Andrew Wallis OBE
@andrewwallis.bsky.social
CEO of Multi-Award Winning Charity Unseen. Support Liverpool Football Club & Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Varied & multiple views my own. World Citizen.
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A starter pack for anyone wanting to find organisations and individuals working to end modern slavery. Let me know if you want to be added or have escaped to here from the cesspit.
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‘A place of welcome’: Yorkshire town rallies round to help asylum seekers ❤️ Read www.ft.com/content/1d11...
‘A place of welcome’: Yorkshire town rallies round to help asylum seekers
Churches and community groups in Northallerton provide food, clothing and company for refugee families
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December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
‘A place of welcome’: Yorkshire town rallies round to help asylum seekers ❤️ Read www.ft.com/content/1d11...
But in more hopeful #modernslavery news, @unseenuk.bsky.social, the Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner, Omnia LLP, and Forward Global are proposing effective legislation to tackle #humanrights and #forcedlabour abuses in supply chains uk.news.yahoo.com/warning-over...
Warning over Christmas presents made by slaves
Britain is at risk of becoming a “dumping ground” for Christmas presents produced by slave labour, the modern slavery commissioner has warned.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
But in more hopeful #modernslavery news, @unseenuk.bsky.social, the Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner, Omnia LLP, and Forward Global are proposing effective legislation to tackle #humanrights and #forcedlabour abuses in supply chains uk.news.yahoo.com/warning-over...
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Britain’s economy has been damaged by Brexit. But what should ministers do about it?
Britain’s economy has been damaged by Brexit. But what should ministers do about it?
The idea of a customs union has gained traction, but agreeing a deal would be far from straightforward
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December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Britain’s economy has been damaged by Brexit. But what should ministers do about it?
RIP Chris Rea
That’s put a dampener on Christmas but will guarantee multiple plays of Driving Hone for Christmas.
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That’s put a dampener on Christmas but will guarantee multiple plays of Driving Hone for Christmas.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Chris Rea: Driving Home for Christmas singer dies aged 74
A statement from his wife and two children says he
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December 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
RIP Chris Rea
That’s put a dampener on Christmas but will guarantee multiple plays of Driving Hone for Christmas.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
That’s put a dampener on Christmas but will guarantee multiple plays of Driving Hone for Christmas.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Well, well, well. Backs up what the sector has been saying for years.
@unseenuk.bsky.social
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#modernslavery
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#modernslavery
UK asylum seekers not widely abusing modern slavery rules, report finds
Exclusive: Thinktank’s findings undermine successive home secretaries’ statements about misuse of system in England and Wales
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December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Well, well, well. Backs up what the sector has been saying for years.
@unseenuk.bsky.social
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#modernslavery
@unseenuk.bsky.social
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#modernslavery
From campaigns and sector-leading research to powerful fundraising efforts, business and frontline support, 2025 has shown what can be achieved when survivors, supporters, professionals and organisations unite behind the shared goal of ending #modernslavery. www.unseenuk.org/tackling-mod...
Tackling modern slavery - breakthrough moments from 2025 and why we must do more - Unseen
From campaigns and sector-leading research to powerful fundraising efforts, business and frontline support, 2025 has shown what can be achieved when survivors, supporters, professionals and organisati...
www.unseenuk.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
From campaigns and sector-leading research to powerful fundraising efforts, business and frontline support, 2025 has shown what can be achieved when survivors, supporters, professionals and organisations unite behind the shared goal of ending #modernslavery. www.unseenuk.org/tackling-mod...
Nigel Farage told to apologise by 26 of his school contemporaries @reform-uk-official.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage told to apologise by 26 of his school contemporaries
Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegations
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December 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Nigel Farage told to apologise by 26 of his school contemporaries @reform-uk-official.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Britain is becoming a dumping ground for up to £20bn of Christmas decorations, toys and T-shirts made with forced labour — products that flood the UK market because current import rules lag behind the US and EU. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
Britain is a 'dumping ground' for £20bn in Christmas items made by modern slaves | LBC
The government's Independent Slavery Commissioner is calling on ministers to look at new laws to bring the UK in line with the US and EU, and to help give struggling British firms a boost too.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Britain is becoming a dumping ground for up to £20bn of Christmas decorations, toys and T-shirts made with forced labour — products that flood the UK market because current import rules lag behind the US and EU. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
Wonderfully prophetic town planning in the city of London - Trump Street adjacent to Russia Row.
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Wonderfully prophetic town planning in the city of London - Trump Street adjacent to Russia Row.
Check out #Untold Working Holidays Stranded in Paradise on @channel4.bsky.social. Glad to have contributed to the program.
