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"When the Modern Slavery Act was passed in 2015, the UK was said to be world leading. That is no longer the case," said the report, published in October. It urged the government to amend the ...
Research published in 2015, following the announcement of the government's 'Modern Slavery Strategy', [127] had estimated the number of potential victims of modern slavery in the UK to be around 10–13 thousand, [125] of whom roughly 7–10 thousand were currently unrecorded (given that 2,744 confirmed cases were known to the National Crime ...
Employment law, human trafficking, modern slavery, diplomatic immunity, Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations: A Saudi Arabian diplomat who alleged subjected a domestic staff member to conditions that would constitute modern slavery cannot rely on diplomatic immunity to prevent claims for compensation.
Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million [ 1 ] to 49.6 million, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition ...
The number of suspected victims of modern slavery referred for help is up 15 per cent year-on-year
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A 73-year-old ethnic Indian Singaporean man, Aravindan Balakrishnan, and a 67-year-old Tanzanian [3] woman, his wife, Chanda Pattni, had been investigated for slavery and domestic servitude. [4] [5] The case centred around the Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought commune which was led by Balakrishnan. In the early 1980s ...
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