Women and slavery on International Women’s Day 8 March 2016 Blog Sarah Mathewson analyses how widespread discrimination against women makes them extra vulnerable to exploitation and slavery, based on the West Africa example.
Lack of protection for trafficking victims with children in the UK 1 March 2016 Blog The ATMG reports that victims of trafficking who are pregnant or have children have been ‘systematically overlooked’ by the British authorities.
Trafficking victims pregnant or with children systematically overlooked 23 February 2016 News Press release: Trafficking victims with children are ‘systematically overlooked’ in the UK
Domestic workers change employers for protection not for immigration 23 February 2016 Blog Domestic workers change employers to protect themselves from exploitation and abuse, not to stay in Britain
“I don’t trust you, but please look after my children” 19 February 2016 Blog Nay El Rahi on tackling exploitative and abusive culture among employers of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon.
Development and the abolitionist movement in history 11 February 2016 Blog Historian Richard Huzzey explains how linking abolition to development has brought mixed results.
Satisfaction for workers, success for activists, shame for the Czech police 19 January 2016 Blog Klára Skrivánková on the verdict in the infamous ‘tree workers’ case.
La Casa de Panchita turns child domestic workers’ lives around 18 January 2016 Blog Blanca Figueroa on the daily struggles of supporting child domestic workers in Peru’s capital, Lima.
Summary of Uzbek cotton harvest 2015 20 November 2015 Blog Leah Sullivan, Cotton Crimes Project Officer, 20 November 2015 Mass system of forced labour in Uzbekistan's cotton industry was in full swing again and acivists harassed on unprecedentent scale.
You can’t walk away while still handcuffed 13 November 2015 Blog Kate Roberts, Head of Policy at Kalayaan, analyses the disastrous effects of tied Overseas Domestic Workers' visas on the migrant domestic workers