{"id":235620,"date":"2016-07-31T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235620"},"modified":"2016-07-31T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:52:15","slug":"theresa-may-vows-to-defeat-evil-modern-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/theresa-may-vows-to-defeat-evil-modern-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May vows to defeat ‘evil’ modern slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"
Britain will lead the fight against modern slavery, Theresa May has said, vowing to make it her mission to help rid the world of the “barbaric evil”.<\/p>\n
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister said it was “the great human rights issue of our time”.<\/p>\n
A new cabinet taskforce will tackle the “sickening and inhuman crimes… lurking in the shadows of our country”.<\/p>\n
More than \u00a333m from the aid budget will be used to fund initiatives in nations from where people are trafficked.<\/p>\n
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The most recent Home Office estimates suggest there are between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of modern slavery in the UK, with 45 million estimated victims across the world.<\/p>\n
‘Locked up, abused’<\/strong><\/p>\n Victims are said to include women forced into prostitution, “imprisoned” domestic staff and workers in fields, factories and fishing boats.<\/p>\n Mrs May said: “From nail bars and car washes to sheds and rundown caravans, people are enduring experiences that are simply horrifying in their inhumanity.<\/p>\n “Vulnerable people who have travelled long distances, believing they were heading for legitimate jobs, are finding they have been duped, forced into hard labour, and then locked up and abused.<\/p>\n “Innocent individuals are being tricked into prostitution, often by people they thought they could trust. Children are being made to pick-pocket on the streets and steal from cash machines.”<\/p>\n