The illegal migration bill is a backwards step in efforts to tackle modern slavery
For many months, the government has conflated tackling modern slavery with issues of people-smuggling and immigration. Some of…
Sarah Champion
We must do more on child mental health, particularly for sexual abuse survivors
Every time I speak to children in schools, I’m taken aback by their focus on mental health support…
The government’s reluctance to fund disease eradication puts us all at risk
The Global Fund is a worldwide campaign to defeat HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. I am proud that,…
The UK government: bastion of freedom – but wants to clamps down on protest?
Hongkongers in the UK and their allies are raising the alarm about provisions in the government’s policing bill…
Never again, or again and again? We need a national strategy on genocide
It pains me to say it, but – whatever speeches we might give this year to mark Holocaust…
We need an atrocity prevention strategy as conflict looms over the Balkans
26 years ago today, after talks at an airbase in the middle of America, the last European war…
Relationship and sex education is key to preventing sex abuse between children
It’s a sad reality that peer-on-peer sex abuse is on the increase amongst children. New figures published by…
Survivors’ voices must be at the centre of work to end sexual violence in conflict
Today is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. To honour it, I…
Sexual abuse is still going unchecked in the aid sector. We need bold solutions
The aid sector was rocked in 2018 when revelations surfaced that humanitarian aid workers had been paying local…
Online sexual exploitation of children needs our urgent attention
This summer, Philippines police rescued a three-month-old baby in an operation to free children from online sexual exploitation.…
