Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 2 2017-18 3 Fighting for freedom
Throughout 2017/18 we faced significant challenges in every region of the world, from the horror of Grenfell and the callous treatment of those seeking asylum in Europe, to a rise in populism that threatens the core values of human rights. Jasmine O’Connor OBE But in the midst of these challenges there has been an Chief Executive enormous fight back and added urgency from across the global human rights movement. While it is easy to feel disheartened or angry when turning on the news, more and more people are channelling their energy into activism. As slavery issues continue to hit the headlines, new organisations and individuals are responding to the “While the challenge of eradicating modern slavery. This growing challenges that movement is having an impact, in this last year alone face human our members, supporters and donors have helped rights show strengthen over 17 anti-slavery movements across little sign of 19 projects in 14 countries. Girl attending Anti-Slavery’s schools for children of slave abating, neither And these courageous frontline human rights defenders descent in Niger. do our partners, have directly empowered 77,388 people to understand, members and assert and claim their rights. But more than that, together we have changed laws and policies to stop Cover photo: Catherine experienced Our vision is a world free from slavery supporters.” slavery while working in a private slavery in its tracks. home as a child. Anti-Slavery International works to eliminate While the challenges that face human rights show little Image by Anti-Slavery International all forms of slavery and slavery-like practices sign of abating, neither do our partners, members and throughout the world, including forced labour, debt supporters. I hope you enjoy reading this review and Anti-Slavery International bondage, human trafficking, descent-based slavery, Thomas Clarkson House celebrating the many successes there have been The Stableyard the worst forms of child labour and forced marriage. Broomgrove Road over the last year. And I hope you will continue to London SW9 9TL We work with local organisations to secure the be a part of this movement, fighting today for United Kingdom freedom of those in slavery or vulnerable to it, tomorrow’s freedom. tel: +44 (0)20 7501 8920 fax: +44 (0)20 7738 4110 campaign for changes in attitudes towards slavery email: [email protected] website: www.antislavery.org and press for more effective implementation of national and international laws and policies to protect people. UK Registered Charity 1049160 Company limited by guarantee 3079904 Registered in England and Wales Anti-Slavery International is the world’s oldest We worked to strengthen abolition movement, founded in 1839 by British 77,388 people were empowered by overseas anti-slavery partners across abolitionists such as Thomas Clarkson and Anti-Slavery International and its partners to 17 Joseph Sturge. understand, assert and claim their rights. 19 projects in 14 countries. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 4 Tanzania 5
with their families or else finding north of Tanzania. Protection from abuses alternative arrangements that are in Anti-Slavery International works the best interests of the child. closely with employers to help them Support has included provision of a understand their obligations and of domestic work safe space for child workers to learn highlight the benefits to them of about their rights and understand treating child workers fairly and An estimated one million children to protect children in domestic the legal protections they are entitled with respect. work in formal or informal domestic work, improve oversight from local to. Education outreach extends to work in Tanzania. While some children authorities of these practices and As a result of these initiatives, local authorities, with over 400 police Anti-Slavery International and its receive shelter, food, education, advance local legislation in Tanzania. officers, administrative staff and and protection from early marriage, We engage with local communities to partners have helped child workers employers enrolling for training to build confidence and organise many are exploited. Due to a lack of develop an effective framework for learn about their role in protection for committees to protect their rights and oversight and the hidden nature of intervention and work to empower working children. recognise what is a fair employment the work, children are very vulnerable local officials to represent the Where teenagers have chosen to contract and salary. This has led to to maltreatment and slavery. interests of exploited children. continue working, Anti-Slavery over 300 contracts signed to protect Anti-Slavery International is working Grassroots initiatives are an essential International is able to ensure that the rights of working children. closely with a local partner from the part of this campaign; identifying they do so in safe conditions and with Tanzania Domestic Workers Coalition, working children and providing access to healthcare and education. 2,471 children were registered with a coalition of local grassroots support for victims of violence and Nearly 2,500 child domestic workers the local authorities as working in private organisations, some of which were other abuse. Where possible this has have been identified and registered households so that they are known and can founded by former child workers, involved reuniting younger children so far in the Mwanza region in the be protected.
