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This World Cotton Day, our Business and Human Rights Policy and Research Officer, Rocio Domingo Ramos, and our International Advocacy Officer, Cara Priestley, provide an overview of the cotton harvest in Turkmenistan – Central Asia. In this blog, they explain… Keep reading »
Today marks the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. This day is focused on countering contemporary forms of slavery, such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking. In September this year, the new Global Estimates of Modern Slavery were released by Walk Free, the International… Keep reading »
Sian Lea and Rocio Domingo Ramos from the Business and Human Rights team discuss the proposed EU regulation to ban forced labour products and introduce our model law. Image credit: Alexandre Lallemand, via Unsplash. On 14 September 2022, the European Commission published a proposal for a law that… Keep reading »
In the latest blog, Ruslan Myatiev, founder of Turkmen.news, details the latest findings from the Turkmen cotton harvest. Image credit: em_concepts via Shutterstock. Every year, thousands of people in Turkmenistan are forced into the fields to pick cotton. Despite campaigning and public pressure, the 2021 cotton harvest in Turkmenistan was… Keep reading »
London Fashion Week 2022 is here and whilst the world celebrates high end fashion, Georgina Russell, Fundraising and Communications Assistant, sheds light on the need to ensure that fashion isn’t being delivered at the cost of human rights. Image credit: Catwalk Photos, via Shutterstock. This week marks London Fashion… Keep reading »
At Anti-Slavery International, we’re calling on the UK government to introduce a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act. We believe that consumers should have assurances that the products they’re buying have not been made with forced labour. We believe that the government should create a corporate duty to conduct… Keep reading »
It’s a new year and here at Anti-Slavery International, we’ve been reflecting on all the great achievements over the last year. In 2021, thanks to your generous support, we supported a staggering 17,880 people across 21 projects in 10 countries, including Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Tanzania.* Here are some… Keep reading »
As the annual cotton harvest commences and Turkmenistan marks Independence Day on 27 September, business and human rights policy and research officer, Rocio Domingo Ramos, sheds light on the continued practice of forced labour in the country’s cotton industry. Picture by Marianne Krohn, via Unsplash. The 2021 cotton harvest… Keep reading »
At any given time, 16 million people are estimated to be in forced labour in the private sector. That’s more than one in every 500 people. Workers across all industries – construction, agriculture, fashion, electronics, mining, cleaning, hospitality and many other more. This is an injustice that is not… Keep reading »
A blog by Ruslan Myatiev, Editor of Turkmen.news, on how you could help to discourage businesses from using cotton tainted by human rights abuses in Turkmenistan Cotton – image by Nancy Yang, via Unsplash The 2020 Turkmenistan cotton harvest has recently come to an end. Turkmenistan, a Central… Keep reading »