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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Slaveholder descendants fund Guaranteed Income Program in reparations effort

A guaranteed income program in the U.S. is making waves by addressing the one family’s legacy of slavery. Launched in Louisiana [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sean Combs at 60th Annual Emmy Awards, Nokia Theater, Sept. 21, 2008

From global music legend to modern slavery charges – the downfall of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs

*Trigger warning: story includes mention of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. American rapper, record executive, and entrepreneur [...]

In Plain Sight: Modern Slavery on UK’s High Streets

Modern slavery occurs in Britain more than you might think, and it may be hiding in plain sight, from nail salons to car washes. If [...]

Coerced into Crime, UK Throws Trafficked Women in Jail

In breach of the Modern Slavery Act, female victims of human trafficking are being unlawfully held in prisons across the UK, jailed for [...]

Will Raising Marriage Age to 18 Stop Forced Marriages?

MPs are currently debating whether or not to raise the minimum legal age of marriage in the UK to 18 in a quest to prevent 16-and [...]

UK anti-slavery chief calls for child trafficking to be dealt with locally

In an interview with The Independent this week, the UK’s anti-slavery commissioner called for an overhaul of Britain’s approach to [...]

Fair recruitment is key to protecting migrants from trafficking

U.K. ministers urged to change policy that facilitates exploitation of overseas domestic workers

Government ministers in the U.K. are being urged to change a 2012 policy that removed the rights of holders of overseas domestic worker [...]

Filipina worker kept in modern slavery conditions in Australia

New data shows trafficking survivors consistently failed by U.K.

Hundreds of trafficking survivors are being wrongfully turned away by the U.K. government and denied the support they are entitled to. [...]

Migrant domestic workers continue to suffer during the U.K.’s third lockdown

How modern slavery charges harm sex workers

Sex workers in the U.K. are facing raids, arrests and prosecution under modern slavery charges for working together to protect [...]

U.K.’s survivor support system ‘at breaking point’

The Independent reports how trafficking survivors in the U.K. are being left without crucial support and vulnerable to re-trafficking [...]

U.K. government embraces “trafficker’s dream” policies, detaining child migrants

The U.K.’s Labour government is facing backlash over its proposed border security bill, which retains key elements of [...]