Grace My family was so poor it was sometimes a struggle to get food or buy clothes. I became a domestic worker when I was fifteen. The treatment I got was not good for sure. My employer frequently shouted at me and sometimes beat me when I did something wrong. Thanks to the project I know my rights, such as to be able to express my feelings, to be protected from abuse and exploitation, and a right to salary. I am young, but it should be noted that I am an employee who should be treated fairly at my work. The activities brought me an idea to start my Anti-Slavery International’s project ensures young small company when I am older and leave people in domestic work can access education. my job as domestic worker. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 6 Senegal 7
project two years ago. This has This initiative is complemented Freeing children from led 54 Quaranic schools to end by community level advocacy and the practice of begging. As a result awareness-raising efforts to challenge of this, the vulnerability of 3,052 parental preconceptions about forced begging children has been substantially residential Quaranic education and the reduced and their living conditions practice of begging; and to form local Forced begging continues to affect in local cultures, however, the extent improved. We continue to work with committees protecting and promoting tens of thousands of children living in of the maltreatment of children is not the communities to stop begging children’s rights and welfare. Quaranic schools across Senegal. fully known. completely. At the national level, Anti-Slavery Up to 100,000 children are forced Anti-Slavery International, together One very successful initiative has been also continues to lobby for change, to beg for several hours every day with local partners Tostan to connect boys with local ‘sponsor’ working closely with partner and many face violence and abuse International and La Rencontre families, leading to nearly 2,000 organisations to advocate for the if they fail to meet begging ‘quotas’ Africaine pour la défense des Droits children benefiting from essential introduction of a state curriculum and assigned by their masters. Far from de l’Homme (RADDHO), works with donations such as daily meals, soap, stricter regulation for schools and to their families and often living in local communities, Quaranic teachers sleeping mats and mosquito nets. criminalise begging. squalid conditions, the students can and the government to effectively be vulnerable to malnutrition and reform the Quaranic school system to neglect, and face further dangers on eliminate begging. 54 Quaranic schools stopped the practice 300 Quaranic teachers have worked of begging. with our project across Senegal. the streets. We have worked with more than This system, which pays for children’s 300 Quaranic teachers across the religious education, is widely accepted country since the beginning of the Eradicating forced begging across West Africa The practice of children being sent out to the streets to beg by their schoolmasters in residential Quaranic schools is widespread across the whole region of West Africa. Building on almost a decade of experience working in Senegal, Anti-Slavery started a new project in January 2018, partnering with organisations RADDHO in Senegal, ENDA in Mali and ANTD in Niger, to fully assess the situation and support a regional effort on forced-begging. The project aims to establish organisations led by children and young adults with experiences of begging in Niger, Mali and Senegal and train them in advocacy and communication techniques so that they can shape the national debates around forced child begging and end it for good across the region. We are working to engage former Quaranic students to share their experiences and identify strategies to address not only forced begging, but also the root causes, such as poverty and lack of access to state education, contributing to the prevalence of this practice. Anti-Slavery is working to ensure children Anti-Slavery and its partners lobby governments and regional international attending Quaranic schools in West Africa receive bodies to put this issue high on their agendas and draw concrete plans to good education and are no longer forced to beg. eradicate forced child begging from West Africa. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 8 Mauritania 9
Said and Yarg. facilitate regular visits by designated Photo: Michael Hylton local ‘women mentors’, to help survivors build lives away from slavery and adjust to the new challenges of independence. To enable this, Anti-Slavery continues to build its growing network of local activists, with nearly 3,000 people attending monthly awareness-raising Long road to justice meetings within their communities. In January 2018, the African These meetings have led to activist Committee of Experts on the Rights training in media skills, human rights, and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC, an the identification of slavery, the basic African Union body) ruled in favour judicial process, and how best to of survivors of slavery in Mauritania, accompany victims through the courts. Women who escaped slavery in a case supported by Anti-Slavery in a shop funded by microloans provided by Anti-Slavery’s project. Alongside this work, Anti-Slavery has International. distributed small grants supporting This flagship ruling concerns two local journalists and assisting them brothers, Said and Yarg Salem, who to communicate the issues around were born into slavery. Their former discrimination and slavery and bring Building lives in freedom masters were prosecuted for slavery in these stories to the wider public. the first ever such case in the country, In Mauritania many people are born of slave descent to break free from Local partner