Freedom for 20,000 people as Nepal abolishes bonded labour practice 9 September 2008 Blog 9 September 2008 Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organisation, welcomes the decision by the government of Nepal to free 20,000 people in slavery by abolishing the local bonded labour practice of ‘haliya‘. The organisation also calls for official…
Next generation of abolitionists called for on first UK annual slavery memorial day 22 August 2008 Blog 22 August 2008 The 23 August 2008 is the UN’s International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition and marks the UK ‘s first annual slavery memorial day. The Transatlantic Slave Trade was one of the…
Indian bonded labour activists arrested 18 September 2007 Blog 18 September 2007 Punjab authorities arrested Jai Singh, director of Anti-Slavery International’s partner Volunteers for Social Justice (VSJ), and around 100 bonded labourers for demonstrating against bonded labour. They were charged on 9 September with disturbing the peace as they…