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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 ...
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.
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 ...
The number of suspected victims of modern slavery referred for help is up 15 per cent year-on-year
Genuine victims of modern slavery not getting the support they need, charities warn Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
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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