SOS-Esclaves has but given extremely lenient sentences into slavery because their ancestors servile relationships with ‘masters’ been instrumental in building and set free pending appeal. were captured and their families have and build new lives. momentum within Mauritanian The ACERWC found that Mauritania’s been ‘owned’ by slave-owning families society. Unfortunately, national In partnership with local partner authorities have failed to protect the ever since. government remains largely unwilling organisation SOS-Esclaves, 307 boys from abuse, as well as investigate, to acknowledge the issue, much less People born into slavery face a children and adults of slave descent prosecute and punish the widespread tackle, the existence of slavery. lifetime of abuse, and even if they received literacy training and we practice of slavery in the country. escape, they suffer widespread began income-generating activities Anti-Slavery has advocated to The ruling increases pressure on discrimination and hardship. For many, for 170 survivors of slavery, including increase pressure for prosecutions of Mauritania to take slavery seriously. their undocumented status means socioeconomic support through slavery crimes, including lobbying the The Government has been sensitive to they cannot access state support courses in catering, sewing, veil national government and international external pressure, proven by a quick including education for their children. dyeing and hairdressing. agencies such as the Human Rights Council, the International Labour reaction of the Mauritanian authorities Anti-Slavery International works to Emergency funds have been used to Organisation and the African to organise the appeal case within a support individuals from communities provide for survivors’ families, and Commission. week of the ACERWC hearing, after six years of earlier inaction. 3,000 people attending monthly 170 survivors of slavery attended The brothers found the appeal verdict awareness-raising meetings within their training courses in catering, sewing, veil 307 children and adults of slave descent unsatisfactory and appealed again. communities. dyeing and hairdressing. received literacy training. Their wait for justice continues. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 10 Niger 11
and gender equality. These projects and discrimination of people of slave Emancipation through have built up the confidence of descent on the international stage, community members, who have been including the UN and African Union. education increasingly successful in persuading In February 2018 we began a new local authorities to support them. three-year DFID-funded project to In Niger, where traditional slavery been the establishment of schools to Infrastructure development such build upon this work and further still exists, many people remain provide the children of slave descent as construction of wells, crucial in support the socio-economic under the control of their masters in access to education for the first time. the desert location, has also been development of the communities important for developing strong to help ensure results practices similar to serfdom. The results have surpassed any expectations. communities and preventing people are sustained when the Communities of slave descent are from leaving the villages in search of project ends in 2021. In 2017, these schools obtained among the most marginalised and better living conditions. This project is funded with UK aid some of the highest pass rates in the from the UK government. impoverished, facing huge challenges Recently we facilitated the government in building their lives in freedom, from country (89% compared to an average of 58% nationwide), a zero drop-out takeover of the six community schools the lack of access to education, to established by the project to educate 273 families were supported through rate, low absenteeism rates, and the finding employment and struggling 703 children of slave descent, 340 the provision of microcredit and small loans highest proportion of girls at school with stigma and discrimination. girls and 363 boys. in 2017. in the district. Anti-Slavery has been working We have also continued our work to Around the schools we have built with local partner Timidria for over advocate for more comprehensive children of slave descent attended community-wide projects, including 703 ten years to create hubs for new policies tackling slavery practices six schools managed by this project. micro-loans to help members, communities escaping slavery in Niger. especially women, start small At the centre of these hubs has businesses; training on human rights Adamou*, 16-years-old Adamou’s parents lived under the control of their masters until they settled in a village where Anti-Slavery International runs schools and community projects for people escaping slavery. “I am the first one in the family to go to secondary school and this makes my parents very proud. Life in my home village has changed a lot since the schools were built, they have made such a positive difference. People are now less poor and know so much more about their rights than before. There are no slaves in my village any more. My dream is to become the President of Niger. If I am the President, I would make sure there is enough food for Nigerien people, construct schools in every village, give a job to everyone, build new wells, and release people who are still in slavery.” Anti-Slavery International’s project has built strong communities living in freedom from their former masters. *name changed Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 12 India 13
