Improving our Response to Modern Slavery & Exploitation: Supporting Chinese women

Anyone can be exploited, or become a victim of modern slavery, no matter their age, gender or nationality. This report focuses specifically on Chinese women, due to the experiences of three NGOs, Caritas Bakhita House, Rahab and Tamar. It is hoped that the report will support wider understanding of the journey, exploitation and barriers often experienced by this demographic and improve the response by practitioners.

It explores:

• the role of fraudulent travel agencies, which often trap people into debt they can’t pay off
• complications with translation and the importance of professional interpreters
• the barriers which stop someone asking for help.

The voices and stories of the women in the case studies remain at the heart of the report and continue to shape the work of the NGOs.

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Working in collaboration

Caritas Bakhita House, Rahab and Tamar are part of the Modern Slavery & Exploitation (MSE) Group, a partnership made up of organisations from every sector in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster.

STOP THE TRAFFIK coordinates this group and shapes the response to tackling modern slavery across the three boroughs, through victim identification and support, bringing exploiters to justice and preventing modern slavery from happening.