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  • Experts by experience panel [January] – paid opportunity

    Call for participants: Experts by experience workshop After Exploitation is looking for six experts by experience to feed into planned campaign work against changes to modern slavery being made through the Nationality and Borders Bill. From January 2022, we will be working with politicians and journalists to secure support for removing Part 5 of the…

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  • Statement on Nationality and Borders Bill vote (08/12)

    Statement on Nationality and Borders Bill vote (08/12)

    Today, the Nationality and Borders Bill passed its third reading, and various attempts to limit harms to trafficking survivors were rejected at report stage. This is our statement: “We are dejected after today’s vote. Even modest compromises, proposed to mitigate harm against trafficking victims, were rejected by Government in the Nationality and Borders Bill’s report…

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  • Joint letter: Climate justice coalition

    5th December 2023 – After Exploitation joins more than 125 climate, migration and human rights groups calling on UK party leaders to take action ahead of COP28. The right to move is more important than ever, particularly for people whose livelihoods and safety are threatened by climate change. The original letter is here. sign the…

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  • What is Anti Slavery Day 2021?

    What is Anti Slavery Day 2021?

    What is Anti Slavery Day? (Monday, 18th October 2021) Anti Slavery Day is backed by lots of community groups, high-profile charities, businesses, and individuals as an opportunity to highlight the scale and impact of severe exploitation. What is modern slavery? Modern slavery is when someone subjects another person to undertake forced labour, against their will,…

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  • Joint statement: ‘New Plan for Immigration’ poses risk to survivors of slavery

    This statement was originally published in Business Insider A joint statement signed by After Exploitation, Anti Slavery International, Focus on Labour Exploitation, Freedom United, Helen Bamber Foundation, Kalayaan, Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA), and Women for Refugee Women said: “We are deeply concerned that the Government intends to push forward with the ‘New Plan for Immigration’ next week, despite…

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  • New data: Majority of trafficking claims found to be ‘positive’ after reconsideration

    78% of challenged trafficking claims later found in favour of claimant 81% of reconsidered claims at initial ‘Reasonable Grounds’ stage are later positive, meaning potential survivors who should have been granted safe housing and support may have faced delays in getting help Charities condemn anticipated impact of ‘New Plan for Immigration’ on modern slavery survivors, claiming changes will make…

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  • Joint statement on detention changes

    Joint statement regarding changes to the detention of vulnerable people, made without Parliamentary scrutiny, which specialist organisations predict will result in more trafficking victms being held behind bars: “We are deeply concerned by imminent changes to detention policy – due to become law on 25 May – which will increase the number of modern slavery survivors locked…

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  • MPs have #30DaystoAct for detained trafficking victims

    MPs have #30DaystoAct for detained trafficking victims

    Stealth legislation grants new powers to detain victims “on even wider scale” o        Under new policy, passed without debate, people recognised by the Home Office as ‘potential trafficking victims’ will still be liable for detention as a result of their immigration status o        Home Office acknowledges increase in detained trafficking victims “may be an effect” of new policy passed through Parliament without scrutiny  o        Parliament’s Secondary Legislation…

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  • Survivors behind bars: Nearly 3,000 potential trafficking victims detained since 2019

    Data obtained from the Home Office, via Freedom of Information (FOI) by After Exploitation and Women for Refugee Women, illustrates continued, wide-scale detention of potential and recognised trafficking victims in prison-like settings. Since 1st January 2019 – 30th September 2020, the Home Office detained: 2914 potential victims, who have a right to “assistance and support”…

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  • Victory! Home Office data refusal is overturned

    ·         Home Office rejected Freedom of Information (FOI) request by NGO, After Exploitation, asking for immigration outcomes facing trafficking survivors ·         Director of After Exploitation, Maya Esslemont, was represented by lawyers at the Campaign For Freedom of Information at a virtual hearing on 14 December 2020. The Home Office provided two expert witnesses for proceedings. ·         The Home Office refused to…

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