awareness of the rights of over 31,000 Workers in India’s brick factories face originate, and in areas where the brick extremely harsh working conditions and kilns are located. workers. widespread bonded labour practices. Photo: Bharat Patel Tackling the intersecting problems has Successful projects in the northern involved a combination of awareness states of Chhattisgarh, Punjab and raising, peer support development, Uttar Pradesh, have helped Anti-Slavery assistance to take legal cases reach out to approximately 50,000 forward and ensuring workers receive at-risk workers, as well as providing certificates formally freeing them from access to support such as a dedicated debt-bondage. telephone helpline, advocacy resources and access to healthcare. Since the current phase of the project began in February 2017 it Although government action remains has succeeded in securing 238 such slow, Anti-Slavery continues to work certificates so that workers can be with local authorities and partners released from their debt, as well as to oppose harmful vested interests helping them access compensation and confront the abuse of the most and rehabilitation. vulnerable communities. Through better awareness of their Lifting the burden for rights, bonded workers have 238 release from bondage certificates increasingly been able to join forces were secured since the project began in to successfully exert pressure on local February 2017. India’s brick workers authorities and the police to follow up on cases of exploitative practices. This Bonded labour continues to be vulnerable to debt bondage in brick has led to the formation of 180 worker 180 worker peer groups were formed to better equip workers to defend their rights. a pressing issue in India, most kilns and the agricultural sector. peer groups which have helped raise particularly in the brick kiln industry, With the majority of families having where harsh working conditions are travelled far from their home in frequently compounded by endemic search of work, the need for support Mohan’s family story exploitative practices. networks is vital and Anti-Slavery While there are laws in place to In 1992 Mohan Lal and his wife Bhagavati travelled International has proven instrumental from their home in Rajasthan, India to work in a brick protect the rights of workers in India, in helping families escape from the they are often not implemented factory in Punjab. However, they were forced to stay cycle of debt-bondage and access at the same brick kiln for 25 years after becoming due to the powerful pressure of support to build a new life. business owners and landlords trapped in debt-bondage after the factory owner on local authorities responsible In partnership with local organisations started to control the loan they initially had taken. for enforcement. This lack of legal Volunteers for Social Justice (VSJ), With their three young children also forced to work protection, combined with poverty, Jan Jagriti Kendra (JJK) and Jan Sahas, to repay the loan, they were only given enough money to survive. It was only and poor access to education and Anti-Slavery has made significant after Hardeep, their youngest son, contacted Anti-Slavery’s partners, Volunteers employment, makes marginalised headway addressing the causes of for Social Justice (VSJ) for help, that an official order to free the family was groups, such as the lowest caste bonded labour, working both in obtained. We are working to secure the official debt-bondage release certificates Dalits and religious minorities, the villages where migrant families and compensation for the family. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 14 Nepal Lebanon 15 Preventing Stopping exploitation of Child migrant women
In June 2017, our Migrant Trafficking Domestic Work programme in In early 2018 we began two new Lebanon secured funding for a new projects in Nepal. The first works to Aamuktha, a former victim of trafficking, phase. We worked with partners reduce the risk of trafficking amongst became a paralegal to help others. KAFA from Lebanon and Ovibashi Stock image by Lucian Alexe on Unsplash the children of communities affected Karmi Unnayan Program (OKUP) from Bangladesh. by the 2015 earthquake. Awareness raising with both duty vulnerable to, or have been subject Despite a relatively short timeframe Working with local partners Children bearers and communities is vital to, human trafficking. of only nine months the project and Women in Social Service and specially developed school An innovative element of this equipped 369 Bangladeshi migrant and Human Right (CWISH) and programmes are important in helping initiative is a special programme to women working in Lebanon with Samrakshak Samuha Nepal children to recognise the risks of train survivors to become paralegals the knowledge and skills to better (SASANE), Anti-Slavery is focusing accepting risky job offers, especially and organise placements for them in protect themselves from exploitation on communities from which girls far away from home. police stations, not only building up and abuse. are forced to migrate to find work, Over the two-year programme, the their skills and confidence, but also The project also produced an usually because of their families’ project aims to support over 2,500 helping improve the police’s response information campaign consisting of desperate situation. girls and young women who are to other trafficking cases. ten billboards displayed on major highways across Lebanon and three short videos which were shown on Breaking the cycle of bonded labour TV and online, encouraging people The second project works to break The project aims to support the Community outreach, rights- to question the sponsorship (Kafala) the cycle of slavery and exploitation Haliya community, especially awareness and group support aims system. The online campaign alone of communities affected by the women, to monitor the government’s to empower people to benefit from was viewed by more than 700,000 