Seasonal Worker Visa drives debt bondage and exploitation
The Seasonal Worker Visa scheme as currently designed puts workers at risk of serious exploitation and abuse including debt bondage, trafficking and forced labour.
Government actions pushing more survivors of trafficking into insecure immigration status
Just 4% of trafficking victims are granted permission to stay in the UK after escaping exploitation, reveals our new report, produced with Helen Bamber Foundation and EPCAT UK.
New report calls on government to involve survivors of trafficking and slavery when they develop law and policy
A new report, published today, calls on the government to make sweeping changes to the law and systems that impact survivors of trafficking and modern slavery.
Overseas Domestic Workers: Key case timeline
This International Domestic Workers week, we’ve compiled a timeline of the key cases that have impacted the rights and protections of overseas domestic workers.
Cleaning up: Work needs to pay for domestic workers
Today on International Domestic Workers’ Day, we ask the UK government to listen to the voices of migrant domestic workers and reinstate their right to escape abuse by switching employers.
Modern Slavery sector unites to reject hostile government rhetoric and policy on immigration
ATLEU has joined 32 other organisations across the Modern Slavery sector in a joint open letter urging the government to treat everyone who makes their home in the UK with dignity and respect.
Legal challenge to government’s ‘Good Character’ policy supported by ATLEU
ATLEU has provided a statement in support of a legal challenge to the government’s new proposals to deny UK citizenship to those who arrive here illegally which will impact a large number of survivors of trafficking.
Rights and justice for all survivors: ATLEU’s response to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
UK law must enable all survivors of trafficking and modern slavery to access rights and justice, irrespective of their immigration status. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which enters report stage in the House of Commons this week, would do the opposite.
A legal advice crisis for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery
Together with 15 other organisations working on trafficking and modern slavery, we told the government about the particular legal advice crisis facing survivors and the changes needed to solve this crisis.
Court finds that the failure to grant legal aid for CICA claim is a breach of right to a fair hearing
The High Court has found that denial of legal aid to four victims of trafficking breached their rights under Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
‘Delays are silent killers’ Survivors speak out
Members of our Lived Experience Group, ATLEU Changemakers, discussed the problems that need to be fixed to create a more fair, compassionate and efficient system at an event last week hosted by Blackstone Chambers.
Call for action as evidence of worker exploitation rises
The Seasonal Worker Interest Group has today provided first hand evidence of the serious levels of abuse that workers are facing in its submission to the Office of the Director of Labour Market Enforcement (ODLME). .
