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Source: Chronicle News Service / DIO Imphal, February 24 2023: CHANDEL: District Hill Leaders’ Day & ‘Meeyamgi Numit’ for the month of February was held at the multipurpose hall, Mini Secretariat, DC complex, here on Friday. As part of the programme, additional DC commissioner Md Firoj Khan distributed various items to beneficiaries of different schemes….
Today, 10 December, is International Human Rights Day and the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This milestone document ‘proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’. However, against this backdrop,…
A new report by the Anti Trafficking Labour and Exploitation Unit (ATLEU) published this week reveals the devastating consequences of the lack of access to legal aid for many survivors of trafficking and modern-day slavery. Legal aid exists to help those who cannot afford to pay for legal costs to access legal advice, family mediation…
Image credit: Mind and I, via Shutterstock. Changes in the law can transform lives. We know this because we recently celebrated the end of systematic State-imposed forced labour in Uzbekistan after a 15-year-long campaign. This is why, in the UK, we continue to call for provisions that aim to both prevent modern slavery and provide…
Human trafficking is a horrific crime and “an all-out assault on people’s rights, safety and dignity,” Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday, the eve of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.
MORE than 3000 people – including asylum seekers – have been held in police cells for up to 72 hours under immigration powers over the past five years, new figures reveal. The latest statistics, released under freedom of information legislation, show the majority of people held in police cells for “immigration purposes” are from countries…
New data collected by UNICEF exposes how girls as young as 12 are being forced into marriage across the Horn of Africa at alarming rates as a result of severe […]
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UNICEF warns of a significant jump in the number of adolescent girls being forced into early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as the region’s worst drought in 40 years pushes families to the edge. Girls as young as age 12 are being forced into child marriage at “alarming rates” in the Horn of…
Hope for Justice, as part of a coalition of trafficking and legal experts, is…
The post Coalition demands end to means testing of legal aid for survivors of trafficking first appeared on Hope for Justice.
25 April 2022 Kimberley – policy and monitoring assistant at Anti-Slavery International and co-author of our most recent report “One day at a time” – talks about the hostile environment created for survivors of modern slavery. Today, the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group and Anti-Slavery International launch the first report looking at the experience of the Recovery…
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