news and press releases 2009

23/12/09 Call for H&M and Zara to stop using Uzbek cotton

04/12/09 Over a hundred people freed from slavery in Mexico  

04/11/09 Prison for man who trafficked girlfriend into prostitution

03/11/09 UN confirms slavery in Mauritania

02/11/09 US blueberry farms accused of using child labour

28/10/09 UK Government backs new slavery law

23/10/09 Lords vote on new UK slavery law

23/10/09 Closing trafficking team is madness, says Emma Thompson

22/10/09 Response to the Guardian article on Prostitution and Trafficking

07/10/09 Fears over MET Human Trafficking Team closure

17/09/09 Nepal backs UN attempts to make caste discrimination a human rights abuse

11/09/09 Global extent of forced labour in everyday products revealed by US

03/09/09 Roma children trafficked into life of crime across Europe

24/08/09 Malawi’s child tobacco pickers poisoned by nicotine

28/07/09 Jail for DVD pirates who used Chinese ‘slave labour’

24/07/09 Child labour found in cosmetics industry

16/07/09 Leading UK charitable organisations come together to set up Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group

26/06/09 Zimbabwe Army using forced labour in diamond fields

27/06/09 Top UK City firm founders linked to slavery

22/05/09 Awarded for exposing the African country where 1 in 5 are slaves

14/05/09 Response to Home Affairs Committee report on human trafficking

12/05/09 Backdated compensation ignores forgotten child camel jockeys

30/04/09 Time Magazine 'Top 100' award for Hadijatou

12/03/09 Clinton and Obama honour Hadijatou

10/03/09 Hidden slavery in UK cannabis factories

18/02/09 UN says governments fail to protect victims of trafficking

30/01/09 Congolese warlord on trial for recruiting child soldiers

20/01/09 Landmark High Court verdict in UK

06/01/09 Brazil rescues more than 4,500 slaves

06/01/09 Sudan accused of making thousands slaves in Darfur