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.
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
In July 2025, Migrant Domestic Workers from our community wrote to MPs asking for protection from re-trafficking. Read our briefing to learn more.
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Our 2024 report argues that UK government policy for the past 12 years has stripped migrant domestic workers of labour law rights, creating a “smokescreen” that excuses state inaction on abuse and exploitation.
