The term ‘modern slavery’ encapsulates a range of exploitative acts, including human trafficking, forced labour, domestic servitude and sexual slavery. The victims vary as much as the crime.
They may be trafficked from abroad, deceived into thinking they are coming to the UK to work or coerced into travelling by threats, only to be forced into prostitution or exhausting manual labour with little to no payment or freedom to leave.
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