What is your organisation doing to mark Anti-Slavery Week, 13th-19th Oct? For ideas & free resources to show your commitment to protecting your operations and supply chains against modern slavery, take a look at Slave-Free Alliance's Digital Resources Pack: www.slavefreealliance.org/anti-slavery...

Next week's Anti-Slavery Week, the lead-up to Anti-Slavery Day on 18th Oct. We're running 2 free webinars during the week and we hope you can join! Webinar 1 is on global risk trends around human rights in supply chains. Info & sign up: www.slavefreealliance.org/duediligence-webinar1-registration

📣 Call for Proposals: The Independent Modern Slavery Advocate® (IMSA®) Model Development Project is seeking an experienced evaluation team to deliver a comprehensive independent evaluation of the second stage of the model. hopeforjustice.org/news/call-fo...

For Anti-Slavery Week 2025, businesses & organisations are asking us how they can participate this year. If you want to do something to raise awareness with your colleagues, customers and partners, we can help! Join us online on Tues 16th September: www.slavefreealliance.org/asw2025-getting-ready/

The IMSA Project Board welcomes Bawso as the latest organisation to join the IMSA Model Development Project 🎉 The Independent Modern Slavery Advocacy (IMSA®) Model is about ensuring survivors of modern slavery across the UK have access to an accredited independent advocate hopeforjustice.org/imsa/

Thank you to MP Sarah Champion for reading and promoting our report. We're proud of this model of independent advocacy and how survivors are shaping it. We're excited to see the model piloted nationally and hope this will be incorporated into the UK's national framework & response to modern slavery.

Today marks the official launch of a pilot to ensure that survivors of modern slavery across the UK have access to an accredited independent advocate. The launch event, ‘Independent Modern Slavery Advocacy: Working Together for Lasting Change’, is taking place in London and online.

If this gang was also responsible for "heinous levels of exploitation", as suggested in the article, then they are traffickers, not smugglers. These differences matter. It's concerning how frequently media (and even ministers!) get smuggling and trafficking confused. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thanks to Phillipa Roberts and Jane Lasonder for sharing their expertise at the UNODC's Voices of Resilience conference in Vienna. The event was all about survivor perspectives, strengthening collaboration and improving policies and protection systems. hopeforjustice.org/news/voices-...

Independent advocacy for survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking can be a transformational force for good, for the person and for wider society – we have seen its value time and again.

‘Independent Modern Slavery Advocacy: Working Together for Lasting Change’, in-person & online, Tues 8 July. Learn how 23 UK organisations will work towards a shared aim: for every modern slavery survivor to have access to an accredited, independent advocate. hopeforjustice.org/news/indepen...

Useful insights in this report from the UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. We're pleased 2 areas of our work are highlighted: 1) Our 'Beyond Survival' work, which explores what justice means to survivors of modern slavery and their experiences of accessing support they need for their recovery

Our U.S. Program Director, Sarah Butler, shares a fantastic update here! "It was an honor to be invited to the White House yesterday to celebrate the signing of the TAKE IT DOWN Act—a vital piece of bipartisan legislation that Hope for Justice proudly endorses and strongly supports."

Human trafficking. One of the most distressing and important conversations I have listened to recently. But listening to Elaine Jones from @hopeforjustice.bsky.social shines a light in the dark. We can all carry some of that light. 🙏 @cybersisters.bsky.social 💪👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwEh...

Fantastic interview with our Chief Operating Officer, Elaine Jones, on the Cyber Sisters podcast. Learn how traffickers move victims and money across borders and platforms, and how tech, law enforcement, and education must unite to tackle this issue head-on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwEh...

Our work was repeatedly raised in Parliament, including by Home Office Minister Jess Phillips MP, who said: “Hope for Justice is very much part of the core group of those we take advice from in the Department, and I speak to Euan [Fraser] regularly.” hopeforjustice.org/news/importa...

Hope for Justice's Euan Fraser marks 10 years since the UK's Modern Slavery Act passed into law, exploring the initially groundbreaking changes and the hurdles and reversals in the years since: hopeforjustice.org/news/10-year...

218 years ago, the UK passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. 25th March is marked each year as The International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 📷: The Permanent Memorial to Honor the Victims of Slavery at UN Headquarters. Chris Allan/Adobe Stock

“Forced labour is endemic in [Xinjiang, China]. The Great British Energy Bill provides an ideal vehicle to ensure that the green transition is not built on the back of contemporary slaves.” A strong argument by Labour MP Alex Sobel – we urge ministers to listen. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Staggering failures of child protection here, and "well, some of them might not have been trafficked" scarcely seems much of a response

A man who was trafficked to the UK and forced to live in a basement has been compensated for injuries he was left with after 16 years of exploitation on construction sites. Following a five-year legal battle, he's been awarded £73,000. Read Maciej's* story: hopeforjustice.org/news/compens...

