Anti-Slavery International

Our vision and objectives

Anti-Slavery International works to eliminate all forms of modern slavery and slavery-like practices throughout the world.

Slavery still exists today: 40 million people are estimated to be trapped in modern slavery worldwide. 1 in 4 of them are children.

Our vision is to bring freedom for everyone, everywhere, always. Anti-Slavery International’s works collaboratively with international partner organisations and empowers those we work with at the grassroots level to bring about change at the policy level.

Our key objectives are:
• Making ending slavery everyone’s concern
• Act as an ally to survivors and people at risk of slavery, elevating their voice and experience to create radical change
• In collaboration with others, challenge and change law, policy, and practice so everyone, everywhere can be free from slavery.

What we do

In the UK, we lobby the government, help with litigation work on individual cases, advise on modern slavery in corporate supply chains and lead the UK’s efforts to combat trafficking, through The Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group (ATMG), a membership group of anti-trafficking organisation.

In Africa, we build schools to give children of slave decent education for the first time in Niger, tackle the practice of forced child begging in Senegal, and support child domestic workers in Tanzania and Ghana to escape abuse and build their lives in freedom.

In Mauritania, we support whole communities born into slavery to access their rights, safe and decent work, welfare, and legal protections.

In Asia, we challenge the practice of bonded labour in India, forced labour in the cotton industry in China and Turkmenistan, and protect workers migrating to work in the garment sector.

In Europe, we advocate against all forms of trafficking and exploitation in global supply chains, as well as work on a project with Vietnamese people who are trafficked to the UK for criminal activity.