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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 ...
A report by a House of Lords committee, published in October, said there were an estimated 130,000 victims of modern slavery in Britain. "When the Modern Slavery Act was passed in 2015, the UK was ...
Modern slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry with just the forced labor aspect generating US $150 billion each year. [126] The Global Slavery Index (2018) estimated that roughly 40.3 million individuals are currently caught in modern slavery, with 71% of those being female, and 1 in 4 being children.
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 ...
Juliet Rose Sargeant (born September 1965) [1] is a British garden designer.In 2016, her anti-slavery The Modern Slavery Garden was the first show garden by a female black gardener to be exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show where it won an RHS gold medal and was voted the winner in the BBC’s People’s Choice Award.
Doing Money is a British television crime drama, written by Gwyneth Hughes and directed by Lynsey Miller, that was first broadcast on BBC Two on 5 November 2018. Focusing on the subject of modern slavery in the sex trade, the film, starring Anca Dumitra and Allen Leech, [1] is based upon the novel Slave by Jason Johnson, published on 3 May 2018.
Kevin Hyland, OBE (born 1963) was the United Kingdom’s first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, [1] leading efforts to tackle slavery and human trafficking. He left the post in May 2018 [ 2 ] and was succeeded by Dame Sara Thornton .
African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled ...