11 November 2015 Anti-Slavery International joins sixteen other organisations in calling for immediate release of activists jailed a year ago Biram Dah Abeid, President of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement JOINT STATEMENT: MAURITANIA MUST RELEASE TWO PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DETAINED A YEAR AGO Mauritania must immediately… Keep reading »
Analysis: Slavery Denial and other ways to discredit the Anti-Slavery movement, writes Sarah Mathewson How can the government of Mauritania continue to deny the existence of slavery, a practice that apparently affects many thousands of people in the country? Indeed, while the stories we hear from escaped slaves reveal that slavery… Keep reading »
19 June 2015 The Council of Europe Trafficking Convention: Magna Carta of rights of trafficked persons. By Klara Skrivankova, Europe Programme and Advocacy Co-ordinator Pete Pattisson On Tuesday the 10th anniversary of the Council of Europe Trafficking Convention was marked in Strasbourg. I was honoured to… Keep reading »
18 May 2015 Press release ‘The mask has slipped again’ say Anti-Slavery International about Qatar’s efforts to improve workers’ rights Anti-Slavery International today said that Qatari government’s moves to improve the worker’s conditions is just a PR exercise and nothing more after BBC crew investigating workers’ right were arrested and… Keep reading »
1 May 2015 US Secretary of State urged to keep pressure on Thailand for anti-trafficking response. Human rights organisations, including Anti-Slavery International, Walk Free, Humanity United, Environmental Justice Foundation, Greenpeace USA and others urged US Secretary of State to maintain Thailand on Tier 3 of the upcoming Trafficking in Persons… Keep reading »
“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 final version of the… Keep reading »
30 September 2014 New report: Trafficking for forced criminal activities and begging in Europe. European states fail to protect thousands of people trafficked and forced into crime, a new study by the RACE in Europe Project lead by Anti-Slavery International claims. The report, entitled simply ‘Trafficking for Forced Criminal Activities… Keep reading »
New report: Widespread abuse of Nepalese migrant domestic workers in Lebanon a direct consequence of the systems in place in both countries. 7 May 2014 New research looking at the vulnerabilities to widespread abuse of Nepalese migrant domestic workers in Lebanon rooted directly in the systems in place… 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 »
13 June 2013 UK Criminal Justice System is losing its fight against trafficking New report of Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group A third report by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group (ATMG) entitled ‘In the Dock’ examines the effectiveness of the UK’s Criminal Justice System’s (CJS) response to trafficking in… Keep reading »