COUNCIL OF EUROPE TRAFFICKING CONVENTION ENTERS INTO FORCE In an important move forward in the fight against human trafficking, on Wednesday 24 October Cyprus became the tenth country to ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings. With 10 ratifications it means the Convention will enter into force from 1 February 2008, and its protective measures will become legally binding. Anti-Slavery International has been campaigning for all 46 member states to ratify this crucial convention. The United Kingdom Government signed the Convention in March this year and pledged it would ratify it. It is vital the Government ratifies and implements the Convention as a matter of urgency... See latest news for the full story Take action -- call on the UK Government to ratify the Convention   MARK BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH BICENTENARY ACTION 2007 marks 200 years since Britain abolished the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Today, at least 12 million people are in slavery. Seize the abolitionist spirit: Sign the Fight for Freedom Declaration Make a donation and support our work to end slavery today! Join Anti-Slavery International   NEW WEBSITE EXPOSES TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE REALITY Recovered Histories: Reawakening the narratives of enslavement, resistance and the fight for freedom is Anti-Slavery International's newest website. Containing over 40,000 digitised pages of literature on the slave trade, it covers over 100 years of campaigning in Europe and the Americas, providing insight into the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the struggle between those seeking to maintain the trade and those fighting for its abolition.   CURRENT VACANCY: Press Officer   . .   Updated 25/10/07     Anti-Slavery International   Thomas Clarkson House   The Stableyard   Broomgrove Road   London  SW9 9TL tel: +44 (0)20 7501 8920   fax: +44 (0)20 7738 4110 email: info@antislavery.org Registered Charity 1049160       Company Limited Guarantee 3079904 Terms and conditions Privacy and usage policy

Faisal Fulad Regional and International Director for Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) Became Internationl Member in Anti-Slavery International (http://www.antislavery.org/), founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. We work at local, national and international levels to eliminate the system of slavery around the world by: Urging governments of countries with slavery to develop and implement measures to end it; Lobbying governments and intergovernmental agencies to make slavery a priority issue; Supporting research to assess the scale of slavery in order to identify measures to end it; Working with local organisations to raise public awareness of slavery; Educating the public about the realities of slavery and campaigning for its end. FULAD will focis on :     1- Stop Bonded labour:     or debt bondage – is probably the least known form of slavery today, and yet it is the most widely used method of enslaving people. A person becomes a bonded labourer when his or her labour is demanded as a means of repayment for a loan. The person is then tricked or trapped into working for very little or no pay, often for seven days a week. The value of their work is invariably greater than the original sum of money borrowed. Millions of people are held in bonded labour around the world.   2-Stop Child Labour :    Some types of work make useful, positive contributions to a child's development. Work can help children learn about responsibility and develop particular skills that will benefit them and the rest of society. Often, work is a vital source of income that helps to sustain children and their families But Child labour has serious consequences that stay with the individual and with society for far longer than the years of childhood. Young workers not only face dangerous working conditions. They face long-term physical, intellectual and emotional stress. They face an adulthood of unemployment and illiteracy.    3- Stop Trafficking :   is the fastest growing means by which people are forced into slavery. It affects every continent and most countries. In order to clarify how this trade is slavery and a violation of human rights.