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Keep up to date with all our campaigns, recent media coverage of issues affecting migrant domestic workers and case studies. For regular updates on all our work please follow us on Twitter @kalayaan.
Keep up to date with all our campaigns, recent media coverage of issues affecting migrant domestic workers and case studies. For regular updates on all our work please follow us on Twitter @kalayaan.
Today, Kalayaan has published the first of five ‘mini reports’ on the right to work in the…
In the week before Anti-Slavery Day, on 11 October 2024, Kalayaan held a Showcase Event to highlight…
Earlier this month our Policy Officer Avril visited Brighton and Liverpool to participate in the Liberal Democrats…
Read We, Domestic Workers, a Zine produced by Kalayaan’s Campaigning Group. The Zine contains the work of…
Kalayaan and many non-statutory First Responders have signed a joint statement asking for the Home Office to…
by Sophie Levack, Policy Officer at Kalayaan Last week, news broke that some members of the Hinduja family…
On International Domestic Workers’ Day 2024, Kalayaan releases our new report, 12 years of modern slavery: the…
By Becca Hirst, Community Engagement Lead for Kalayaan. On 3 April 2024, Kalayaan hosted a coffee morning…
Kalayaan’s campaign and policy work is focused on reinstating the basic rights of migrant domestic workers which were removed in April 2012, tying domestic workers who have entered since this date to their employers. This makes it impossible in practise for migrant domestic workers to assert any rights as, without the right to resign or to leave their employment, they have no bargaining power at all in what is already a vastly unequal employment relationship.
Abuse reported to Kalayaan by workers who have registered with us since April 2012 make it clear that the removal of the rights to change employer not only destroys the chances of migrant domestic workers to access justice once they have escaped abuse. The fact that workers are tied to their employer with no option to leave also results in a worsening of treatment in employment, particularly in restrictions of freedoms.
Today, Kalayaan has published the first of five ‘mini reports’ on the right to work in the…
In the week before Anti-Slavery Day, on 11 October 2024, Kalayaan held a Showcase Event to highlight…
Earlier this month our Policy Officer Avril visited Brighton and Liverpool to participate in the Liberal Democrats…
Read We, Domestic Workers, a Zine produced by Kalayaan’s Campaigning Group. The Zine contains the work of…
Kalayaan and many non-statutory First Responders have signed a joint statement asking for the Home Office to…
On International Domestic Workers’ Day 2024, Kalayaan releases our new report, 12 years of modern slavery: the…
By Becca Hirst, Community Engagement Lead for Kalayaan. On 3 April 2024, Kalayaan hosted a coffee morning…
Our Policy Officer, Sophie Levack, attended and made a statement at the Human Rights Committee’s 140th Session…
Today, ahead of the Human Trafficking Foundation’s forum held at Linklaters, Kalayaan is launching our new report,…
Click below to read an article by our Trustee Natalie Sedacca: The family worker exemption revisited: a sustained…
‘Regina’ (not her real name) was brought to the UK by an employer to work in their private…
Mira (names and identifying features have been changed) ‘Mira’ was waiting outside Kalayaan in tears with a small…
KALAYAAN case id: 3294 Susi (name and identifying details have been changed) came to the UK from Qatar…
Kalayaan client ID 3465 Case Study ‘Rupa’ (name and identifying details have been changed) Rupa arrived at Kalayaan…
Sara- original ODW visa case study Sara, an Indian national, was bought to the UK from Kuwait…
“Without being able to access the NRM via a first responder, survivors remain at unaccepta…
In this episode, the EbE podcast, in collaboration with Kalayaan, dives into the ongoing cam…
Peers say protections have been undermined by three immigration acts passed by the previous…
Duncan Lewis Solicitors brought a judicial review claim against the Lord Chancellor in June…