The Human Trafficking Foundation is a London-based charity founded by the Conservative Party politician and former

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house ...

Anthony Steen Anthony David Steen CBE (born 22 July 1939) is a former British Conservative Party politician and barrister. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2010, and the Chairman of the Human Trafficking Foundation. Having represented Totne ...

. Tamara Barnett runs the NGO and Rachel Smith runs the London Project and National Network Coordinators Forum. The Foundation was the result of work done by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking. Before he left parliament in 2010, Steen was also successful in putting through a

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to establish a national

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in the UK. The organisation works with NGOs and charities in the sector combatting

human trafficking Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extr ...

around the UK. Between 2011 and 2013 it worked with ECPAT UK and Asociata High Level Group for Children (Romania) to establish Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking, a Europe-wide project to create a network of parliamentarians across the continent fighting human trafficking. In 2011 the Foundation was also involved in revealing that it was mainly women who were entrapping and forcing women into

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Human Trafficking Foundation
Charities based in London Human trafficking in the United Kingdom