Anti Slavery Commissioner

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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A year in focus – March 2015-2016

A Year in Focus – March 31st 2016 – Transparency, Supply Chains, and the Modern Day Slavery Act 2015.   The year in focus in this instance is based on the anniversary of March 2015. For in this particular month – on the 26th March 2015, the UK government initiated through legislation, a deviation from …

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