so-called Haliya system, a traditional rehabilitation scheme and ensure it rehabilitation and gain access to people by the end of the project in agricultural bonded labour practice is implemented in a fair way that is land redistribution and subsistence March 2018. in the western hills of Nepal. responsive to their needs. grants. Following generations of social Working in partnership with the Introduction of tuition classes, and economic marginalisation, the Nepal National Dalit Social Welfare transition support and resources such Government announced in 2008 that Organisation (NNDSWO), we are as books and school uniforms are it had abolished the Haliya system aiming to support 36,000 women, key to our work as we ensure up to and cancelled the debts of all Haliya men and children to escape bonded 3,000 children enrol, regularly attend bonded labourers. However, the labour, claim their rights, access and remain at school, breaking inter- Women migrating for work rehabilitation process has been slow, education and achieve economic generational cycles of slavery. to Lebanon often face uneven and ultimately ineffective. stability. exploitation and abuse. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 16 Uzbekistan Turkmenistan 17 Bringing Cotton Crimes out of the shadows
The seventh and ninth largest This was followed by thousands of producers of cotton in the world, Uzbek students, education and healthcare and Turkmen cotton is used by major workers being suddenly being recalled high street brands and ends up in shops from the cotton fields under orders of around the world. However, the cotton the Prime Minister. industry in both countries is tainted by However, despite signalling an the endemic use of forced labour. intention to eradicate the problem, With the entire industry state-owned during the 2017 harvest the and controlled in both countries, Government still imposed quotas on thousands of people are forced to local authorities and put pressure on pick cotton under harsh conditions by regional officials to round up a huge repressive governments; using systems local workforce through coercion Uzbek citizens of forced labour on a massive scale. and threats, whilst independent picking cotton. Farmers risk steep penalties if they activists against forced labour faced harassment. grow other crops instead of cotton has remained in the shadows. Advocacy at the UN to include and during harvest season citizens are Although Uzbekistan has largely Together with the Cotton Campaign Turkmenistan in the Human Rights forced from their regular jobs and into cooperated with the International and local partner Alternative Committee’s list of issues for closer the fields, where they must meet strict Labour Organization (ILO) to monitor Turkmenistan News (ATN) we have examination has been important in cotton quotas. the harvest, some observers point out increased our focus on this country. that the Uzbek government hasn’t bringing Turkmen cotton crimes into Working with the Cotton Campaign We campaigned for the release of the public spotlight. coalition, Anti-Slavery has been allowed the ILO to monitor the harvest in a truly independent fashion. Gaspar Matalaev, an independent instrumental in tackling these campaigner involved in monitoring forced labour systems by lobbying Challenges remain, and local the cotton harvest, who has been IKEA pulls out of governments and international independent organisations are not in jail since November 2016 on Turkmenistan organisations, such as the World Bank yet free to officially register in spurious charges. and the UN, to pressure Uzbek and the country, whilst websites of Following Anti-Slavery Turkmen leaders to end these abuses. many international independent We also joined the campaign to use International’s intervention, organisations, including Anti-Slavery the publicity for the Asian Games Swedish furniture giant IKEA Uzbekistan International, are still blocked. held in Turkmenistan at the end of revealed it would stop sourcing September of 2017 to call for its cotton from Turkmenistan. IKEA After a decade of campaigning, the Turkmenistan sponsors, including Coca Cola, LG agreed with our position that President of Uzbekistan officially Corp and Mastercard, to withdraw continuing its presence in the acknowledged the existence of the Whilst Uzbekistan took most of the support for a country that abuses the country would mean condoning problem of forced labour in its cotton media attention for the last decade for human rights of its own citizens on human rights abuses. industry for the first time. its forced labour abuses, Turkmenistan such a vast scale. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 18 United Kingdom Vietnam 19
submitted to the House of Commons. access to European mechanisms – Holding the Government Anti-Slavery is pressing the UK such as Europol and Eurojust, that Government to back the Bill and fulfil help dismantle cross-border trafficking its promises of leading the world in networks – instances of modern to account tackling slavery. slavery could soar. In July 2017 the ATMG also published Our campaigning continued to the government to announce that its latest ground-breaking research put pressure on the UK government support for victims of trafficking will 5,148 people were identified as on the impact of the UK’s withdrawal potential victims of slavery in the UK in 2017. to develop a comprehensive system be raised from 45 to 90 days; in line from the European Union, which has supporting all slavery victims and with the ATMG’s recommendations. been widely praised and cited by monitor the implementation of the However, the changes announced parliamentarians and lobby groups in 2,120 of trafficking cases referred 2015 Modern Slavery Act. by the Government do not go far relevant debates across