Banks globally eye UK scheme giving accounts to trafficking survivors
London, UK Thomson Reuters Foundation Lucia, a sex trafficking survivor, flashed her new debit card and ran her finger along her name embossed on the plastic. The 44-year-old Congolese nurse was trafficked to Britain last year, abandoned by her captors and is seeking asylum in the country, but she was locked out of the financial […]
Delta Air Lines, Aldi, HSBC lead way in Stop Slavery Award
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation US carrier Delta Air Lines and British retail bank HSBC UK were named as major winners of a global anti-slavery award on Thursday after training flight attendants to spot trafficking and giving bank accounts to slavery survivors. Supermarket Aldi UK – the British arm of the German discount store – and […]