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Anti-Slavery International
  • DEFINITION
  • GUIDANCE
  • RISK MAPPING TOOL / INDEX
  • TRAINING /
    CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
  • ADVOCACY PLATFORM
Overview

Founded in 1839, Anti-Slavery International is the oldest international human rights organisation in the world. Today, they draw on their experience to work to eliminate all forms of slavery and slavery-like practices throughout the world. Instead, they deal with the root causes of slavery and its consequences to achieve sustainable change.

Key objectives:

  • Secure the responsiveness and accountability of duty bearers.
  • Empower people affected by slavery to claim their rights.
  • Achieve rejection of the social norms and attitudes perpetuating slavery.

Theory of Change:

https://www.antislavery.org/wp-content/
uploads/2017/02/ASI-ToC-diagram.pdf

Activities / Outputs / Results

ASI has a unique multi-level approach:

  • Enabling people to leave slavery through frontline projects with local partners (i.e. 24h hotline for people to ask for help, filing legal cases with authorities)
  • Helping victims of slavery with frontline work ensuring they access the psychological and legal support they need to recover and obtain justice and compensation (by providing financial support, shelter and vocational training, filing cases in courts).
  • Interactive mapping showing products produced through slavery: https://productsofslavery.org
  • Reports and resources on a wide spectrum of slavery-related topics.
  • Working at grassroots level to help communities demand respect for their human rights and tackle the root causes of slavery through access to education and the elimination of caste and gender inequality.
  • Advocating and lobbying within countries for legislation, policy and practice to end and prevent slavery.
  • International policy work and campaigning – lobbying and holding to account international institutions such as the UN, the EU, the AU and the ILO, as well as businesses and other organisations.
  • Collecting information and publishing reports about human rights abuses, bringing them to the attention of the public and promoting public action to end them through media work and supporter campaigns.

Note:

Over the last financial 2020 year ASI worked to strengthen 21 overseas anti-slavery partners 10 projects in 10 countries. They directly supported 23,627 people to build lives free from slavery.

ASI is often the first to identify new forms of slavery and its root causes. They are innovative and comprehensive in approach, innovative TOC.