Publications

Request to Mayoral candidates to Prioritise Modern Slavery

Letter to Felicity Buchan, MP for Kensington

Speech delivered at the Human Rights Committee in Geneva

Report: The Continuum of Exploitation

Open letter: Kalayaan, TUC and others write to Government on employment tribunal fees

Report: The National Referral Mechanism: Near Breaking Point, Progress Report 2024: One Year On

Submission: UN Human Rights Committee

2024 Policy Briefing

Submission: Joint civil society shadow submission to GRETA

Statement: Delays in the NRM Decision-Making Process

Submission: Oral evidence to the Joint Committee Inquiry into Human Rights at Work

Submission: To the Trades Union Conference for ILO Committee of Experts

Statement: Joint civil society statement on the passage of the Illegal Migration Act

Submission: ATMG evidence to Joint Committee on Human Rights scrutinising the 'Illegal Migration' Bill

Submission: Written evidence to Joint Committee Inquiry into Human Rights at Work

Submission: LEAG written evidence to Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Trafficking

Submission: ATMG written evidence to Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Trafficking

Submission: Written evidence to Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Trafficking

Open letter to the Prime Minister, urging him to withdraw the 'Illegal Migration' Bill

Open letter re the abuse and exploitation of migrant farm workers

The Family Worker Exemption: A modern slavery loophole still in place a year after the Government pledged to remove it

Speech: Call for more First Responder Organisations, delivered at the Human Trafficking Foundation's Forum

Report: The National Referral Mechanism: Near Breaking Point

Open letter to Darren Jones MP re the Family Worker Exemption

Open letter to Kemi Badenoch MP re the Family Worker Exemption

Open letter to Kevin Hollinrake MP re the Family Worker Exemption

Statement: Why the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is at breaking point

Statement: Anti-Trafficking Sector response to United Nations' press release

Open letter to Grant Shapps MP re the Family Worker Exemption

Joint Submission: Response to Public Bill Committee Call for Evidence on the Retained EU Law Bill

Open letter to Prime Minister and Home Secretary about plans to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda

Joint Submission: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Universal Periodic Review of the United Kingdom

Joint Submission: Fourth Cycle for the Universal Periodic Review of the United Kingdom

Minister for Safeguarding responds to joint response sent on Secure Reporting

Submission: Anti-trafficking Sector response to the Human Rights Act Reform Consultation

Joint Statement: In response to the Home Office review into Secure Reporting

Home Secretary responds to CEO letter on the Borders Bill

Open letter: Repeat call to UK Government to reinstate the original ODW visa

Statement: Detention Taskforce and others re the creation of the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority

Open letter: 100+ CEOs to MPs raising concerns over the Borders Bill

Statement: Anti-Slavery Sector's concerns on Nationality and Borders Bill

Submission: Kalayaan's evidence to the Low Pay Commission

Open Statement: Call for ratification of International Labour Organization's Convention 189

Minister for Future Borders and Immigration responds to calls for reinstatement of the original ODW visa

Submission: Kalayaan's submission to the consultation on the New Plan For Immigration

Template letter to MP - For Supporters (PDF)

Template letter to MP - For Workers (PDF)

Template letter to MP - For Supporters (Word)

Template letter to MP - For Workers (Word)

Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment responds to Kalayaan's letter about the vaccine programme

Briefing: Access to work for survivors of slavery to enable independence and sustainable freedom

Open letter: Call to UK Government demanding reinstatement of the original ODW visa

Government response to petition calling for reinstatement of the original ODW visa

Submission: Kalayaan's evidence to the Independent Human Rights Act Review

Open letter to Ministers regarding post pandemic childcare

Joint submission: ATMG and others' response to 2021 US Trafficking In Persons Report

Minister for Safeguarding responds to open letter on protections for trafficking victims

Open letter to Secretary of State Oliver Dowden re National Data Strategy and its impact on migrants and refugees

Open letter to Ministers to release people held in prison under immigration powers

