“Damaging” immigration rules will deter some rough sleepers from seeking help and could push them into modern slavery and other exploitative work, charities have warned. Sixty homelessness and human rights
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In January 1910, a 16-year-old girl named Lydia Harvey boarded a steamship in Wellington, New Zealand, bound for Buenos Aires. She had been recruited by a pimp to work in
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A former army barracks being used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers is “unsafe and entirely unsuitable”, the High Court has heard. The Napier Barracks in Kent (pictured)
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Emma Lewis is a member of the Victims and Survivors Consultative Panel for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. In this blog she talks about her work with the
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An “unscrupulous” gang of people-smugglers are facing years behind bars for their part in the deaths of 39 migrants. The Vietnamese victims, aged between 15 and 44, suffocated in the
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A victim of trafficking has been left “unemployed, dehumanised and penalised” as a result of the Home Office’s “astonishing” delay in deciding whether she has leave to remain in the
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A rising number of children are being referred to social services for help as they are exploited by gangs, trafficked and misuse drugs, new figures show. There were 642,980 referrals
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A single agency should be established in Scotland to monitor child trafficking, according to a new report. The University of Stirling study was commissioned by the Scottish Government and sets
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The number of people being trafficked into the UK could increase as criminals look to exploit those hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, an expert has warned. Unseen UK chief
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The “appalling abuse” of modern day slavery in the UK will take a “long time” to stamp out, the Justice Secretary has said, as another fashion brand announced an investigation
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