the UK. The were related to children, a 66% rise from While the Act marked a major step enough in addressing what survivors paper warned that if the UK loses the year before. forward for anti-slavery efforts in the need to recover from their traumatic UK, challenges remain as too often experiences. Anti-Slavery therefore victims of trafficking are not identified, joined the Free for Good campaign to Awareness raising event in a Vietnamese school organised by Anti-Slavery partner and those who are identified do not support the Modern Slavery (Victim Tackling Pacific Links Foundation. get adequate support. Additionally, Support) Bill brought forward by Lord perpetrators are rarely prosecuted for McColl of Dulwich. The Bill asks that Vietnamese their crimes. all victims have a guaranteed right to Anti-Slavery International is chairing support while their status is decided trafficking the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring by the authorities, and for a further Group coalition (ATMG) to hold the twelve months afterwards. to the UK UK Government to its anti-slavery The Bill successfully made its way promises. Our campaigning has led through the House of Lords and was The trafficking of vulnerable methods and vulnerabilities that put young people from Vietnam to the people at risk of being targeted. By UK is on the rise, with the majority identifying the methods by which trafficked into cannabis production, victims are trafficked we are better nail bars and forced prostitution. equipped to identify policy changes in Building on our 2014 research report on Vietnam, the UK and transit countries this issue, this new project initiated that can help halt this crime. in April 2017 with partners ECPAT UK Our project partners provide and Pacific Links Foundation, aims to vocational training for young people raise awareness amongst potential in Vietnam, offering an alternative victims of the risks of trafficking and to looking for jobs abroad; along trains Vietnamese police officers to with support for children and young recognise the signs of trafficking. adults who are already in the UK after Anti-Slavery has made significant having been exploited, helping them Victims of slavery in the UK face big challenges even if they manage to escape their traffickers. progress this year with research to to overcome their trauma and rebuild identify transit routes, trafficking their lives. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 20 Business 21
Embassy training workshops in passing a key resolution, which Sudan, one for officials from relevant includes recommendations for Government ministries and another mandatory due diligence in supply workshop for business representatives chains and, more recently, the EU on the issue of risks of modern passing a resolution to support slavery in supply chains and on the binding provisions in EU trade UK’s modern slavery legislation. agreements to promote and protect We have deepened our working women’s rights. relationships with some of the largest brands in the world to make concrete steps forward this year, including chocolate giant Mondelez, which own Cadbury’s, implementing their Agriculture is one of the industries ‘Cocoa Life’ programme, to tackle affected by forced and child labour. Credit: Ghost Presenter, Unsplash child labour and trafficking in their cocoa supply chain. After our intervention Swedish furniture giant IKEA ceased sourcing cotton tainted Eliminating slavery practices by forced labour in Turkmenistan. In the legislative sphere we supported from global supply chains our patron Baroness Young of Hornsey to bring a Private Members’ Bill A central pillar of Anti-Slavery as critical friends, advising on how through UK Parliament to strengthen International’s work in the last year to undertake thorough due diligence the Transparency in Supply Chains has been our focus on global supply in their supply chains and develop (TISC) provision and ensure that the ASOS Partnership chains and the need to eliminate appropriate business strategies to public sector is required to report on slavery practices affecting goods sold tackle the risks of slavery. We utilised modern slavery due diligence. We entered a strategic across the world. our expertise to advise, guide and train We continue to work with the Ethical partnership on a ‘critical friend’ Throughout 2017/18 we continued UK and international businesses across Trading Initiative (ETI), an alliance basis with online clothing to develop a popular supply a broad spectrum of industries from of companies, trade unions and giant ASOS to help improve its chain consulting work to support garments, to insurance, toys and gifts. voluntary organisations aimed at on-the-ground practices and prevent labour exploitation international businesses and Anti-Slavery has developed a close improving the lives of workers across in its supply chain. This work non-profits based in the UK to fulfil working relationship with the Foreign the globe. includes supporting them to find their requirements under the 2015 and Commonwealth Office over the In June 2017 we opened a new Modern Slavery Act, working with sustainable solutions to the issues year, both with the FCO’s Modern project to lobby the European Union faced by migrant workers in their more than 20 clients across the Slavery Unit in London and with to introduce an EU wide legislation private and third sector. supply chain in Mauritius and individual embassies, particularly to oblige businesses carry out due develop modern slavery training Anti-Slavery encourages businesses in relation to supply chains due diligence on forced and child labour for ASOS staff and suppliers in the to go beyond ‘compliance’, aiming to diligence. For example, in March 2018 in global supply chains. Successes UK and overseas. engage with