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Modern slavery is all around us, often hidden in plain sight. People can become enslaved making our clothes, serving our food, picking our crops, working in factories, or working in houses as cooks, cleaners or nannies. Victims of modern slavery might face violence or threats, be forced into inescapable debt, or have their passport taken away ...
We resist modern slavery for all people whose freedom is withheld. Become a member of Anti-Slavery International and you will resist too. With your regular gift, you will help dismantle systems of abuse and exploitation, push to change laws and arm people with their rights. Spot the signs. Slavery isn’t as obvious as it used to be, so we ...
12,727 potential victims of modern slavery – the highest number of referrals since the records began in 2009. 43% of all of these were children – meaning there were 5,468 potential child victims. 31% of people referred were British nationals. In 2021, criminal exploitation was the most common form of slavery in the UK, followed by forced ...
Like many forms of modern slavery, bonded labour flourishes where corruption, poverty and discrimination are common. Limited access to justice, education and jobs for discriminated groups make it difficult for them to get out of poverty. Debt bondage is the most common form of slavery, sometimes known as bonded labour or debt slavery.
Credit Jonathon Moore Photography. Forced labour is a global problem and can take many forms. According to the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery (2022) from Walk Free, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration, 27.6 million people worldwide are trapped in forced labour, including 17.3 million people in forced labour exploitation in the ...
Freedom is a fundamental right for everyone, everywhere, always. But it can’t be taken for granted: modern slavery keeps around 50 million people worldwide from exercising their freedom – with children representing 1 in 4 people trapped in slavery.. At Anti-Slavery International, we work to end slavery so that everyone can live free from exploitation.
Credit: Jonathan Moore. Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud, coercion or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit. What trafficking really means is people groomed and forced into sexual exploitation; people tricked into accepting risky job offers and ...
Of these, the Global Estimates of Modern Slavery demonstrate that 1.4 million of the 17.3 million people in forced labour in the private sector, are exploited in domestic work. Some domestic workers migrate from other countries or regions, mainly from rural areas to the city. For many migrants, domestic work is one of the very few options ...
Anti-Slavery International forms part of a movement to secure freedom for people in, or vulnerable to, modern slavery. We push to change the legal, political, social and economic systems that allow people to become enslaved so that people can live free from fear of being cruelly exploited.
Child slavery. Child slavery is when a child is handed over and exploited for someone else’s gain, meaning the child will have no way to leave the situation or person exploiting them. Child trafficking. Trafficking involves transporting, recruiting or harbouring people for the purpose of exploitation, using violence, threats or coercion.
