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Have you heard Maya’s story? She was trafficked into a scam compound and is being forced to carry out scams under threat...
05/10/2026

Have you heard Maya’s story?

She was trafficked into a scam compound and is being forced to carry out scams under threat of violence.

Maya is fictional, but the exploitation is real.

We can’t let this go on. Together, we can expose the exploitation, demand action and help protect people from modern slavery.
Forced labour in scam centres is becoming a global crisis.

Hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have been forced into online criminality across Southeast Asia and beyond.

💙 Donate to our urgent appeal on our website today to help combat this growing crisis: https://www.antislavery.org/urgent-appeal-trapped-behind-the-screen-2/?utm_source=Meta&utm_medium=Paid%20ads&utm_campaign=Online%20Scam%20Centres

This Black History Month, we're spotlighting organisations like S O S-Esclaves Mauritanie that have been fighting tirele...
01/10/2026

This Black History Month, we're spotlighting organisations like S O S-Esclaves Mauritanie that have been fighting tirelessly to end slavery for good.

Co-founded in 1995 by Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane and the late Boubacar Ould Messaoud, SOS Esclaves is one of Mauritania’s first organisations dedicated to exposing and ending slavery.

Speaking openly about slavery carried enormous risks. Yet under Boubacar’s leadership, SOS Esclaves pushed relentlessly for legal reform. The organisation played a central role in the criminalisation of slavery in 2007, bringing international attention to an issue long hidden from view.

🔗 Visit SOS Esclaves' page to learn more about their work: https://www.facebook.com/sosesclavesmauratanie #

25/09/2026

25 September 2026 marks the centenary of the 1926 Slavery Convention.

100 years on, 99 States have ratified the Convention. The Convention required countries to prevent slave trade in their waters, and abolish laws that allowed for enslavement.

But what did the Convention mean, in reality, for the abolition of slavery? And why is it that 50 million people are still in slavery today, 100 years after the Convention?

This cannot be a symbolic commemoration when the de facto prohibition of slavery remains incomplete. It must be a turning point and a defining global moment for accountability, political commitment, and corporate responsibility.

🔗 Read our Centenary blog to learn more about the 1926 Slavery Convention: https://www.antislavery.org/latest/100-years-of-the-1926-slavery-convention/

A job opportunity. A good salary. The chance to build a future. For some people, that promise becomes a trap. They acce...
21/09/2026

A job opportunity. A good salary. The chance to build a future.

For some people, that promise becomes a trap.

They accept what appears to be a legitimate job, only to be trafficked into an online scam centre.

Their passport may be taken. They may be held against their will and forced to scam people online.

If they refuse, they can face threats, violence, punishment or further trafficking.

Will you join us in exposing this new modern slavery crisis?

💙 Donate to our urgent appeal today to help combat this growing crisis: https://www.antislavery.org/urgent-appeal-trapped-behind-the-screen-2/

The September London Fashion Week begins today. But behind the glitz and glam, we must also remember what is often hidde...
17/09/2026

The September London Fashion Week begins today. But behind the glitz and glam, we must also remember what is often hidden behind our favourite clothes: forced labour.

Garment production is one of the world's biggest and most labour-intensive manufacturing industries. Exploitative and extractive business practices are common in many fashion companies, from fast fashion to luxury brands.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

This Fashion Week, let's think forward to a better world, where the fashion industry is free from modern slavery, because forced labour is never in fashion.

🔗 Share this article with a friend to spread the word: https://www.fashionrevolution.org/the-hidden-cost/

15/09/2026

Today, the Immigration and Asylum Bill returned for its committee stage in Parliament. The Bill is a missed opportunity to improve the UK’s efforts to prevent modern slavery and support survivors.

As the centenary of the 1926 Slavery Convention approaches, we ask the UK Government, instead of this Bill, how about progressing towards a world free from slavery by committing to a Modern Slavery Act 2027 that promotes responsible business, supports survivors and aligns our laws with our values as a society?

🔗 Read the latest from Anti-Slavery International’s CEO on what we actually need to take concrete steps toward ending modern slavery: https://www.antislavery.org/latest/we-dont-need-whats-in-the-immigration-and-asylum-bill-we-need-action-on-modern-slavery/

Have you, or has someone you know, ever received a phone call from an unrecognised number asking for your bank details, ...
14/09/2026

Have you, or has someone you know, ever received a phone call from an unrecognised number asking for your bank details, offering a vague promotion, or encouraging you to invest in cryptocurrency?

The person calling you might be in a situation of forced labour and forced criminality.

People from 66 countries have been identified among trafficking victims taken into scam centres. Traffickers exploit the vulnerabilities that individuals already face, like poverty, limited access to decent work, or displacement.

But together we can expose this exploitation.

💙 Donate to our urgent appeal today to help combat this growing crisis: https://www.antislavery.org/urgent-appeal-trapped-behind-the-screen-2/?utm_source=Meta&utm_medium=Paid%20ads&utm_campaign=Online%20Scam%20Centres

11/09/2026

📢 Today, Anti-Slavery International delivered a video statement at the UN Human Rights Council, addressed to the new Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms and slavery and trafficking in persons, Katarina Schwarz.

We congratulate Dr. Schwarz on her appointment and welcome her first report marking 100 years since the 1926 Slavery Convention.

This centenary is a moment for honest reflection. 100 years on, the prohibition of slavery remains de facto incomplete. It is driven by discrimination and structural inequality and worsened by global forces such as conflict and climate change.

Yet this is also an opportunity for action towards:
➡️accelerated action on lived experience to shape global responses to slavery,
➡️corporate accountability in supply chains,
➡️strengthening movements seeking remedy and reparation for the legacies of transatlantic enslavement and contemporary exploitation.

We look forward to working with the new Special Rapporteur over the course of her mandate.

Watch our statement here 👇

Earlier this week, the UK announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestine. We we...
10/09/2026

Earlier this week, the UK announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestine.

We welcome the Government's decision to impose import bans on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It sets an important precedent for the implementation of trade measures like import bans in instances of egregious human rights abuses.

The UK must not become a haven for goods tainted by human rights abuses. We call on the Government to continue with its moral leadership by broadening the application of import bans to situations of state imposed forced labour,

🔗 Read our joint statement with CJC calling for legal consequences for companies involved in human rights violations against Palestinians: https://corporatejusticecoalition.org/news/press/cjc-and-partners-call-for-legal-consequences-for-companies-involved-in-human-rights-violations-against-the-palestinian-people/

The inaugural UN Business and Human Rights Regional Forum in Western Europe is kicking off on the 17th of September 2026...
10/09/2026

The inaugural UN Business and Human Rights Regional Forum in Western Europe is kicking off on the 17th of September 2026.

The forum will bring together civil society, businesses and government to explore ways to strengthen business practices and manage value chains across Western Europe.

On 18 September, Anti-Slavery International’s Senior EU Adviser will participate in the session on the role of service providers and schemes in due diligence. Register for insights on how we can drive action on business and human rights.

📅When: 10AM CEST, 18 September 2026

📍Where: Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France

🔗Register here: https://events.unglobalcompact.org/regionalbhrforum/begin

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