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  • Breaking News: What is the role of awareness-raising in tackling modern slavery?
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Sunday, January 24

Source: The Independent

Are a Third of UK Businesses Failing to Fight Modern Slavery?

A recent study shows that perhaps a third or more of UK businesses are failing to combat modern slavery, reported the Independent. [...]

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Kentucky Child Marriage Ban Delayed by Conservative Group

The US state of Kentucky is embroiled in a debate over banning child marriage as a planned vote on a bill that would outlaw the [...]

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Chinese Prisons Making the World’s Xmas Decor

Inmates in Chinese prisons are reportedly being forced to make Christmas lights and decorations that are exported around the world. One [...]

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Forced Marriage Convictions Plummet, but Why?

More and more victims of forced marriage are coming forward in the UK. You’d expect more people being charged by the authorities, [...]

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U.K. trafficking victims on “cliff edge” as government cuts support during pandemic

Thousands of modern slavery victims in the United Kingdom have reportedly had their government support cut off during lockdown, leaving [...]

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Child Refugees Exposed to Appalling Abuses

According to the Independent, a recent study has indicated that 3/4 of refugee children trying to get to Europe along the central [...]

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UK Announces £5.5m Boost to End Modern Slavery in Commonwealth

The UK is stepping up to combat modern slavery across the Commonwealth as it announced a £5.5 million boost in aid to fight the crime [...]

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After Slashing Support, UK to Repay Victims

The Home Office has announced a new scheme to repay thousands of victims of modern slavery after the High Court ruled that cuts to [...]

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Deport or Support? What Will Home Secretary Priti Patel Do?

The UK has its new Home Office Secretary, Priti Patel. And many are closely eyeing how she plans to help survivors of modern slavery. [...]

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Victims of trafficking with children win case for more support in the U.K.

In a case that exposes the reluctance of the U.K. interior ministry to provide adequate support to modern slavery survivors, victims of [...]

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Recognize and Stamp Out Modern Slavery in the UK

So many people believe that modern day slavery only happens elsewhere, and not so much in Britain. They tell themselves that it is [...]

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MPs Lobby for UK to Criminalize Buying Sex as Path to Curb Trafficking

MPs are warning that vulnerable women, largely from Eastern Europe, are being trafficked to the UK for sexual exploitation in [...]

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Aid Cuts for Child ‘County Lines’ Victims

Despite a surge in child victims, the UK Home Office announced that it will scale back support for children who were forced to ferry [...]

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The Suspicious Surge in Voluntary Returns of Trafficking Victims

New figures reveal that there has been a surge in the number of potential foreign trafficking victims in the UK who returned to their [...]

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Campaigners raise alarm in Turkey over marriage of Syrian girls

Syrian girls in Turkey are being married off by their families at increasing rates to cope with the economic pressures of the pandemic, [...]

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Rooney Family Gets 79 Years in Landmark Slavery Case

According to an article in The Independent, members of the Rooney family, who were leaders of a slavery ring in Lincolnshire, are [...]

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UK to Forcibly Remove Trafficking Victim Who Fears He Will be Killed

The UK government is coming under fire for its “outrageous” treatment of trafficking victims who are being deported in [...]

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The Blurry Indicators of Sex Trafficking

With every major sporting event in the United States comes the speculation that the Super Bowl, the Final Four, and the like are [...]

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Thirty potential modern slavery victims referred to Home Office each day

There’s been a surge in the number of potential victims of modern slavery in the UK. In just three months, the Home Office has [...]

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Lift The Ban: U.K. government could raise £98 million per year

Lift The Ban’s new report released this week calls for the U.K. to use common sense and grant all people seeking asylum the right to [...]

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Theresa May: Awareness, Support for Victims Key to Ending Modern Slavery

Theresa May said today, “Modern slavery will only be defeated by making more people aware of the horrific abuses going on in [...]

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UK Home Office Broke the Law in Failing to Protect Trafficked Vietnamese Boy

In a landmark ruling, the Court of Appeal has ruled that the UK Home Office broke the law in failing to protect a Vietnamese child [...]

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Chinese Woman Wrongfully Detained in Yarl’s Wood

The UK is admitting that it wrongfully detained a Chinese woman who was a victim of human trafficking, locking her up for six months in [...]

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UK government’s treatment of trafficking victims ruled unlawful

The High Court of Justice in London has ruled that the British government has been acting unlawfully in its treatment of victims of [...]

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Displaced women and girls face surge in forced marriage & trafficking amid pandemic

A new report has warned that displaced women and girls are facing surging rates of gender-based violence during the ongoing coronavirus [...]

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Some Modern Slavery Victims Find Joy in Belly Dancing

Belly dancing?  That may strike some readers as a surprise. But in this article in the Independent today, we learn that trauma causes [...]

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Second-Ever Forced Marriage Conviction Sends Parents to Jail for 8 Years

A couple from Leeds has been jailed for 8 years for forcing their teenage daughter to marry. They tricked their daughter into [...]

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Epidemic of Girls Sexually Abused by County Lines Gangs

Stacey (not her real name) was 13 when she was “passed around like a minion” by male members of a gang. As one of the [...]

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UK pushing people back into exploitation as they wait years for decision

New data obtained by the Scottish Refugee Council shows the number of potential victims of slavery in the UK waiting more than two [...]

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Support for U.K. trafficking victims allegedly cut during pandemic

Lawyers have warned that hundreds of trafficking survivors in the United Kingdom have found themselves with reduced or terminated [...]

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World Cup 2022: Qatar’s Workers Treated Like Slaves

Imagine that you are living in rural Bangladesh when an acquaintance in your town approaches you with a job offer to work abroad in a [...]

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UK Nets 185 Convictions for Modern Slavery

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says during the 2017-2018 financial year it convicted 185 people for modern slavery out of 239 [...]

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MPs Speak Out Against Throwaway Fashion

A cross party group of MPs in Britain are calling for fashion companies to be charged one penny per garment to help fund clothing [...]

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Amnesty for undocumented migrants scrapped

In a move that has sparked concerns amongst anti-slavery campaigners in the UK, the government this month scrapped a proposal to give [...]

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UK Home Office U-turns after slashing support for trafficking survivors

The UK Home Office has reversed its decision to unlawfully slash financial support for survivors of modern slavery during the pandemic [...]

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Taking a Local Approach to Fight Slavery

Recent estimates have put the number of victims of slavery in the UK around 10,000-13,000. While victims may be trafficked to the UK [...]

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The Reason Why Thousands of British Girls Will Not Return to School

The number of girls in Britain being forced into marriage abroad has soared by a third in recent years according to a leading charity. [...]

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Should Teachers Be Liable for Reporting Forced Marriages?

The National Education Union, Britain’s largest teachers’ union, is condemning a proposal that would make teachers [...]

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Law proposed to lift ban on asylum seekers’ right to work

In a promising step forward for our Lift the Ban campaign, a bill to grant people seeking asylum in the UK the right to work was [...]

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Further warnings of modern slavery risk in UK post-pandemic economic slump

The leader of a prominent UK anti-slavery charity had delivered the latest warning that human traffick