Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman has received an Anti-Slavery Day Award for the best investigative newspaper article dealing with modern slavery or human trafficking. Her winning article ‘Trafficked and enslaved: the teenagers tending UK cannabis farms’ provides a shocking insight into the lives of trafficked Vietnamese teenagers working on cannabis farms in the UK.
The Anti-Slavery Day Awards, hosted by the Human Trafficking Foundation, recognise media, press, and filmmakers which have exposed issues of modern slavery, and celebrate organisations and individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the fight against modern slavery.