The Nationality and Borders Bill1 includes damaging proposals which will impact all child victims of trafficking, including those subject to immigration control. The government’s stated intention is to improve support for child victims, but this is incompatible with their plans as set out. This is particularly important in light of official National Referral Mechanism (NRM) data that shows that more children than ever before were identified as potential victims of trafficking in 2021.
There are widespread calls for Part 5 of the Bill to be removed because it conflates responses to modern slavery and trafficking with immigration, will reduce identification and protection of all victims of trafficking including British nationals and will create a damaging two-tier discriminatory system for responses to modern slavery based on immigration status.
In June 2018, a coalition of global tech companies, civil society organizations, and international institutions jointly launched Tech Against Trafficking (TAT), a cooperative effort to support the eradication of human trafficking and in which the Glo...Read More
This paper provides a brief summary of the Roundtable on 'Combating technology-facilitated trafficking in human beings in Central Asia and across the OSCE Asian Partners for Co-operation', held by the OSCE on 27-28 April, 2021. The major objectiv...Read More
Many women and girls in Ethiopia work as domestic workers in urban cities as well as abroad, particularly in the Middle East. The conditions faced by women and girls in domestic work are well documented (see Freedom Fund 2019 and Tayah & Atnafu ...Read More
The Free2Work App 2.0, launched by Not For Sale and the International Labor Rights Forum, empowers consumers to make ethical shopping choices by providing instant access to information on companies’ efforts to eliminate forced and child labor. Wit...Read More
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