"Our next discussion is on 10 January, when Charlotte Jamieson, Modern Slavery and Exploitation Coordinator for Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster, will join us to explain how to detect signs of modern slavery, and what to do if you suspect somebody is at risk. For those working in advocacy roles or directly with people whose […]

"Our next discussion is on 10 January, when Charlotte Jamieson, Modern Slavery and Exploitation Coordinator for Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster, will join us to explain how to detect signs of modern slavery, and what to do if you suspect somebody is at risk. For those working in advocacy roles or directly with people whose […]

This event will explore the meaning - for legal standards, policy, and law enforcement - of using a negative framework (‘modern slavery’) that emphasises extreme forms of exploitation society aims to abolish, compared with a positive framework ('decent work'), one emphasising more ideal notions of how work should look like. Modern slavery comprises the worse […]

While past approaches to preventing human trafficking have relied heavily on "carceral solutions" (such as increased policing, arrest, and incarceration), a holistic approach to preventing human trafficking can take a broader view. What are the societal beliefs that normalize the exploitation of labor and maltreatment of children? What do communities need to be safer and […]

The Home Office has recently announced plans to reopen Campsfield House and Haslar as Immigration Removal Centres, increasing the number of people that can be detained at any given time by 33%, at a cost of £399 million to the taxpayer. This expansion of the detention estate undoes years of progress in reducing the number […]

This is a hybrid event – you can attend online or in person in London. Agenda: 12- 12.55: Light nibbles/ Lunch Welcome – 12.55 – Inner Temple (Edwina Koroma) 1- 2pm Keynote speaker: Nicholas Griffin KC (with Sian Lea, ASI) Nicholas Griffin QC is a barrister and member of QEB Hollis Whiteman whose practice covers […]

"Please join the Wage and Hour Division's Southeast Region for our second annual roundtable conversation with federal, state, and local organizations to discuss Labor Trafficking in the Agriculture Industry. This event follows several indictments related to trafficking in the Southeast's Agriculture Industry. Topics of discussion will include: common indicators of trafficking in agriculture, how to […]

On February 1, 1865 Abraham Lincoln signed a joint House and Senate resolution that would later be ratified as the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment which proclaimed, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, […]

Saket Soni, a Delhi-born labor organizer, was in his late 20s and working in New Orleans when he began to receive mysterious calls from inside a heavily guarded Mississippi work camp. He knew immediately that the callers were in crisis. But he could not have imagined they were caught up in one of the largest […]