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  • Rishi Sunak: Don’t break government’s promises to survivors of modern slavery

    The below joint letter is led by After Exploitation and supported by nearly 40 Non Government Organisations, including those led by survivors and others providing front-line support to survivors. The correspondence was sent to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on 8th December 2023. Dear Prime Minister, We write as community groups, charities and advocates, asking you…

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  • Survivor support U-turn: Our response

    On Friday 1st December, the Government confirmed it would not honour promises to ensure survivors of modern slavery could access support earlier, and for longer. Our statement: After six year wait, the government has broken its promise to survivors of modern slavery “The least survivors deserve is basic protection after making the difficult, and often…

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  • Joint letter: Respect refugee lives

    3rd October 2023 – We stand with other organisations in calling on the UK Government to clarify and reaffirm its commitment to the protection of LGBTQ+ individuals and women facing persecution under international law. We are concerned by the Home Secretary’s implication that LGBTQ+ and women refugees misuse their identities to make false asylum claims,…

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  • “Not in our name”: Joint response to Illegal Migration Bill’s royal assent

    JCWI, Women for Refugee Women, JustRight Scotland, Scottish Refugee Council, Migrants’ Rights Network, After Exploitation and City of Sanctuary are coordinating an open letter to the Prime Minister for members of the public to state their rejection of the Illegal Migration Act being passed in our name. The Government passed the inhumane asylum ban, and…

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  • Open Letter: Bibby Marine

    4th July 2023 – After Exploitation stands with more than 50 organisations and campaigners, calling on the owner of the Bibby Stockholm to acknowledge both its historic links to the transatlantic slave trade and the current safeguarding issues facing asylum seeking people due to be housed on the ship. Mr Nigel QuinnCEOBibby Marine3rd Floor, Walker HouseExchange…

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  • Sector response: “We must support, not suppress, survivors of modern slavery”

    We condemn measures proposed by the UK’s Prime Minister on Tuesday (13 December 2022), which would subject survivors of all forms of labour abuse and sexual exploitation to more scrutiny and less support. Regressive in substance, these proposals would significantly weaken the UK’s framework for identifying victims of modern slavery. Survivors of modern slavery risk…

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  • Statistics Regulator reprimands Home Office for modern slavery claims

    The Home Office has been reprimanded by the UK statistics watchdog for claiming that a rise in trafficking referrals meant that confirmed victims were ‘gaming’ the system.  In response to a sector-wide letter, voicing concerns around the Home Office’s claims, the Office for Statistics Regulation yesterday said that the available figures did not support the…

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  • Call for participation: Experts by experience workshop [paid opportunity] 

    About the project Working with After Exploitation, photojournalist Amy Romer and University of Bath academic Emma Barnes-Lewis, we are running a workshop to chronicle the shortcomings in support offered to survivors of exploitation in the UK. As part of this work, we are looking for six experts-by-experience to contribute their thoughts on what could be…

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  • CHARITY SECTOR LETTER: DON’T PUNISH SURVIVORS FOR COMING FORWARD

    [Letter downloadable here] Joint letter from 30+ NGOs to The Telegraph, in response to Modern slavery law ‘is biggest loophole’ for migrants Theresa May’s legislation exploited by criminals to escape deportation, says former minister published 17 August 2022 We are concerned by renewed attempts, as published in The Telegraph yesterday [17 August] to restrict the already basic,…

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  • Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report 2022: After Exploitation comments on UK recommendations

    The UK has been criticised in this years’ Trafficking in Persons report, issued by the US State Department, due to “measures which …observers believed would hinder victim identification and protection efforts, particularly among undocumented migrants.”  According to the report, evidence submitted to the US State Department illustrated that “long term care and reintegration support for victims were inadequate,…

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