Anti-trafficking
Human Trafficking is one of the top three most lucrative manifestations of organised crime - along with drug dealing and the arms trade. William Wilberforce is one of my personal political heroes. A picture of him hangs in my office. It is really shameful for our generation, however, that there are over twice as many people in slavery or bondage today as there were during the lifetime of Wilberforce when he managed to work with others to help abolish the appalling African slave trade.
Human Trafficking is a fundamental assault on basic human dignity. It affects millions of men, women and children throughout the world. More than twice as many people are in bondage in the world today as were taken in chains during the entire 350 years of the African Slave Trade. Over 100,000 of which are in Europe, 1 in 8 are in the United Kingdom, some British, many European.
Human Trafficking includes Debt Bondage, Domestic Slavery, Child Labour as well as the more well known Sex Industry and it takes place throughout the UK – often in peaceful looking suburbia. Cases of Human Trafficking have recently been identified in Worthing, Northampton, Ipswich, Dundee, Birmingham, Plymouth, Exeter, Colchester, Nottingham, Belfast, Edinburgh, Paignton and London.
More details about modern day slavery and the work of the Group at www.allpartygrouphumantrafficking.org.
