Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million to sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein to settle a lawsuit filed last year in Manhattan, according to the lawyers for the victims. The settlement, which requires approval by a federal judge, would resolve a proposed class-action suit...
ATLEU have launched this new toolkit to help those working with survivors to prepare and submit an initial application to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). ...
This policy paper by the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner finds low levels of compensation granted to trafficking survivors in the UK and calls for improved access to compensation and improved data collection and analysis of claims made and awarded. ...
On 7 October, the European Court of Human Rights issued a long-awaited verdict in the case of Zoletic and Others v. Azerbaijan – 20116/12, in favour of 33 citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who were recruited in 2009 and taken to Azerbaijan where they were forced to work. The...
BSR, an US-based organization with a focus on sustainability, has recently published a report that illustrates the questions companies should ask themselves to assess whether they should provide remedy for an adverse human rights impact under the United Nations Guiding Principles (UNGPs). The paper draws upon...
On 29 March, UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dame Sarah Thornton, published a paper to urge police practitioners to prioritize the financial investigation of modern slavery and human trafficking crimes. The economic profit represents the most important motive for criminals. Financial evidence can oftentimes compensate the difficulty...
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia accepted the complaint of a victim of human trafficking assisted by ASTRA, a member of La Strada International, and ruled that her right to prohibition of human trafficking as well as the right to a trial within...
A new report by ATLEU has shown the lengthy waiting times for survivors of slavery to receive compensation in the UK. This new report reveals that nearly half of the survey respondents had the experience of survivors waiting two to three years to receive compensation....
In June, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) published the first series of reports in the third monitoring round on Austria, the Slovak Republic and Cyprus. The reports provide an analysis of access to justice and...
On June 17th, the European Council committed to scale-up financial investigations to fight serious and organised crime and called upon the Commission to consider measures related to strengthening the legal framework, improve management of assets recovery and interconnect national centralised bank account registries, which would...