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Resist calls for new visa routes for migrant workers, advisory body urges UK
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Resist calls for new visa routes for migrant workers, advisory body urges UK

Ministers should resist calls from employers to open new visa routes that could expose migrant workers to exploitation, the UK government’s Migration Advisory Committee said on Tuesday. Business leaders have been pressing the government to help them tackle labour shortages in sectors ranging from agriculture and food processing to construction and logistics by allowing them…

Human Rights Day 2022: Our message to UK Government
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Human Rights Day 2022: Our message to UK Government

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,…

Ministers take openDemocracy to court to avoid handing over secret Covid review
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Ministers take openDemocracy to court to avoid handing over secret Covid review

The government is taking openDemocracy to court to resist having to publish its secret “lessons learnt” review of the Covid pandemic. Chiefs at the Department of Health and Social Care only last month agreed to publish the document, following an 18-month Freedom of Information battle that ended with a disclosure order by the independent watchdog….

Survivor of forced labour left homeless as case ‘slipped through the system’
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Survivor of forced labour left homeless as case ‘slipped through the system’

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors. They are active in the United Kingdom, United States, Cambodia, Norway, Australia, Ethiopia and Uganda. Their multi-disciplinary model is based on four pillars: preventing exploitation; rescuing victims; restoring lives;…

Potential victim identified after church holds modern slavery event
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Potential victim identified after church holds modern slavery event

This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. An Albanian man bravely accepted support to leave exploitation after Hope for Justice raised awareness about modern slavery at a church in Leicester….

Migrant workers on British farms trapped in 'debt bondage', MPs told | The Independent
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Migrant workers on British farms trapped in 'debt bondage', MPs told | The Independent

  Government inspectors have found cases of debt bondage among seasonal agricultural workers in the UK, MPs have heard. Margaret Beels, director of labour market enforcement at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis), told a committee of MPs she was “worried” that overseas recruitment had led to some seasonal workers being stuck…

Migrant workers on British farms trapped in 'debt bondage', MPs told | The National Wales
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Migrant workers on British farms trapped in 'debt bondage', MPs told | The National Wales

Government inspectors have found cases of debt bondage among seasonal agricultural workers in the UK, MPs have heard. Margaret Beels, director of labour market enforcement at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis), told a committee of MPs she was “worried” that overseas recruitment had led to some seasonal workers being stuck in…

Islamic State bride Shamima Begum’s appeal to restore UK citizenship to begin in London court | UK News
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Islamic State bride Shamima Begum’s appeal to restore UK citizenship to begin in London court | UK News

  Shamima Begum’s appeal to revoke her British citizenship in order to join the Islamic State begins in a London court today. She ran away from her home in London when she was 15 with two other girls in 2015, ending up in Syria and marrying a terrorist group fighter.  Mrs. Begum She was found…

Ditching the Human Rights Act will harm survivors 
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Ditching the Human Rights Act will harm survivors 

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors. They are active in the United Kingdom, United States, Cambodia, Norway, Australia, Ethiopia and Uganda. Their multi-disciplinary model is based on four pillars: preventing exploitation; rescuing victims; restoring lives;…

In the spotlight: the UK’s human rights and modern slavery record under review
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In the spotlight: the UK’s human rights and modern slavery record under review

04 November 2022 In our latest blog, Jo Baker, International Advocacy Manager, takes a look at the UN’s five-year human rights reviews, which will spotlight the UK in 2022. Image credit: Melinda Nagy, via Shutterstock. Every five years, the UK has a human rights health check at the United Nations, performed by other countries, and…