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Abbreviation | Anti-Slavery |
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Founded | 1839 |
Purpose | Anti-slavery |
Headquarters | London, SW9 United Kingdom |
Region served | International |
Director | Jasmine O'Connor |
Website | www |
Anti-Slavery International, founded as the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839,[1][2] is an international non-governmental organisation, registered charity[3] and advocacy group, based in the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest international human rights organisation, and works exclusively against slavery and related abuses.[4]
In 1909, the society merged with the Aborigines' Protection Society to form the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society,[2] whose prominent member was Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon. It became the Anti-Slavery Society in July 1947,[5] and from 1956 to 1990 it was named the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights. In 1990 it was renamed Anti-Slavery International for the Protection of Human Rights, and in 1995 relaunched as Anti-Slavery International.[6]
It owes its origins to the radical element of an older organisation also commonly referred to as the "Anti-Slavery Society", the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, which had substantially achieved abolition of slavery in the British Empire by August 1838.[1]
The new British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was created to campaign against the practice of slavery in other countries.
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