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Undercover Working Holidays: UNTOLD
Tir Dhondy goes undercover in Ayia Napa, exposing working holidays that trap young workers
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December 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Check out #Untold Working Holidays Stranded in Paradise on @channel4.bsky.social. Glad to have contributed to the program.
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Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments. What say you @reform-uk-official.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
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December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments. What say you @reform-uk-official.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cutting funding for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) is more than budget-balancing — it endangers the global fight against #forcedlabour. It erodes tools used to protect vulnerable workers worldwide. 🧵
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Cuts to a Little-Known U.S. Agency Undermine the Global Fight Against Forced Labor | JD Supra
For several decades, the United States has strengthened its efforts to stringently enforce anti-trafficking statutes at home with practical...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Cutting funding for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) is more than budget-balancing — it endangers the global fight against #forcedlabour. It erodes tools used to protect vulnerable workers worldwide. 🧵
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Can we get this flipping petition to 100,000?? We really need to know how Russia has fucked up our country and who enabled it ( farage? Just asking the question)
I've signed. Have you?
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Can we get this flipping petition to 100,000?? We really need to know how Russia has fucked up our country and who enabled it ( farage? Just asking the question)
I’ve always got time to listen/read what Luis C.deBaca has to say on the subject of #humantrafficking. Read more here www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
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Is Trump 2.0 killing off US anti-trafficking work?
The White House is dangerously close to making anti-trafficking what the critics always said it was: flash and fluff
www.opendemocracy.net
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I’ve always got time to listen/read what Luis C.deBaca has to say on the subject of #humantrafficking. Read more here www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
@opendemocracy.net
@opendemocracy.net
Three days in Vienna speaking at the OSCE at the Partnership between Civil Society and Public Sector in the Implementation of the Ukraine’s State Programme on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings.
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Three days in Vienna speaking at the OSCE at the Partnership between Civil Society and Public Sector in the Implementation of the Ukraine’s State Programme on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings.
Joint letter to Shabana Mahmood, UK Home Secretary, from the CEOs of the leading anti slavery organisations calling on her to rethink the conflation of modern slavery and immigration. Please read and share widely. Thank you! www.unseenuk.org/joint-statem...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Joint statement from CEOs on modern slavery protections and the 'Restoring order and control' policy paper - Unseen
In response to the UK government’s recent policy paper, Restoring order and control (November 2025), the CEOs of leading anti-slavery charities have written to the Home Secretary to raise concerns abo...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Joint letter to Shabana Mahmood, UK Home Secretary, from the CEOs of the leading anti slavery organisations calling on her to rethink the conflation of modern slavery and immigration. Please read and share widely. Thank you! www.unseenuk.org/joint-statem...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ongoing problems in the construction sector highlighted by @unseenuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
UK construction workers at risk from modern slavery, charity warns
Helpline run by Unseen receives hundreds of calls a year from potential victims of exploitation
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November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ongoing problems in the construction sector highlighted by @unseenuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Transparency drives performance. The CCLA benchmark proves that when #modernslavery performance becomes visible and comparable, companies improve.
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Transparency drives performance. The CCLA benchmark proves that when #modernslavery performance becomes visible and comparable, companies improve.
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The western Chinese region of Xinjiang dramatically increased tomato cultivation and processing in recent years, but slumping sales to Italy and other western European markets have left it sitting on a vast stockpile of unsold paste. on.ft.com/4i5bFtZ
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The western Chinese region of Xinjiang dramatically increased tomato cultivation and processing in recent years, but slumping sales to Italy and other western European markets have left it sitting on a vast stockpile of unsold paste. on.ft.com/4i5bFtZ
The ongoing problems with the UK’s Season Workers Scheme - time for a radical overhaul? www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Why major unions refuse to organise seasonal farm workers
Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The ongoing problems with the UK’s Season Workers Scheme - time for a radical overhaul? www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
#ModernSlavery is transnational, but it is not immigration @teamlabouruk.bsky.social www.rocu.police.uk/news/2025/no...
International arrests in Cambridge-linked slavery and trafficking investigation
Police in Romania have arrested three men as part of ongoing enquiries into a suspected modern slavery and human trafficking network in Cambridge.
www.rocu.police.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#ModernSlavery is transnational, but it is not immigration @teamlabouruk.bsky.social www.rocu.police.uk/news/2025/no...
Record number of victims of #modernslavery being identified in the UK but access to support services harder than ever. Can someone square that circle?
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Reports of modern slavery in UK hit record highs
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November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Record number of victims of #modernslavery being identified in the UK but access to support services harder than ever. Can someone square that circle?
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