External Publications

Walk Free's Global Slavery Index - Fifth Edition

Response: UK Government responds to Fourth Universal Periodic Review

Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) express comcern with 'Illegal Migration' Bill

Letter: Council of Europe Commissioner writes to UK Parliament re the 'Illegal Migration' Bill

Letter: ATLEU and others write to UK Government urging them to scrap the Family Worker Exemption

Letter: TUC writes to Suella Bravermen on the 'Illegal Migration' Bill

The Voice Of Domestic Workers Newsletter including comment on the NRM near on system collapse

Freedom United's coverage of UK's National Referral Mechanism reaching breaking point

Letter: Office for Statistics Regulation letter to Home Office re use of modern slavery data

Report: UK Labour Visa Schemes: Creating the Conditions for Exploitation?

Press Release: FLEX response to United Nations concerns

Press Release: United Nations concerns over UK's treatment of slavery survivors

Press Release: OSCE Special Representative visit and concerns on the UK

FLEX Briefing: Creating a safe and fair UK immigration policy for workers

Letter: Joint sector writes to the Office for Statistics Regulation re use of modern slavery data

Report: United Nations 'Universal Periodic Review' - Summary of stakeholder submissions - Fourth Cycle

Judgement: Supreme Court ruling on Basfar v Wong

Report: US Trafficking In Persons Report 2022

Blog: Focus on Labour Exploitation marks International Domestic Worker's Day

Communication: Special Rapporteurs write to UK Government on protections needed for ODWs

Announcement: UK Government to abolish the Family Worker Exemption

Report Stage (third day) of Nationality and Borders Bill, House of Lords

Parliamentary Question 126685: Government plans to review the ODW visa route

Committee Stage (fifth day) of Nationality and Borders Bill, House of Lords

Government press release on expansion of Health and Care Visa scheme

Report: Migration Advisory Committee's Annual Report 2021

Parliamentary Question 91901: Govt refusal to publish data relied on to maintain employment ban for asylum seekers

Response: Focus on Labour Exploitation responds to Home Office Review into data sharing

Response: Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner responds to Home Office Review into data sharing

Response: Domestic Abuse Commissioner responds to Home Office Review into data sharing

Review: Home Office review of data sharing: migrant victims and witnesses of crime

Report: Using ILO C189 to protect workers rights, by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

Report: Low Pay Commission Report

Ministerial statement: Review into asylum seeker right to work policy

Report: Re-trafficking: The current state of play by the Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner

Nationality and Borders Bill 2021: Thirteenth Sitting on Part 4, Modern Slavery

Nationality and Borders Bill 2021: Twelfth Sitting on Part 4, Modern Slavery

Letter: Chair of the Low Pay Commission to the Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP

Report summary: Low Pay Commission Summary of Findings

Report: GRETA's Third Evaluation Report on UK's implementation of Council of Europe Convention

Response: UK Government response to Special Rapporteurs communication

Report: US Trafficking In Persons Report

Communication: Special Rapporteurs write to UK Government on protections needed for ODWs

Human Rights Watch: Progress on Domestic Workers’ Rights, but Gaps Remain

Parliamentary Question HL15280: Information meetings for migrant domestic workers

Letter: Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner writes to Kevin Foster MP on ODWs

Report: 2020 Human Rights Report, the US Department of State

Westminster Hall Debate: Asylum Seekers and permission to work

Minister for Future Borders and Immigration on the future of the Overseas Domestic Worker visa

Parliamentary Question HL6880: Reviewing the ODW visa route to the UK

Report: Why giving people seeking asylum the right to work is common sense, by Lift The Ban

Response: UK Government responds to GRETA's Third Evaluation Round

Letter: Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner writes to Kevin Foster with concerns for ODWs

Report: UK Government's Annual Report on Modern Slavery

Parliamentary Question 275677: timeframe for planned ODW information sessions

UN Committee Against Torture - Examining UK's response to trafficking and abuse of migrant domestic workers

Report: Why people seeking asylum should have the right to work, by Lift the Ban

Protecting migrant workers from exploitation in the EU: boosting workplace inspections

Report: Domestic servitude of migrant domestic workers, by UN Special Rapporteurs

Migrant domestic workers and the Global Slavery Index 2018

Out of sight: migrant women exploited in domestic work

Women in the workplace: FLEX's five-point plan to combat exploitation

Diplomats not immune from breaching workers’ rights

Immunity vs the rights of domestic workers: the impact of two recent Supreme Court judgments

The limits of diplomatic immunity in the age of human trafficking: The Supreme Court in Reyes v Al-Malki

Supreme Court: state immunity rules incompatible with Article 6 ECHR

Anti-trafficking victories in Supreme Court: Reyes and Benkharbouche

Report: United Nations 'Universal Periodic Review' of the UK - Third Cycle

Ministerial statement in response to James Ewins' review on ODWs

Report: Day 46: Life after the Safe House for trafficked victims?

Report: GRETA's Second Evaluation Report on UK's implementation of Council of Europe Convention

Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner's recommendations on the right of ODWs to change employer and renew their visa

A Right to Change Employer for Overseas Domestic Workers

Independent Review of the Overseas Domestic Worker Visa by James Ewins QC

Active Industrial Citizenship of Domestic Workers: Lessons Learned from Unionizing Attempts in Israel and the United Kingdom

Draft Modern Slavery Bill Joint Committee (report)

Hidden Away: Abuses against migrant domestic workers in the UK.

Illegality, Human Rights and Employment: A Watershed Moment for the United Kingdom Supreme Court?

The Sectoral Regulatory Regime: When Work Migration Controls and the Sectorally Differentiated Labour Market Meet.

Hidden in plain sight. Three years on: Updated analysis of UK measures to protect trafficked persons

What is to be done for Migrant Domestic Workers?

Establishing Britain as a world leader in the fight against modern slavery. Report of the Modern Slavery Bill Evidence Review

Shadow City. Exposing Human Trafficking in Everyday London

It Happens Here Equipping the United Kingdon to fight modern slavery

Beyond borders: Human trafficking from Nigeria to the UK

Human Rights for Precarious Workers: The legislative precariousness of domestic labor

Country report on trafficking in the UK - OSCE

United Nations 'Universal Periodic Review' of the UK - Second Cycle

All Change: Preventing Trafficking in the UK

Service not Servitude

Forced Labour and UK Immigration Policy:Status Matters?

Human Trafficking Handbook: Recognising Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery in the UK

Protecting Migrant Women in the Labour Market

A Chance to be Free: Tackling Modern Day Slavery final report

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences

"Wrong Kind of Victim?" One Year On: An analysis of UK measures to protect trafficked persons

The Trade in Human Beings: Human Trafficking in the UK

Towards an interpretation of the experiences of migrant domestic workers: A Cultural Psychology Approach

IBASURA! Down Down!

Perspectives of organising within and outside trade unions

UK Immigration Law and the position of migrant domestic workers

House of Lords, House of Commons. Joint Committee on Human Rights Report on Human Trafficking

Anti Slavery International Trafficking for forced labour UK country Report