UK Unveils Tough Bill to Stop Modern Slavery
The draft Bill sets out provisions to consolidate and simplify existing slavery and trafficking offences to provide clarity and focus when investigating and prosecuting traffickers, increase the maximum sentence available from 14 years to life imprisonment besides creating a new Anti-Slavery Commissioner role to galvanize law enforcement efforts to tackle modern slavery.
India has been found to be among the top 20 countries of origin for poor people who are trafficked into Britain.
The International Labour Organization estimates that the profits of traffickers worldwide are in excess of $32 billion each year. The first ever Global Slavery Index released on Thursday found that between 13,300,000 and 14,700,000 are enslaved in India.
This means India is home to nearly half of the world's entire number of 30 million slaves worldwide. India stands fourth as per proportion but right on top of the list when it comes to absolute numbers.
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