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Anti-Slavery Day - Thursday 18th October 2012

Categories: Articles:Human Rights | Published: 16/10/2012 | Views: 1049
Established in 2010 Anti-Slavery Day provides a focal point for raising awareness about the many people in the UK and around the world who continue to be trapped in modern slavery, and to promote the need for many individuals and organisations across society to play a part in ending it. Slavery exists today despite the fact that it is banned in most of the countries where it is practised. Although this exploitation of millions of people, including children, is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. People are sold like objects, forced to work for little or no pay and are at the mercy of their 'employers'.

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