The Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced on Wednesday that British businesses will be forced to show what they are doing to stop slavery in their supply chains as part of the Government’s crackdown on people-smuggling
Organised crime is run just as effectively and efficiently as any FTSE 100 business, something that law enforcers and policymakers have yet to fully appreciate. Sophisticated modern slavery cartels have emerged that fix markets such as prostitution in different countries in conjunction with competitors, thereby regulating price and supply. Criminals are organised into divisions within their illegal business – clever and agile, they move victims across Europe using cheap travel paid for by credit cards and purchased on the “dark web” to hide their
30 July 2015, The Tablet
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On the 26th Sept Portsmouth Diocese is having a Conference on Migrant Slavery where Kevin Hyland and Fiona Cunningham will speak and we hope to look at ways we can all respond to this crisis -spaces avalaible http://www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/migrant-slavery-day.php