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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 ...
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (c. 30) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is designed to combat modern slavery in the UK and consolidates previous offences relating to trafficking and slavery. The act extends essentially to England and Wales, but some provisions (for example, relating to modern slavery statements and cross ...
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 ...
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 ...
Modern slavery victims say the referral system is failing to protect them from being forced back into exploitation Modern slavery victim ‘worked 105 hours a week for £3.80 per hour’ while ...
The number of suspected victims of modern slavery referred for help is up 15 per cent year-on-year
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 ...
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