Annie Kelly is an award-winning journalist and editor for The Guardian and Observer newspapers. Currently she is leading the Guardian’s new reporting project on human rights and has previously edited reporting series on modern slavery on trafficking and labour exploitation. From 2011-2018 she led the Guardian’s special human rights reporting project on modern slavery and trafficking, which has run major investigations into slavery in global supply chains, domestic and international sex trafficking, corruption in global labour recruitment, the abuse of overseas domestic workers and trafficking on the migration trail. The project has won numerous human rights and journalism awards for its investigations and multimedia stories and has led to systemic change in global food sourcing and labour rights for migrant workers.

She has also directed and produced documentaries for The Guardian. Her documentary “The Trap”, which uncovered sex trafficking from inside the criminal justice system in the United States, has been viewed over 10 million times on The Guardian’s YouTube channel.

Prior to her current role she was a foreign correspondent based in Latin America and has also reported on major human rights stories in countries including Liberia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Mexico and the Philippines.

Her investigations for The Guardian and Observer have included exposing corrective rape in South Africa, the plight of former child soldiers in Liberia, the branding of domestic sex trafficking victims in the US and child trafficking in Uganda.

She has also reported on human rights, mental health and global women and girl’s stories for Marie Claire magazine, The New Statesman, the BBC and Channel 4’s Unreported World series.

Annie also works as a filmmaker and as consultant for development agencies and NGOs.