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The anti-slavery charter and the global campaign to end slavery

Slavery is about power and its unequal distribution. Anti-Slavery International has released a new charter that recognises that truth and lays out what's needed to start shifting that balance.

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Anti-Slavery International exists to end slavery, so the Anti-Slavery Charter we publish today touches on the essence of everything we do.

Slavery is a political issue: in a very fundamental way it is about power, or, more precisely, the exclusion from power of groups of people so that they can be enslaved.