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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Church investors are using capital markets to demand more than compliance. CCLA's first global #modernslavery benchmark assessed 111 companies on their efforts to find, fix, and prevent forced labour. Only 5 scored strongly. religionmediacentre.org.uk/news/how-chu...
How church investors are using a global benchmark to fight modern slavery - Religion Media Centre
By Ruth Peacock Modern slavery is rising worldwide. An estimated 50 million people are trapped in slavery, 28 million of them in forced labour. Women and children are disproportionately affected. Last...
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February 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Church investors are using capital markets to demand more than compliance. CCLA's first global #modernslavery benchmark assessed 111 companies on their efforts to find, fix, and prevent forced labour. Only 5 scored strongly. religionmediacentre.org.uk/news/how-chu...
I’m not holding my breath. It’s been a tragic comedy to date. #Bristol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Bristol Airport links could include trams, light rail or buses
Proposals for a mass transit system to serve Bristol Airport have been unveiled.
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February 12, 2026 at 7:32 AM
I’m not holding my breath. It’s been a tragic comedy to date. #Bristol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Grateful for the support from the CIPS Foundation allowing us to use data more effectively to tackle #modernslavery.
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Unseen is awarded new funding from the CIPS foundation | CIPS
The first phase of Unseen’s collaboration with the CIPS Foundation is now transitioning[EW1.1], and phase two begins with a new focus on developing unique insights from Unseen’s Helpline and Business ...
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February 11, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Grateful for the support from the CIPS Foundation allowing us to use data more effectively to tackle #modernslavery.
www.cips.org/about-us/new...
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Forced labour isn’t just a moral failure. It’s a market distortion.
International Labour Organisation evidence shows import bans work when they change incentives. But bans alone are blunt. www.ilo.org/publications...
International Labour Organisation evidence shows import bans work when they change incentives. But bans alone are blunt. www.ilo.org/publications...
The potential of import bans to address forced labour
This research brief examines the growing use of forced labour import bans as a policy tool to address labour rights abuses in the global economy. It provides an evidence-based overview of how such ban...
www.ilo.org
February 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Forced labour isn’t just a moral failure. It’s a market distortion.
International Labour Organisation evidence shows import bans work when they change incentives. But bans alone are blunt. www.ilo.org/publications...
International Labour Organisation evidence shows import bans work when they change incentives. But bans alone are blunt. www.ilo.org/publications...
ACT’s @actnewzealand.bsky.social critique of NZ’s Modern Slavery Bill confuses criminal law with system design. The bill isn’t duplicating existing offences—it’s addressing the structural opacity that lets exploitation hide in complex supply chains. www.act.org.nz/news/live-ho...
ACT New Zealand
We believe it is inherent in the nature of human beings as individuals that they are the owners of their own lives and must be free to act according to their own judgments so long as they accept and r...
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February 4, 2026 at 11:20 AM
ACT’s @actnewzealand.bsky.social critique of NZ’s Modern Slavery Bill confuses criminal law with system design. The bill isn’t duplicating existing offences—it’s addressing the structural opacity that lets exploitation hide in complex supply chains. www.act.org.nz/news/live-ho...
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Explore what conversations with workers revealed about labour practices on construction sites, drawing on insights from Unseen’s 2025 site visits to highlight key issues affecting workers: bit.ly/4btk21j
Insights from conversations with workers during 2025 construction site visits - Unseen
New 2025 insights from construction site visits into modern slavery risks and worker wellbeing across supply chains.
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February 3, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Explore what conversations with workers revealed about labour practices on construction sites, drawing on insights from Unseen’s 2025 site visits to highlight key issues affecting workers: bit.ly/4btk21j
What’s really shocking is that Cllr Donna Higgins, cabinet member for families and communities at West Suffolk Council is shocked #modernslavery occurs in Bury St Edmonds. There are nearly 3x the number of victims in the UK as the total population of Bury St Edmunds uk.news.yahoo.com/town-leaders...
Town leaders 'shocked' by modern slavery reports
Leaders have spoken of concern after a man and a woman were arrested in Brentgovel Street in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
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February 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
What’s really shocking is that Cllr Donna Higgins, cabinet member for families and communities at West Suffolk Council is shocked #modernslavery occurs in Bury St Edmonds. There are nearly 3x the number of victims in the UK as the total population of Bury St Edmunds uk.news.yahoo.com/town-leaders...
Illegal working, exploitation & organised criminality are real & they damage workers, communities & honest businesses. But turning that into an ethnic dog whistle is worse than wrong; it actively shields the criminals by avoiding enforcement & labour market reform www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Farage attack on high street Turkish barber shops is dog-whistle racism, minister says
Miatta Fahnbulleh accuses Reform leader of ‘politics of grievance’ while having no plan to fix UK high streets
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January 30, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Illegal working, exploitation & organised criminality are real & they damage workers, communities & honest businesses. But turning that into an ethnic dog whistle is worse than wrong; it actively shields the criminals by avoiding enforcement & labour market reform www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Today in Aotearoa politics National and Labour MPs put principle above partisanship to fast-track #modernslavery legislation, using a new parliamentary rule to push it into the House after ACT wouldn’t back it.
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Watch: National and Labour MPs team up to get slavery bill heard after ACT objects
A new process to skip the 'biscuit tin' lottery is being used for the first time - because ACT refused to support a government bill.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Today in Aotearoa politics National and Labour MPs put principle above partisanship to fast-track #modernslavery legislation, using a new parliamentary rule to push it into the House after ACT wouldn’t back it.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Justice, at last, for a survivor trafficked and exploited by a diplomat in London. The High Court ordering the UAE to pay £260k matters because it exposes a hard truth: diplomatic privilege has too often operated as an exploitation licence. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan...
