Anti-Slavery Society

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Recent News

Anniversary of Birth of Benjamin Lundy
January 9, 2023
January 4, 1789: Birth of Benjamin Lundy (US abolitionist)
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Anniversary of abolition of slave trade
January 9, 2023
January 1, 1808: The Slave Trade Act 1807 comes into force, abolishing the slave trade throughout the Broitish Empire.
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Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation
January 8, 2023
January 1, 1863: President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation(painting of a Union soldier reading Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation to a slave family)
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Campaigns

Buying a carpet

The Society is promoting ‘Rugmark’ carpets — hand-woven carpets, which carry a guarantee against the use of child labor — in preference to carpets made by children (some as young as four years of age). ‘Rugmark’.  In August 1994, the Rugmark Foundation was registered in India by a consortium comprising the following business associations and […]

Read More June 14, 2016

Child labor in Fashion

Designers pledge for child labour-free fashion world The Fashion Design Council of India has collaborated with Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation to launch #Notmadebychildren campaign. The campaign aims to stop child labour in India’s fashion and textile industries. “There are so many people who follow fashion,” Kailash said. “So, I feel this is one of the […]

Read More June 18, 2019

Child trafficking in sport

According to the Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, sports are not immune to the sale and exploitation of children.  There have been cases of large-scale sexual abuse of children within gymnastics, football and other sports. Moreover, there are several practices that can amount to the sale of children specifically in […]

Read More June 19, 2019

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Raids/Rescues

Boys rescued in raids in India

Four boys — one as young as 12 — were rescued by raids were conducted in commercial establishments in the State of Tamil Nadu in India. The 12-year-old worked in a bakery, a 15-year-old boy in a gas station, and the two 16-year olds in motor mechanic shop.  The raids occurred on September 22, 24, […]

Read More October 5, 2020

Children rescued from construction side in India

For the second time in a month, boys have been rescued from a construction site in Trichy.  Eight boys aged 15-16 were rescued.  Six were from Jharkhand, one from West Bengal and another from Tamil Nadu.  The rescue involved our program partners in India, the Bachpan Bachao Andolan.  The boys were forced to work in unsafe […]

Read More March 14, 2021