businesses longer term Anti-Slavery delivered two British to date include the EU Parliament Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 22 Advocacy 23 Advocacy Anti-Slavery International has advocated against slavery since its inception and has built a strong position on the international stage, which gives us and our partners a platform to hold national Governments to account and comply with international legislation on slavery related practices. In the last financial year we influenced a range of UN mechanisms, including Universal Periodic Reviews of specific countries, to Treaty Monitoring Bodies and the mechanisms of the International Labour Organisation. Examples include: Kafala sponsorship system, widespread across the Middle East, ties migrant workers During the Universal Periodic Review of the UK we secured ten recommendations to their employers and enables exploitation. on modern slavery and four on overseas domestic workers. Our advocacy Photo: Pete Pattisson on domestic workers was particularly successful, challenging the current visa regulations which tie overseas domestic workers to their employers. At the Universal Periodic Review of India, we achieved twenty recommendations Forced marriage Qatar commits relating to modern slavery and child labour practices, as well as on issues relating to the root causes of slavery such as access to education and caste discrimination. is slavery to reforms We retained pressure on Niger and Mauritania on compliance with the In September 2017, new Under pressure from campaigners, Convention on the Rights of the Child by influencing the inclusion of slavery global estimates for modern Qatar has committed to labour practices as one of the priority areas ahead of the upcoming examinations of slavery were launched by the law reforms for migrant workers, both countries’ by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. International Labour Organisation including a minimum wage and with partners, estimating that the right for workers to organise We achieved an inclusion of strong recommendations of the International there are 40.3 million people and leave the country if they wish. Labour Conference’s examination of Mauritania’s compliance with Forced in modern slavery worldwide. Although positive, the reforms won’t Labour Convention. Forced marriage was included change the ‘kafala’ system, which in the estimates, marking the gives employers control over workers’ Anti-Slavery Charter first time it has been recognised visas and enables exploitation. as a form of slavery. This was Anti-Slavery was the first to expose In September 2017 we launched the Anti-Slavery Charter, a set of the result of years of advocacy abuses of migrants working on the comprehensive measures needed to be taken to end slavery, to ensure that by Anti-Slavery and others for infrastructure for the FIFA World Cup global momentum towards ending slavery continues to grow. The Charter including forced marriage as a in Qatar, prompting an investigation was endorsed by the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of form of slavery. by the Guardian newspaper in 2013. Slavery, Ms Urmila Bhoola, and by Anti-Slavery Charter highlights the need to tackle over twenty other organisations, discrimination as one of the root causes of slavery. including three large trade Photo: Bharat Patel unions, and businesses. India ratifies conventions to protect children Organisations wishing to sign up Following calls from Anti-Slavery and others, India has ratified two to the Charter can call us on international treaties concerning the worst forms of child labour and the 0207 501 8934 or email minimum age of work. This means that it will be it easier to hold Indian [email protected]. authorities to account and help end widespread child exploitation in the country. Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 24 2017/8 25 Financial highlights Thanks
441,775 We would like to thank all those who supported us throughout the year, including: 1,786,932 305,685 301,240 120,884 Individuals who donate, raise vital funds and awareness of our work and Income 2017/18 campaign to end slavery,
Individuals £441,775 441,775 1,786,932 305,685 Patrons, who speak up to raise awareness of slavery and our work to tackle it, 301,240 Institutional grants £1,786,932 Foundations, companies and other organisational donors which enable Anti- 1 Slavery to effectively campaign and implement programmes to end slavery, Gifts in Wills £305,685 Volunteers, who make an enormous difference to our capacity to carry out Trusts, foundations our work, and corporate £301,240 Our members whose consistent support inspires us to work for a brighter Other £120,884 Individuals 15% future free of slavery. Institutional grants 60% £2,956,517 Gifts in wills 10% Barbara Cairns Trust Open Society Institute Assistance Foundations and companies 10% The Bay Tree Charitable Trust Foundation 4% Other income Big Lottery Fund Robert Fleming Hannay Memorial Charity British & Foreign School Society Samworth Foundation Comic Relief Sir James Reckitt Charity
