Anti-Slavery Australia

Anti-Slavery Australia is a non-profit organization based in Sydney, Australia. The organization was founded in 2007, and it is the only legal service in Australia dedicated to combating modern slavery and human trafficking. Anti-Slavery Australia works to end modern slavery and human trafficking through a combination of legal assistance, research, and education. The organization provides legal advice and representation to victims of these crimes, and it conducts research to better understand the nature and prevalence of modern slavery and human trafficking in Australia. Additionally, Anti-Slavery Australia provides education and training to lawyers, law students, and other stakeholders on modern slavery and human trafficking. The organization is a leading voice in the fight against these crimes in Australia.

Slavery Unravelled – Conversations PODCAST: Modern Slavery – A history and introduction

Slavery Unravelled – Conversations PODCAST: Modern Slavery – A history and introduction

Be Slavery Free (beslaveryfree.com) has a new awesome resource… a weekly podcast! We have more enslaved people in the world now than any other point in human history. It’s called Modern Slavery, but slavery has been around for a long time. The trade is in people but the currency is hope. Stories and history, laws…

Australia Signs Anti-Slavery Accord with Thailand
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Australia Signs Anti-Slavery Accord with Thailand

Sydney — Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has signed an agreement in Thailand to support a new training center aimed at fighting human trafficking. The training center will give more help to victims of trafficking and will also make them not liable for any crimes committed during time as forced or coerced laborers. The…

Spike in forced child marriage feared by Australian authorities
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Spike in forced child marriage feared by Australian authorities

As overseas travel resumes, authorities in Australia are concerned that this will lead to a spike in forced child marriages taking place abroad ABC News reports. Forced into marriage abroad Residing in Sydney, Kubra (not her real name) was engaged at just 11 years old and forced by her parents into marriage at the age…