A care worker recruited during the pandemic has been recognised as a victim of human trafficking after being deceived, exploited and forced into debt bondage under the Health and Care visa system.

Eight survivors of trafficking have received £247,417 in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) in a groundbreaking project from ATLEU.

If you are someone with lived experience of human trafficking/modern slavery and migration our new paid work opportunity may be right for you.

The Court of Appeal found that the Employment Tribunal had been correct in finding that Ms Alhayali’s employment was not an exercise of sovereign function.

The Seasonal Worker Visa scheme as currently designed puts workers at risk of serious exploitation and abuse including debt bondage, trafficking and forced labour.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.