At Least 100,000 Victims of Modern Slavery Just in UK by Judith Bergman  •  August 14, 2020 at 5:00 am       According to the report, despite the scale of the crimes, prosecutions have barely increased... "This is a systemic issue that is borne out of poor regulation, poor legislation and exploitation at every level. You have to ask yourself who actually has the power to change this? And that buck stops with government". — Adam Clarke, deputy mayor of Leicester, Sky News, July 13, 2020. The protesters of historical slavery could well be wearing clothes produced by the marginalized, victimized modern slaves who have no access to the justice and equality for which the protesters claim to be fighting. It is telling that both public and private resources, as well as endless media coverage, are being dedicated to the issue of "racist statues" and historical slavery, while the plight of living, suffering modern slaves -- an issue that needs tremendous effort to be tackled to even some degree -- barely interests anyone. At the beginning of July, the UK's National Crime Agency was asked to investigate modern slavery allegations in Leicester's clothing factories. "As many as 10,000 people could be working in slave-like conditions in textile factories" in Leicester, a report by Sky News disclosed. (Image source: Philafrenzy/Wikimedia Commons) A new British report, "It Still Happens Here: Fighting UK Slavery in the 2020s", by The Modern Slavery Policy Unit, a joint initiative led by the anti-slavery charity Justice and Care and The Centre for Social Justice, has estimated that "there could be at least 100,000 victims [of modern slavery] in the UK, with the actual number likely to be even greater". According to the report: "Many thousands of children, women and men of all nationalities and backgrounds -- including a growing number of British citizens -- continue to be trafficked and exploited for profit by ruthless criminal networks. They are tricked, taken and coerced into sexual slavery, crime, hard labour and domestic servitude. Forced addictions are increasingly used as methods of control". According to the report, despite the scale of the crimes, prosecutions have barely increased: Continue Reading Article