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Our report #12YearsOfModernSlavery is out now and calls on the Government to reinstate rights to protect all migrant domestic workers in the UK 💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿
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A huge thank you to @hinabokharild.bsky.social for tabling & helping pass the London Assembly motion calling for more rights for migrant domestic workers to help them avoid exploitation! Thanks also to the other members for voting in support! Read the motion here: www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Last week our community came together to mark #AntiSlaveryDay. We served coffee, croissants & community cheer & heard from workers speaking about their artwork created around freedom hope & courage. Thanks to friends allies the Natasha Project & special guest @hinabokharid.bsky.social for joining us
October 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Very proud of Joy* a long-standing member of Kalayaan's campaign group, winning the Human Trafficking Foundation Award for Best Opinion Piece on Modern Slavery in parliament earlier this week.

Read Joy's story here:

metro.co.uk/2025/04/07/t...

#AntiSlaveryDay #ModernSlavery #SurvivorLeadership
October 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Thank you to @joepowell.bsky.social‬ for stopping by and talking to migrant domestic workers today about the need for rights to challenge abuse and prevent exploitation. We look forward to working with your office! 👏
July 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Today our Campaigning Group wrote to @rachelblakemp.bsky.social @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social @georgiagould.bsky.social @joepowell.bsky.social @emilythornberry.bsky.social about reforming the Overseas Domestic Worker visa to prevent trafficking & modern slavery. We look forward to their replies!
July 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Our thanks to Special Rapporteur Siobhán Mullally & UN colleagues for inviting us to attend today & speak to some of the issues the UK is battling with. It remains a difficult time for those working in the migration field, supporting those who have experienced workplace abuse. Our work continues.. 🇺🇳
June 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Pleased to be able to speak today at the United Nations HRC59 to the very real issues facing migrant domestic workers in the UK. We’re here to speak following our joint civil society submission with partners The Voice of Domestic Workers, @antislavery.org & @focusonlabour.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Today’s a big day for us! We'll shortly be speaking at the United Nations in Geneva for the Human Rights Council 59th Session, discussing migrant domestic workers & trafficking in persons, following Special Rapporteur Siobhán Mullally’s report out earlier this year: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/56
June 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Powerful footage from @itvnews.bsky.social shows exploitation suffered by migrant domestic workers inLondon due to the terms of their visa. Thanks to Ronke Phillips for highlighting scale of injustice & Helena Kennedy for explaining how amendments to Govts Borders Bill would create much neededchange
June 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Julieta: We, domestic workers should not have to wait until our work conditions amount to trafficking or slavery before the Govt takes action. Prevention is key. We ask the Govt to protect all domestic workers & allow us to extend our visa more than 6m
#DomesticWorkIsWork
#RestoreRights
#RatifyC189
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Precy: I want to start my story with a demand. Fix the Overseas Domestic Worker visa. Workers like me should be allowed to renew our visa. It’s impossible to find the courage to escape an abusive employer and find a new one in less than 6 months.
#DomesticWorkIsWork
#RestoreRights
#RatifyC189
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Patience: We are mothers who take care of other people’s children and homes, while we leave ours behind. We need to bond with our own children and our family.
#DomesticWorkIsWork
#RestoreRights
#RatifyC189
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Analisa: I hope you understand that domestic workers are human beings. The UK Government must ratify ILO Convention 189 and recognise domestic work as decent work. We are not robots. We are not slaves.
#DomesticWorkIsWork
#RestoreRights
#RatifyC189
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Dolores: I want people to understand. Domestic workers are not disposable. We are mothers, women, survivors. We deserve systems that protect us, not trap us.
#DomesticWorkIsWork
#RestoreRights
#RatifyC189
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Lord Mike German opens our event this afternoon discussing the upcoming Borders Bill and the crucial opportunities for legislative reform to prevent worker exploitation. We need compassion and humanity for this workforce and all migrants in the UK.
#DomesticWorkIsWork
#RestoreRights
#RatifyC189
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Everyone should be safe in their workplaces, that must be a universal right for everyone

On #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay we’re back @ Westminster with MDW campaigners to speak to politicians to demand action to prevent worker exploitation

#RestoreRights
#DomesticWorkIsWork
#RatifyConvention189
June 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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We've had a wonderful afternoon celebrating #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay with our community and allies @focusonlabour.bsky.social @effat.org @zrinka.bsky.social & others. Stay tuned for more from us this week as we continue our work to restore rights to this workforce 💪
June 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Today is #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay. We're headed to Westminster to celebrate with one another, share food, hear speeches and come together again to unite and call on the UK Government to fix the broken domestic workers visa and ratify ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers 💪
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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NEW: 20 Peers call on Minister Jess Philips to protect survivors of slavery from destitution & re-exploitation by allowing them the right to work, contribute to our economy, while plans to clear backlogs in the National Referral Mechanism take effect. Letter here: www.kalayaan.org.uk/campaign-pos...
May 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A full house today at Kalayaan, joined by workers and friends as we mark 13 long years of the harmful ODW visa. We spoke of our plans for the future and how we will work together to march forward, demand our rights back and ensure our voices are heard 💪
April 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Last week, in a room filled with powerful voices, migrant domestic workers gathered for Kalayaan's first Campaigning Group meeting of the year, turning #InternationalWomensDay into a declaration of resilience. Check out our video below for what we got up to!
March 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Ahead of International Women's Day, privileged to hear from a group of spokeswomen speaking about the resilience & courage they found in themselves & in their community after winding up trapped working for abusive employers. Thanks to The Voice of Domestic Workers & @sounddeliverymedia.bsky.social 👏
March 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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NEWS: 11 Peers write to @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social requesting she grant the right to work for all survivors in the NRM

www.kalayaan.org.uk/campaign-pos...

We thank the signatories for their support & look forward to working with the HO to implement this change that would benefit all survivors
February 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Hello Bluesky 👋 happy to be here! Our first post & we wanted to share news with the appointment of our new Chief Executive Officer Hannah Billington who begins with us in March. We can't wait for her to join us & lead Kalayaan into our next exciting phase championing rights for migrants workers 💪
January 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM