is concerned that changes to the structure of London’s Metropolitan Police will result in less protection for trafficking victims. Today, the highly successful but now disbanded Met Police Human Trafficking team hands responsibility on the issue of trafficking over to the SCD9 Human Exploitation and… Keep reading »
25 March 2010 BBC Panorama has uncovered child slavery and child labour on Fairtrade certified cocoa farms in Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire that supply cocoa to Cadburys and Nestle. The investigative news programme indentified trafficked children within the Kuapo Kokoo cooperative in Ghana, which supplies Fairtrade cocoa to Cadburys. Panorama… Keep reading »
3 March 2010 Children as young as ten years old are being forced to take part in dangerous camel races in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), new photos released today by Anti-Slavery International can reveal. The photos show children racing at the Sweihan camel race track and even show a… Keep reading »
3 February 2010 The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced a $12 billion (£7.5 billion) deal with Cosan, one of the world’s largest ethanol and sugar producers, despite claims that the Brazilian company used slave labour. On 31 December Cosan was included in the Brazilian Labour Ministry’s slave labour… Keep reading »
12 January 2010 A Channel 4 News investigation has uncovered the trafficking of Mexican women and children to the US. The trade was revealed by Maria (not her a real name), a woman who had been held captive by human traffickers for four months. Maria was only 16 years… Keep reading »
11 January 2010 The two days of rioting in Rosarno, in the Calabria region of southern Italy, have revealed fruit pickers in conditions of slavery, according to the International Organisation for Migration. The rioting by dozens of migrant workers followed attacks on 7 January by local residents on African farm… Keep reading »
23 December 2009 Anti-Slavery International and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) are demanding that high-street giants H&M and Zara stop selling clothes made with cotton from Uzbekistan, a country where around half of all cotton is picked by forced child labour, following an investigation that links Uzbek cotton to products… Keep reading »
4 December 2009 Mexican police have rescued 107 indigenous people held in forced labour at a factory in Mexico City disguised as a drugs rehabilitation centre. Twenty three suspects were arrested following a raid by police on Thursday 3 December. A further two more were arrested the following morning. The… Keep reading »
3 November 2009 Slavery persists in Mauritania despite the criminalisation of the practice in 2007, according to a UN independent expert. Speaking at the end of her fact-finding mission to the North African country, Gulnara Shahinian, the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, said: “There are all forms… Keep reading »
2 November 2009 An ABC News investigation has discovered children as young as five years old working on blueberry farms in Michigan, USA. The farms were supplying blueberries to Wal-Mart, the biggest US retailer, as well as top grocery chains Kroger and Meijer. All three retailers have suspended buying produce… Keep reading »