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human trafficking Articles

We cannot let down those risking their lives

I was moved to make this my first early day motion because the current situation for people making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea is a frightening indictment of our times. During the last four years the numbers of migrants and refugees making this...

Fighting human trafficking in modern-day Scotland

There are more people in slavery today than at any point in history according to the United Nations. And they are in our communities. In London, Glasgow, Cardiff, Dundee, trafficked people, bought, sold, coerced against their will are working in prostitution, domestic...

Where is a Wilberforce to outlaw modern slavery?

Today Downing Street will open its doors to the successors of William Wilberforce – the campaigners against the new slavery which in numbers at least is far greater and far more profitable than the trade parliament outlawed in 1807. David Cameron will host a reception...

Protect the ILO

On International Workers’ Day, Harriet Harman MP, shadow secretary of state for international development writes on why the government is wrong to cut funding to the International Labour Organisation