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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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U.K. imposes GPS tags on migrants on immigration bail

U.K. immigration bill harmful to modern slavery survivors

A new report by the U.K.’s cross-party parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has criticized the Home Secretary’s controversial [...]

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Trafficking victims could be sent to Rwanda because of flawed screening process

Lawyers have raised the alarm over the possibility of trafficking victims being sent to Rwanda by the U.K. government to have their [...]

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Red Roof Inn ignored trafficking signs for profits

According to an investigation by The Independent, sex trafficking survivors are poised to file hundreds of lawsuits against Red Roof [...]

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World Cup 2022: Qatar’s Workers Treated Like Slaves

Imagine that you are living in rural Bangladesh when an acquaintance in your town approaches you with a job offer to work abroad in a [...]

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UK Nets 185 Convictions for Modern Slavery

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says during the 2017-2018 financial year it convicted 185 people for modern slavery out of 239 [...]

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MPs Speak Out Against Throwaway Fashion

A cross party group of MPs in Britain are calling for fashion companies to be charged one penny per garment to help fund clothing [...]

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Amnesty for undocumented migrants scrapped

In a move that has sparked concerns amongst anti-slavery campaigners in the UK, the government this month scrapped a proposal to give [...]

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UK Home Office U-turns after slashing support for trafficking survivors

The UK Home Office has reversed its decision to unlawfully slash financial support for survivors of modern slavery during the pandemic [...]

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To speak out about slavery in Mauritania is to risk losing your liberty

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Lone children seeking asylum going missing in U.K. at risk of exploitation

Data collected in an investigation by the Independent has exposed that 20 lone children seeking asylum went missing from government [...]

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U.K. statistics regulator says “no evidence” modern slavery law being abused

The U.K. Statistics Regulator has released a statement announcing that they have not found evidence to support the Home Secretary [...]

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Modern slavery survivors in U.K. denied compensation by government

New data shows that the U.K. government’s program for victims of violent crime and modern slavery is failing to help those it was [...]

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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

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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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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