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Wednesday, February 8

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Taking a Local Approach to Fight Slavery

Recent estimates have put the number of victims of slavery in the UK around 10,000-13,000. While victims may be trafficked to the UK [...]

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The Reason Why Thousands of British Girls Will Not Return to School

The number of girls in Britain being forced into marriage abroad has soared by a third in recent years according to a leading charity. [...]

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Should Teachers Be Liable for Reporting Forced Marriages?

The National Education Union, Britain’s largest teachers’ union, is condemning a proposal that would make teachers [...]

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Law proposed to lift ban on asylum seekers’ right to work

In a promising step forward for our Lift the Ban campaign, a bill to grant people seeking asylum in the UK the right to work was [...]

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Further warnings of modern slavery risk in UK post-pandemic economic slump

The leader of a prominent UK anti-slavery charity had delivered the latest warning that human trafficking threatens to increase amid [...]

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Forced labor allegedly used to build Hindu temple in New Jersey

Forced labor allegedly used to build Hindu temple in New Jersey

A shocking new lawsuit has claimed that at least 200 workers were lured from India to the United States to build a Hindu temple in [...]

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Lebanon slavery case - kafala

Potentially groundbreaking case against Lebanon’s kafala system

A migrant domestic worker is taking her former employer and a recruitment agency to court in a landmark case which could be [...]

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Police raids exposed for not referring trafficking survivors for support

New data has exposed how police raids on the sex industry in the U.K., carried out under the guise of clamping down on modern slavery, [...]

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Libya’s Slave Markets: ‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’

The world has woken up to the reality of Libyan slave markets, where African migrant men are sold off for forced labor to the highest [...]

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Labour Accuses May of ‘Hollow’ Modern Slavery Pledges

The Labour party is accusing Prime Minister Theresa May of making ‘hollow’ promises to tackle modern slavery during her [...]

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Uganda Shelter for Abused Girls Linked to Child Sex Tourism

A 70-year-old German man in Uganda is being chased by police over allegations that a rehabilitation center at his home was actually the [...]

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Survivors like Awais stuck in limbo in UK

In a moving account of the challenges faced by modern slavery victims in the UK, an Afghan survivor told The Independent of the [...]

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Financial monitoring

Less than half of U.K. bank specialists know how to recognize human trafficking

With their ability to monitor financial transactions, banks and other financial institutions are one of the most important players in [...]

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Investigation finds widespread mistreatment of modern slavery survivors by police

Investigation finds widespread mistreatment of modern slavery survivors by police

A concerning new report by police watchdogs in the U.K. has confirmed campaigners’ fears that many modern slavery victims in the [...]

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A child trafficking survivor’s plea to the U.K. government

A child trafficking survivor’s plea to the U.K. government

A child trafficking survivor has made an appeal to the United Kingdom’s government to scrap Part 5 of the harmful Nationality and [...]

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U.K. government delays appointing slavery watchdog while weakening protections

The U.K. government is attempting to weaken protections for modern slavery victims while failing to appoint a new Independent [...]

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Audit Finds UK Modern Slavery Strategy ‘Inadequate’

The National Audit Office (NAO) has issued a report calling the UK government’s modern slavery strategy “unclear” and “inadequate” in a [...]

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Mauritania: Risking Liberty in the Fight Against Slavery

Biram Dah Abeid was abruptly woken by police at 5:30AM, dragged from to a squalid, windowless prison cell in Mauritania. Yet he [...]

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No Charges for Activist Who Rescued Migrants in Mediterranean

Morocco has dropped trafficking charges against Helena Moreno, a Spanish activist who helped rescue migrants crossing the Mediterranean [...]

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Record number of UK asylum seekers waiting over six months for decision

The number of asylum seekers in the UK waiting over six months for their claim to be processed soared by 76 percent last year, new [...]

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Asylum seekers in the U.K. only receive legal support days before deportation

New research has highlighted how asylum seekers arriving in the U.K. on makeshift boats are not receiving legal advice until days [...]

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G7 calls on Chinese government to respect human rights in Uyghur Region

G7 calls on Chinese government to respect human rights in Uyghur Region

The G7 has issued a cautious rebuke of the Chinese government’s actions in the Uyghur Region in a final communiqué closing its [...]

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U.S. begins blocking solar materials produced in Uyghur Region

Uyghur forced labor and global solar supply chains

The Independent reports on the ongoing impact on U.K. consumers of the 2021 research “In Broad Daylight: Uyghur Forced Labor and [...]

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

U.K. laws making it harder for trafficking victims to receive support come into force

New laws in the U.K. that make it even harder for trafficking and modern slavery victims to receive crucial support have come into [...]

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