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04 August 2015 Slavery included in UN development goals: Great news for people in slavery and good victory for Anti-Slavery International By Dr Aidan McQuade, Director The pending inclusion of slavery as a target in the post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a victory for a long campaign… Keep reading »
27 March 2015 “Big step in the right direction but deficiencies leave us – and victims of modern slavery – wholly unsatisfied” Photo: Protest outside of the Parliament demanding protections for overseas domestic workers Anti-Slavery’s Europe Programme and Advocacy Co-ordinator Klara Skrivankova analyses the Modern Slavery Act The… 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 »
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 »
3 February 2014 Steve McQueen becomes a patron of Anti-Slavery International to help end modern slavery. The director of the award winning film ’12 Years a Slave’ Steve McQueen announced his patronage for Anti-Slavery International. Anti-Slavery is delighted to announce that Steve McQueen has become a patron of Anti-Slavery… Keep reading »
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 a letter… Keep reading »
28 March 2011 Over a hundred people marched on the Ministry of Agriculture in Prague on Sunday 27 March to demand justice for hundreds of migrant forest workers forced to work without pay on state owned forests. Campaigners from the Initiative for Migrant Workers Rights and Initiative Against Racism called… Keep reading »
18 October 2010 From Christmas decorations in China, T-shirts in India and tobacco in Malawi, the shocking range of everyday items produced through slavery can be seen for the first time on a new interactive website from Anti-Slavery International: www.productsofslavery.org. Launched for the UK’s inaugural Anti-Slavery Day (Monday 18… 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 »
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 »