Learn more about the issues facing migrant domestic workers in the UK by checking out our Resource bank featuring Kalayaan publications, briefings, submissions and joint letters.
Briefing by Kalayaan and other non-statutory First Responders highlighting the need for more non-statutory First Responders to ensure the efficient referral of potential victims of modern slavery into the National Referral Mechanism to receive recovery support and to be formally identified as victims.
Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group Non-Statutory First Responder Capacity: 2024 Briefing and Analysis
2011 report into the Overseas Domestic Worker Visa drawing on a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. The research identifies the importance of a channel of migration for migrant domestic workers (MDWs) to the UK which confirms the route works as intended.
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Report published in response to the pressing need to review the numbers of, and available resources to, designated First Responder Organisations in the UK. It came after Kalayaan issued an urgent Public Announcement with our concerns on 30 January 2023.
Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) for its 77th Session focusing on preventing labour exploitation, modern slavery, trafficking, and UK’s compliance with the International Covenant.
Submission from UK organisations to the call of the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. Response on migrant domestic workers and trafficking in person: prevention, rights protection and access to justice.
Consultation response to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill March 2025 by the Labour Exploitation Advisory Group (LEAG) calling for more support for people in, or at risk of, severe forms of labour exploitation.
Read our joint response to the Consultation by the Ministry of Justice, Civil Legal Aid: Towards a Sustainable Future is by 16 civil society organisations working on trafficking and modern slavery March 2025