363,700 C & A Foundation 1,139,521 692,836 The Trust for London 192,306 545,619 Eileen & Colins Trust Expenditure 2017/18 UK Department for International The Ericson Trust Fundraising £363,700 363,700 1,139,521 692,836 192,306 Development Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Africa £1,139,521 1 UK Home Office – Modern Slavery European Commission Asia £692,836 Innovation Fund Freedom Fund UN Voluntary Fund on Contemporary Latin America £192,306 G C Gibson Charitable Settlement Forms of Slavery Europe £545,619 Henry Scutt Fundraising 12% US Department of State Office to Monitor £2,933,982 Africa 39% ILO Work in Freedom and Combat Trafficking in Persons 24% Irish Aid Asia US Department of State Bureau of Latin America 7% Jonathan Newhouse Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Europe 19% Jusaca Charitable Trust The William Allen Young Charitable Trust Lancashire Foundation The William Whyte Tait Charitable Trust Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Our full report and financial statements are available on our website at Netherlands The Wyndham Charitable Trust www.antislavery.org/accounts. Muriel Jones Foundation The Valentine Charitable Trust Annual Review 2017-18 Annual Review 2017-18 26 Partners Get involved 27 Photo: Michael Hylton Partners Become a partner Working in partnership with others is fundamental to the way we go Together with our funding partners, we bring unique value about ending slavery. through innovative and sustainable work to challenge policy and practice and eradicate slavery throughout the world. In the financial year 2017-18 Our partnerships with grassroots Anti-Slavery worked closely with organisations allow us to bring 19 formal partners implementing our expertise to effectively advocate Grantmakers Company projects in 14 countries. However, our for systemic change nationally partnerships extend far beyond that. and internationally. Our grassroots Anti-Slavery works with Partnerships partners carry out crucial work, often grantmakers to create sustainable, We work in close and diverse Does your business want to in challenging circumstances, to give impactful projects that lead to partnerships with individuals and play a part in ending modern people their freedom. lasting freedom for the world’s organisations across the world, most vulnerable. Grantmakers slavery? Are you looking to slavery They are the true anti-slavery heroes. from fellow anti-slavery organisations typically value Anti-Slavery’s risks in your own operations? Even if we can’t list all of them here, to trade unions, universities, longevity and deep global Speak to us about how your law firms, businesses and we thank and salute every single expertise which means that grants company can be a leading light in international organisations. one of them. are effective and well-managed. the modern slavery movement. For more information please Call Ryna on 0207 737 9436 or AFRUCA (UK) Environnement et Ireland, UK) email [email protected] Développement du Tiers – contact Katherine on 0207 501 Alternative Turkmenistan News Migrant Rights Centre Ireland for more information. (ATN) Monde (ENDA, Mali) 8935 or at [email protected]. Minority Rights Group Ethical Trading Initiative Ashiana Sheffield (UK) International (UK) Focus on Labour Exploitation – Association Nigérienne pour le Nepal National Dalit Social FLEX (UK) Traitement de la Délinquance Welfare Organisation Community Groups et la prévention du crime Helen Bamber Foundation (UK) (NNDSWO, Nepal) (ANTD, Niger) Human Trafficking Foundation Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan If your group is committed Association Timidria (Niger) (UK) Program (OKUP) to the ending of slavery, you Bawso (Wales, UK) International Domestic Workers Pacific Links Foundation can get involved with events British TUC Federation (IDWF, Banlgadesh) (Vietnam) and initiatives to campaign and Business & Human Rights International Trade Union RADDHO (Senegal) fundraise for freedom. Contact Confederation – ITUC (Belgium) Resource Centre (UK) Samrakshak Samuha Nepal Rebecca on 0207 737 9434 or on Children and Women in Social Jan Jagriti Kendra (India) (SASANE, Nepal) [email protected]. Contact us Service and Human Right Jan Sahas Social Development The Snowdrop Project (CWISH, Nepal) Society (India) SOS-Esclaves (Mauritania) Anti-Slavery International The European Coalition for Kaarak Enterprise Ltd. (India) collaborates to affect and lever Corporate Justice (ECCJ, Tanzania Domestic Workers Belgium) KAFA (Lebanon) Coalition (TDWC) change across the world. The Corporate Responsibility Kalayaan (UK) TARA Project (Scotland, UK) To partner with the world’s oldest human rights organisation contact Coalition (CORE, UK) La Strada International Tostan International (Senegal) The Cotton Campaign (Europe) Rebecca on 0207 737 9434 or at Volunteers for Social Justice ECPAT UK Law Centre NI (Northern (India) [email protected]. Annual Review 2017-18 28 Supporters Why we support Anti-Slavery International
High on the As a history Trusts’ list of buff I had people in need studied slavery, are those who but it was the are enslaved, in Morecombe Bay whatever way. disaster in 2004 They need outside help – simply when more than to be equal with everyone else twenty Chinese on the planet. immigrants drowned which Couple that with two of today’s shocked me to the core. trustees being descendants To know that persons were of pioneer abolitionist William being enslaved through modern Wilberforce and you see why methods, in plain sight, and it concentrates on helping to dying right here in Britain – and eliminate modern slavery. not enough was being done. We continue to support Anti- I resolved to get involved and Slavery because we feel it has to try to help. Becoming a the knowledge and experience, patron enables me to carry out with on-the-spot partners, to this commitment. tackle the whole problem. Jonathan Newhouse, John Gaselee, trustee of Wyndham Chairman and Chief Executive of Charitable Trust and a descendant Condé Nast International, of William Wilberforce. Anti-Slavery’s patron.
Your gift could change lives: £180 could pay for a former victim To find out more about of slavery to be trained in the our work please visit management of small businesses www.antislavery.org, or contact £2,000 could pay for the running Ryna Sherazi on 0207 737 9436 or of a hotline for exploited brick [email protected]. factories workers for a month UK Registered Charity 1049160 £5,500 could pay for 30 young trafficking survivors in Nepal to be trained as paralegals.