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26 Fév 2007

Auteur:
Joseph Rowntree Foundation [UK]

Comprehensive new JRF [Joseph Rowntree Foundation] report shows that slavery exists in the UK today

As the UK marks the 200th anniversary of legislation for the abolition of the slave trade, a new report shows how modern forms of slavery occur in the UK...UK enforcement agencies estimate there may be as many as 10,000 gangmasters operating across the various industrial sectors. Many operate legally but some do not...[People]...are...trafficked by agents into forced labour in such areas as agriculture, construction, cleaning and domestic work, food processing and packaging, care/nursing, hospitality and the restaurant trade, as well as into sexual exploitation. Some UK-based companies, knowingly or not, rely on people working in slavery to produce goods that they sell: complex sub-contracting and supply chains, managed by agents elsewhere, often obscure this involvement.