Everyone on the IMSA® Project Board is really pleased to welcome @medailletrust.bsky.social to the IMSA Model pilot, an initiative through which trained and accredited Independent Modern Slavery Advocates are being employed by more organisations across the UK.

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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.

Survivors of other complex crimes such as domestic abuse, sexual abuse and stalking have access to accredited, dedicated professionals to advocate alongside them. However, this vital provision is not yet available to adult survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK.

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.

‘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.

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...I was in good company and it was great to see some of my favorite leaders in the anti-trafficking space there!"

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."

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.

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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

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...

It's for our Extreme Challenge (Oct '24), which raised income for anti-trafficking work. In the words of one trekker who took on this challenge in the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa: "It nearly broke me... That was hard. The hardest thing I’ve ever done, I think.”

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.

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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.⁠

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.

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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.
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We agree with our colleagues at UNICEF, who instituted this day to mark the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, that "upholding children’s rights is the compass to a better world – today, tomorrow and into the future".

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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

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