UAE ordered to pay £260,000 to trafficking victim exploited by diplomat in London
High court ruling marks first time a foreign state has been held liable for domestic servitude by its envoy on UK soil
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January 22, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Justice, at last, for a survivor trafficked and exploited by a diplomat in London. The High Court ordering the UAE to pay £260k matters because it exposes a hard truth: diplomatic privilege has too often operated as an exploitation licence. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan...
Forced labour doesn’t thrive because we lack information. It thrives because insight is fragmented.
This WEF piece makes the case for collective intelligence: shared data, shared accountability, and earlier action.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
This WEF piece makes the case for collective intelligence: shared data, shared accountability, and earlier action.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
How collective intelligence can help prevent forced labour
The Global Data Partnership Against Forced Labour was designed to pull together a set of reinforcing levers that make collective impact possible.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Forced labour doesn’t thrive because we lack information. It thrives because insight is fragmented.
This WEF piece makes the case for collective intelligence: shared data, shared accountability, and earlier action.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
This WEF piece makes the case for collective intelligence: shared data, shared accountability, and earlier action.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
Reposted by Andrew Wallis OBE
Through funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, Unseen is engaging 15 hard to reach communities across the UK at heightened risk of #modernslavery.
Learn more about this project by reading our latest article. bit.ly/4pGXCwQ
#EndExploitation #NationalLottery #Unseen
Learn more about this project by reading our latest article. bit.ly/4pGXCwQ
#EndExploitation #NationalLottery #Unseen
January 19, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Through funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, Unseen is engaging 15 hard to reach communities across the UK at heightened risk of #modernslavery.
Learn more about this project by reading our latest article. bit.ly/4pGXCwQ
#EndExploitation #NationalLottery #Unseen
Learn more about this project by reading our latest article. bit.ly/4pGXCwQ
#EndExploitation #NationalLottery #Unseen
Human trafficking rarely looks like chains. This BBC Africa Eye investigation from Sierra Leone shows how trust, poverty and false opportunity are quietly weaponised to exploit young people.
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How West African traffickers are trading on QNET's name - one man's search for his lost children
BBC Africa Eye joins an anti-trafficking police unit in Sierra Leone helping a man look for his missing children.
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January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Human trafficking rarely looks like chains. This BBC Africa Eye investigation from Sierra Leone shows how trust, poverty and false opportunity are quietly weaponised to exploit young people.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dont forget that Forced Labour regulations come into effect in the EU on 14 Dec 2027. This will impact UK businesses and create an unlabelled playing field.
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Working Group on Forced Labour | Subject files | Home | IMCO | Committees | European Parliament
Detailed information on a specific subject being dealt with by IMCO. Links to background documents, details of rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and deadlines.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Dont forget that Forced Labour regulations come into effect in the EU on 14 Dec 2027. This will impact UK businesses and create an unlabelled playing field.
www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
Doubting survivors and tightening evidence does not strengthen protections for people trapped in modern slavery. It weakens them. Data shows many refusals are overturned on review. Our laws should amplify justice not silence the vulnerable. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
UK immigration law has helped modern slavery thrive, says damning…
New findings point to a ‘growing culture of disbelief’ within government towards victims of trafficking
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Doubting survivors and tightening evidence does not strengthen protections for people trapped in modern slavery. It weakens them. Data shows many refusals are overturned on review. Our laws should amplify justice not silence the vulnerable. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Pan Intercultural Arts is opening a new creative arts centre in Vauxhall to support young people, refugees, and survivors of #modernslavery. The centre will provide a safe space for participants to find their voice and explore their potential through the arts. london-post.co.uk/new-cultural...
New cultural lifeline for refugees, survivors of modern slavery and underserved young Londoners opens in the heart of the city. - London Post
Renowned London based charity, Pan Intercultural Arts, is expanding its valuable work by launching a new creative arts centre in Vauxhall. It will offer a safe and vibrant space for young people, refu...
london-post.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Pan Intercultural Arts is opening a new creative arts centre in Vauxhall to support young people, refugees, and survivors of #modernslavery. The centre will provide a safe space for participants to find their voice and explore their potential through the arts. london-post.co.uk/new-cultural...
The online scam industry in Southeast Asia is built on #huamntrafficking and coercion, not just clever code. These are exploitation economies hiding behind digital infrastructure.
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Why Southeast Asia’s online scam industry is so hard to shut down
Despite high-profile arrests, dismantling the industry is tough, but activists say arrests are crucial to stopping these globally emerging operations.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The online scam industry in Southeast Asia is built on #huamntrafficking and coercion, not just clever code. These are exploitation economies hiding behind digital infrastructure.
www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
One call to the UK’s Modern Slavery Helpline run by @unseenuk.bsky.social resulted in this
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#modernslavery #justice
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#modernslavery #justice
Paedophile who ran prostitution racket from luxury apartment is jailed
A Cardiff man who ran a prostitution operation involving young men from his luxury city centre apartment and earned tens of thousands of pounds has been jailed. Dafydd Evans, of the Hayes Apartments i...
nation.cymru
January 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
One call to the UK’s Modern Slavery Helpline run by @unseenuk.bsky.social resulted in this
nation.cymru/news/paedoph...
#modernslavery #justice
nation.cymru/news/paedoph...
#modernslavery #justice
‘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.
uk.news.yahoo.com
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
@unseenuk.bsky.social
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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
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Well, well, well. Backs up what the sector has been saying for years.
@unseenuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#modernslavery
@unseenuk.bsky.social
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#modernslavery