In addition, he and his co-defendants were served with slavery and trafficking prevention orders under the terms of the recently introduced law on modern slavery, which would place severe ...

Now, we have a historic opportunity to fight modern slavery, both in the European Union ... This new law is product-based, not company-based, meaning that all companies will have to comply with ...

Eugenie and Jack welcomed their son August Philip Hawke Brooksbank back in 2021, and his name has a special meaning. Eugenie ...

According to anti-slavery charity Unseen, the number of calls to the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline in 2023 increased by more than 19%, up from 9,779 in 2022 to 11,700 last year.

Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867. However ...

Potential victims of modern slavery in the UK who come to the attention ... A quarter of those referred to the NRM were of UK ...

It is claimed that no Pope condemned slavery until then. According to one modern theologian: "...one can search in vain through the interventions of the Holy See - those of Pius V, Urban VIII and ...

Objectives: Fight modern slavery in the UK, protect victims and punish perpetrators ... but that intention also comes with struggles. Firstly, how do we define human rights? How do we establish human ...

The following piece was first published on the UK Constitutional Law Blog on 25 April 2024 and is reproduced here with their ...

Recent state and federal funding initiatives to combat rising rates of domestic violence have been welcomed, but are only the ...

Its latest Global Slavery Index estimated that 50 million people were living in modern slavery – either in forced labour or forced marriage – on any given day in 2021. Nicola Forrest ...