Modern Slavery Definition Home Office. The Home Office has today Thursday 11 March launched a modern slavery statement registry online to provide a platform for organisations to share the positive steps they have taken to tackle and. See What is modern slavery.
It does not include practices like substandard working conditions or underpayment of workers though these practices are also harmful and may be present in some situations of modern slavery. A Home Office spokesperson said. Exploitation takes a number of forms including sexual exploitation forced manual labour and domestic servitude and victims come from all walks of life.
106-386 as amended TVPA and the Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized.
The number of live police operations has increased since the Act became law from 188 police operations in December 2016 to over 1479 at present. Modern slavery is all around us but often just out of sight. In addition to traditional slavery modern forms of slavery include serfdom forced labour debt bondage the worst forms of child labour the sale of children forced and early marriage the sale of wives and inherited widows trafficking in persons for exploitation and sexual slavery. The impact can be devastating for the victims.