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Rooney Family Gets 79 Years in Landmark Slavery Case

According to an article in The Independent, members of the Rooney family, who were leaders of a slavery ring in Lincolnshire, are [...]

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UK to Forcibly Remove Trafficking Victim Who Fears He Will be Killed

The UK government is coming under fire for its “outrageous” treatment of trafficking victims who are being deported in [...]

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The Blurry Indicators of Sex Trafficking

With every major sporting event in the United States comes the speculation that the Super Bowl, the Final Four, and the like are [...]

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Thirty potential modern slavery victims referred to Home Office each day

There’s been a surge in the number of potential victims of modern slavery in the UK. In just three months, the Home Office has [...]

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Lift The Ban: U.K. government could raise £98 million per year

Lift The Ban’s new report released this week calls for the U.K. to use common sense and grant all people seeking asylum the right to [...]

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New U.K. policy will put trafficking survivors at increased risk of suicide

New U.K. policy will put trafficking survivors at increased risk of suicide

The U.K. Royal College of Psychiatrists (RSP) have released a report this week calling on U.K. MPs not to detain trafficking and [...]

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A child escaping marriage in Mexico draws attention to child trafficking

A child escaping marriage in Mexico draws attention to child trafficking

Arrest and jail-time should never be the response to a vulnerable child escaping marriage. Yet this is exactly what happened to [...]

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U.K. Rwanda deportation flight stopped by legal action

The first flight sending people seeking asylum in the U.K. to Rwanda was stopped by a last-minute intervention from the European Court [...]

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Slaughterhouse found guilty of migrant teen’s death fined $200,000 

. TheA Mississippi meat processing plant, Mar-Jac Poultry, was found responsible for the death of a 16-year-old migrant worker who [...]

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Theresa May: Awareness, Support for Victims Key to Ending Modern Slavery

Theresa May said today, “Modern slavery will only be defeated by making more people aware of the horrific abuses going on in [...]

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UK Home Office Broke the Law in Failing to Protect Trafficked Vietnamese Boy

In a landmark ruling, the Court of Appeal has ruled that the UK Home Office broke the law in failing to protect a Vietnamese child [...]

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Chinese Woman Wrongfully Detained in Yarl’s Wood

The UK is admitting that it wrongfully detained a Chinese woman who was a victim of human trafficking, locking her up for six months in [...]

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UK government’s treatment of trafficking victims ruled unlawful

The High Court of Justice in London has ruled that the British government has been acting unlawfully in its treatment of victims of [...]

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Displaced women and girls face surge in forced marriage & trafficking amid pandemic

A new report has warned that displaced women and girls are facing surging rates of gender-based violence during the ongoing coronavirus [...]

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U.K. ignores survivors, campaigners, MPs with destructive policy

U.K. ignores survivors, campaigners, MPs with destructive policy

This week, the U.K. parliament voted to push forward with legislation that will see more trafficking survivors locked up for longer in [...]

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Let people seeking asylum work, says U.K. Migration Advisory Committee

The United Kingdom should lift the employment ban for people seeking asylum, according to the government’s migration advisory body.   [...]

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One child seeking asylum goes missing per week from U.K. hotels

Charities are extremely concerned for the wellbeing of children seeking asylum in the U.K. after the government revealed that 45 [...]

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Renewable energy sector failing to address Uyghur forced labor

A recently published investor guide and policy brief on green technology supply chains found that more proactive strategies are needed [...]

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Some Modern Slavery Victims Find Joy in Belly Dancing

Belly dancing?  That may strike some readers as a surprise. But in this article in the Independent today, we learn that trauma causes [...]

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Second-Ever Forced Marriage Conviction Sends Parents to Jail for 8 Years

A couple from Leeds has been jailed for 8 years for forcing their teenage daughter to marry. They tricked their daughter into [...]

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Epidemic of Girls Sexually Abused by County Lines Gangs

Stacey (not her real name) was 13 when she was “passed around like a minion” by male members of a gang. As one of the [...]

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UK pushing people back into exploitation as they wait years for decision

New data obtained by the Scottish Refugee Council shows the number of potential victims of slavery in the UK waiting more than two [...]

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Support for U.K. trafficking victims allegedly cut during pandemic

Lawyers have warned that hundreds of trafficking survivors in the United Kingdom have found themselves with reduced or terminated [...]

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The government needs to do more to protect victims of human trafficking

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