Letter to Ministers regarding migrant domestic workers and the UK's Covid vaccine programme

Open letter to Priti Patel Home Secretary to scrap rules for rough sleepers at risk of removal

Open letter to Priti Patel Home Secretary to suspend immigration reporting

Open letter to Boris Johnson on the protections needed for victims of trafficking

Submission: Kalayaan's evidence to the Justice Committee’s Future of Legal Aid inquiry

Minister for Safeguarding responds to Kalayaan's concerns about coronavirus

Minister for Future Borders and Immigration responds to Kalayaan's campaign regarding access to work for slavery survivors

Kalayaan's response to Ministers with request to safeguard all migrant domestic workers during the pandemic

Open letter to Robert Jenrick Secretary of State for Housing to extend the ‘Everyone In’ policy

Report: Protection and safeguarding of survivors of trafficking during coronavirus

Open letter to Home Secretary and Chancellor to increase asylum support rates in response to coronavirus

Letter to Ministers on the protections needed for migrant domestic workers during coronavirus

Joint civil society report on trafficking and modern slavery in the UK to the UN Human Rights Committee

Submission: UK Civil Society evidence to GRETA's Third Evaluation Round

Statement: Government Stakeholder Group Members on ODW Visa

Immigration Update: issued at Kalayaan's AGM (17 November 2019)

Open letter to Immigration Minister regarding Kalayaan's campaign on access to work for slavery survivors

Report: Dignity, not destitution: The impact of differential rights of work for MDWs referred to the NRM

ATMG Report: Real lives, real people: Ten years of advocacy for victims of slavery in the UK

Civil Society Alternative Report: UK's Implementation of UN Convention against Torture

Position Paper: How the ODW visa prevents trafficking and exploitation

Submission to Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women

ATMG Report: Before the harm is done: Examining the UK's response to the prevention of trafficking

Submission: Kalayaan's evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on Modern Slavery

Submission: Kalayaan's evidence for the UN Special Rapporteur: Domestic servitude of migrant domestic workers

Information Meetings Pilot – Proposed Minimum Standards

LEAG Report: Lost in transition: Brexit and labour exploitation

ATMG Report: Brexit and the UK’s fight against modern slavery

Briefing: Counting the days: A study of Kalayaan’s referrals into the National Referral Mechanism in 2015

Submission for the UN Special Rapporteur: Access to Justice and Remedy

Report: Long term support recommendations for adult survivors of trafficking

ATMG Report: Class Acts? Examining modern slavery legislation across the UK

Joint Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of the United Kingdom - Third cycle

Submission for the ICIBI: the identification of potential victims of modern slavery at the UK Border

The Prohibition of Human Trafficking and Diplomatic Immunity - by Oxford Pro Bono Publico

Britain's forgotten slaves; Migrant domestic workers in the UK three years after the introduction of the tied ODW visa

ILPA Briefing for Modern Slavery Bill

Human Rights Joint Committee - Third Report

Still enslaved: The migrant domestic workers who are trapped by the immigration rules

Non priority slaves?

Slavery by another name: the tied migrant domestic worker visa

Human Luggage: lives of neo-bondage and servitude

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

Kalayaan response to consultation – questions on MDWs

The impact of proposals to abolish the Overseas Domestic Worker visa

It's a numbers game... could we please use the right ones?

Ending the abuse: Policies that work to protect migrant domestic workers (report)

Ending the abuse: Policies that work to protect migrant domestic workers (briefing)

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery

Law enforcement response to trafficking for domestic servitude

Care and Immigration: migrant care workers in private households

Care and Immigration (Executive Summary)

Care and Immigration (Stakeholder Guide)

The New Bonded Labour? The impact of proposed changes to the UK immigration system on migrant domestic workers

Kalayaan Briefing on Migrant Domestic Workers and Trafficking

Strategies against Human Trafficking

Health Project for Migrant Domestic Workers

The Passport Issue