Victim protection

Dame Margaret Anstee: Shattering Ceilings, Championing Change

The Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) is excited to host our 8th Annual Symposium, covering neglected areas of attention in the struggle to address in a sustainable manner the challenges of Human Trafficking in our time. This year’s symposium themes of “Land, Widows and Wombs: A Gendered Assets Approach to ‘Enabling …

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Old Chestnuts revisited : the link between quality Victim Support and effective Prosecutions

As the old year turned into the new, a significant report emerged at Westminster which is worth the consideration of all those working in the fight against Human Trafficking in all its manifestations. One of the concerns which the former Anti Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland expressed around the UKs response to the growing number of …

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Major legal aid provider hit by slow Government payments.

On the 15th June 2010 – yesterday the Trustees of Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ) signed papers to place the charity into administration as a result of a cash flow problem created by late payment of legal aid by the Legal Services Commission. The administrators, BDO, will this afternoon on the 16th June 2010 assume …

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