Anti-Slavery Day Awards 2024: Media Shortlist
MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS SHORTLIST
The shortlist for best news piece dealing with modern slavery comprises of:
Evening Standard (Miriam Burrell), Human traffickers will ‘thrive’ while victims ‘invisible’ under Illegal Migration Bill, Rishi Sunak warned
Independent (Lizzie Dearden), Hundreds of modern slavery cases on hold after Home Office admits ‘unlawful’ guidance
Sky (Jennifer Scott), Theresa May slams Illegal Migration Bill for allowing 'more slave drivers to make money out of human misery'
BBC (Richard Stead), Manchester trafficked woman's fight to overturn conviction
The shortlist for best written broadcast piece dealing with modern slavery comprises of:
ITV News (Lucy Watson), Inside the scamming networks kidnapping and enslaving victims in east Asia
Illustro Consultancy (Tony Dunkerley) Let's talk modern slavery podcast
Renegade Stories (Shahida Tulaganova), Ukraine's Stolen Children
Channel 4 News (Simon Israel with Sue Clayton, Tassia Kobylinska and Sophie Larkin-Tannett), The domestic slaves rescued from London's richest streets
The shortlist for best investigative news article dealing with modern slavery comprises of:
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Emiliano Mellino and Matthew Chapman), ‘All that is missing is a whip’: Home Office ignored migrant worker abuses on farms
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Vicky Gayle , Emiliano Mellino , Hajar Meddah , Charles Boutaud), Visa system forces care workers to stay silent on rape and abuse
The Guardian (Francisco Garcia), From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?
The shortlist for best written opinion piece dealing with modern slavery comprises of:
LabourList (Jess Phillips), Labour should commit to ending modern slavery for good
The Conversation (Marija Jovanovic), We don’t know how many victims of modern slavery are in prison – why that’s a problem
The Guardian (Gordon Brown), Business is booming for human traffickers because they know they’ll get away with it
The Big Issue (Maya Esslemont), We took the Home Office to task for lying on modern slavery. We still don’t have answers