The world is watching Qatar this month, as athletes from across the globe compete in the FIFA World Cup. For many, however, the focus has been not on the competitors themselves, but on the workers who ...

Several high-profile celebrities were slapped with human-trafficking charges in late 2024, from music mogul Sean Combs, known as P. Diddy, to former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries. Neither has ...

Slavery ends not when words are purified or systems improved, but when relations are introduced that power cannot absorb – ...

Academics who suggest that the very idea of ‘modern slavery’ is inane and clichéd undermine anti-slavery activism and deny an appalling reality for thousands who are trafficked, sold and enslaved. The ...

The UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act is ten years old on March 26. When it was passed, it was billed as “world-leading” legislation – the first of its kind to introduce a dedicated legal framework to deal ...

When Nasreen Sheikh walks down a busy street, she doesn’t see the faces of the people walking by – she sees the clothes they wear and the suffering of those who made them. As a child, Sheikh worked up ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This blog post was authored by Dr. Jean Baderschneider, inaugural-CEO and Chair of ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is a non-departmental public body established by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Our core purpose is to help practitioners and ...

The Salvation Army has warned that modern slavery is still widespread across the UK. According to new figures released by the organisation, 2,409 potential victims of modern slavery accessed its ...

Stephen Collins has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Global Challenges Research fund as part of this project. This research has been created and carried out with the ...

Although he was finally safe, it didn’t mean his ordeal was over though. ‘This is when the depression kicked in,’ remembers ...

What is the Modern Slavery Act? The Modern Slavery Act, which extends to England and Wales, introduced tougher penalties on the perpetrators of modern slavery, as well as more extensive support for ...