modern slavery

Criminal gangs are taking control of vulnerable people’s homes and using them as drug dens
Crime

Criminal gangs are taking control of vulnerable people’s homes and using them as drug dens

The Big Issue shadowed police officers in Camden and Islington, where there has been success in tackling cuckooing – the practice of taking over someone’s home for exploitation. The trick is that they haven’t done it alone

We took the Home Office to task for lying on modern slavery. We still don’t have answers
MAYA ESSLEMONT

We took the Home Office to task for lying on modern slavery. We still don’t have answers

We all agree that modern slavery is a problem but survivors are being failed when media attention dries up, After Exploitation’s Maya Esslemont writes

Anti-poverty campaigner and former Labour minister Frank Field dies aged 81: ‘He saved many lives’
Politics

Anti-poverty campaigner and former Labour minister Frank Field dies aged 81: ‘He saved many lives’

‘I think there are probably people in this country who are better off today because of the work of Frank Field,’ said Emily Thornberry after the death of the former Birkenhead MP

Modern slavery survivors face being sent to Rwanda after MPs vote down deportation bill amendments
Rwanda bill

Modern slavery survivors face being sent to Rwanda after MPs vote down deportation bill amendments

I was groomed by drug gangs and forced into slavery, aged 9. I’m lucky to have made it out alive
Modern slavery

I was groomed by drug gangs and forced into slavery, aged 9. I’m lucky to have made it out alive

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Modern slavery survivor Ilja was sex trafficked for years. Now she’s speaking out to help others
Modern slavery

Modern slavery survivor Ilja was sex trafficked for years. Now she’s speaking out to help others

Reports of forced labour, sex trafficking and domestic servitude at record high in Britain
Modern day slavery

Reports of forced labour, sex trafficking and domestic servitude at record high in Britain

‘Tied’ visas are putting migrant domestic workers at risk of abuse
Migrant workers

‘Tied’ visas are putting migrant domestic workers at risk of abuse

Borders Bill will be ‘catastrophic’ for victims of modern slavery, MPs told
Home Office

Borders Bill will be ‘catastrophic’ for victims of modern slavery, MPs told

The Big Issue is getting tough on modern slavery
News

The Big Issue is getting tough on modern slavery

New campaign launched to uncover hidden human trafficking and modern slavery
News

New campaign launched to uncover hidden human trafficking and modern slavery

Coronation Street to show that ‘slavery hides in plain sight’
TV

Coronation Street to show that ‘slavery hides in plain sight’

This app is aiming to help car washes to clean up their act on modern slavery
News

This app is aiming to help car washes to clean up their act on modern slavery

How The Big Issue is tackling modern slavery
News

How The Big Issue is tackling modern slavery

This is how homeless people are getting trapped in modern slavery
Housing

This is how homeless people are getting trapped in modern slavery