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We are grateful to Maha Sadar of @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social for sharing the written arguments she has developed for the purpose of creating a resource for colleagues. The guide and template (bit.ly/4qQqp4a) is available as part of our Albanian asylum claims toolkit: bit.ly/47G1cjV

The decision in ES directly engages with evidence contained in the Home Office’s own CPINs and fact-finding material, and finds that this evidence supports the proposition that trafficked Albanian men do in fact meet the statutory definition of a PSG.

The Home Office frequently argues that male victims of trafficking lack a “distinct identity” in Albania under the new definition of "particular social group" (PSG) contained in Section 33 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

The Home Office frequently argues that male victims of trafficking lack a “distinct identity” in Albania under the new definition of "particular social group" (PSG) contained in Section 33 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

"These children should be playing football in the park and preparing for their GCSEs, not servicing trafficking gangs in conditions we know include being chained to furniture, physically and sexually assaulted, and punished by being starved of food” - MiCLU solicitor Esme Madill.

Many of the missing children arrived in small boats or hidden in the backs of lorries and are thought to have been taken by traffickers. More needs to be done to find them and stop this repeating: "Their mental and physical health is permanently harmed by the abuse they experience during this time."

While the grant rate has reduced sharply, nothing has changed on the ground in Albania. This politicisation of what should be evidence-driven case guidelines raises urgent questions about how the government may be complicit in the further exploitation of trafficking victims. bit.ly/4nYOAez