21st century Anti-Slavery Campaigns

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LONDON — Slavery is thriving in the United Kingdom, as authorities try to battle a growing problem.
Britain’s National Crime Agency said cases of forced labor affect "every large town and city in the country.”
A government estimate of 13,000 victims in the U.K. is the "tip of the iceberg," according to Britain’s anti-slavery commissioner Kevin Hyland. He called for tighter regulation of nail salons in the country — some of which are sites of forced labor.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...om/1002993001/

The High Court in Glasgow heard Robert McPhee and John Miller held three men in "slavery or servitude" at a site in Shotts, North Lanarkshire.
Prosecutors said the men were kept in squalid conditions and forced to carry out work for little or no pay.
Mr McPhee and Mr Miller, along with two other men, James and Steven McPhee, have denied all of the charges against them.
Between them, the four men face a total of 30 charges including violence, intimidation, abduction and detaining victims against their will.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-...-west-42610004

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Inner city children being forced to sell drugs in the countryside has fueled a tripling in the number of modern slavery victims in Britain, the National Crime Agency has said.

For the first time UK nationals have made up the majority of the cases reported to the scheme set up to identify children and adults who are at the mercy of slave drivers and traffickers.

This was partly down to fears of children being exploited in a drug distribution model known as "county lines", where city gangs branch out into county or coastal towns to sell heroin and crack cocaine.

In 2017 there were 5,145 potential victims referred, up 35 per cent from 2016 and the number has almost tripled since 2013, when there were 1,745 cases.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...odern-slavery/