We're off with our #PECconference, with full house of participants. As our director Murray Hunt remarked, it's heartening to see so many people caring about this issue amongst the general madness around us

Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance have made recommendations to the Department of Health over regulations to tackle exploitation in NHS procurement, including mandatory human rights due diligence. Our recommendations in full are at: hopeforjustice.org/news/our-vie...

We were thrilled to be shortlisted for the Donorfy 'Outstanding Fundraising Campaign' Award—and now, a public vote will determine the winner! Please go to the link below and click VOTE HOPE FOR JUSTICE. It only takes a second. donorfy.com/outstanding-...

Proud that the Ethiopian Government acknowledges our “outstanding contribution” to shelter services.⁠ The Certificate of Appreciation from the Ministry of Justice references Hope for Justice's work with women and children subjected to gender-based violence during their trafficking and exploitation.⁠

Read the policy briefing: www.modernslaverypec.org/resources/re...

We are delighted that the new Strategic Plan issued by the UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Eleanor Lyons, contains such a strong endorsement of independent advocacy and its importance for survivors. antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/media/s0gjtq...

The Independent Modern Slavery Advocate® (IMSA®) Project Board are delighted to announce that we have been successful in our application for National Lottery funding. The IMSA® Project will receive £999,850 over four years from The National Lottery Community Fund. hopeforjustice.org/news/1m-nati...

Our response to the new Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill is at the link. We welcome elements of the Bill, but there is more to be done to ensure the rights of survivors and those at risk of modern slavery are adequately protected. hopeforjustice.org/news/border-...

A survivor of modern slavery who is being supported by Hope for Justice and law firm Turpin Miller has won a legal battle against a city council that wanted to move him many miles away from the network of friends and support he had built up over four years. hopeforjustice.org/news/traffic...

We warmly welcome our new Ethiopia Country Director, Sosina Yirga, to the team! 🙌🎉 In this interview, she shares her hopes for the coming year and some of the challenges the team are facing in our anti-trafficking programmes in Ethiopia. hopeforjustice.org/news/much-mo...

Hope for Justice is part of a major joint submission to GRETA, on how the UK can improve its response to human trafficking. With partners, we address in the document how the UK has "regrettably taken many steps back" in addressing modern slavery. hopeforjustice.org/news/greta-h...

We welcome the UK Government’s response to the House of Lords Committee’s review of the Modern Slavery Act. We'll work with the Government to improve the response to modern slavery to better protect those at risk of exploitation and to support survivors hopeforjustice.org/news/uk-gove...

There are so many simple and safe ways to give to Hope for Justice and help a victim or survivor of human trafficking this Christmas. Give securely online via card, set up a Direct Debit, or give by methods like stocks & shares, cheque, bank transfer and even cryptocurrency www.hfj.org/give

Loretta's story is shocking but sadly it shares many similar elements with those we hear every day from the survivors we work with at Hope for Justice. Thank you to her for sharing this and the work of our colleagues at Migrant Help. www.bigissue.com/news/modern-...

The boys at one of our Lighthouse shelters have been acting out legal proceedings, in a simulation to prepare them for participating in live court cases. They took on roles within the courtroom, including police officer, judge, witness, clerk and counsellor. hopeforjustice.org/news/boys-co...

Today is #WorldChildrensDay. Hope for Justice helps tens of thousands of children a year through services like our Lighthouse shelters for exploited and at-risk children, and through community education & anti-trafficking initiatives Photo: Children making animal masks at our Uganda Lighthouse

Hope for Justice is proud to be featured today by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for the impact of our work, as part of International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime. whatson.unodc.org/whatson/en/j...

We were pleased to hear the UK's renewed commitment to tackling human trafficking as part of the PM's Interpol speech. We welcome the promise that the UK will never withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, which expressly prohibits modern slavery hopeforjustice.org/news/interpo...

One of Hope for Justice’s key priorities is the success of the IMSA Project, which is designed to ensure that survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery have access to accredited, independent advocacy throughout the UK through a network of Independent Modern Slavery Advocates* (IMSAs).

At Hope for Justice, we run anti-trafficking projects all over the world, working directly with victims and survivors. Together we can bring freedom to those trapped in modern slavery. Join us on our mission! hopeforjustice.org/get-involved