Sharon supports the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Trafficking of Women and Children. Human Trafficking is one of the top three most lucrative manifestations of organised crime – alone with drug dealing and the arms trade.

Human Trafficking is a fundamental assault on basic human dignity. It affects millions of men, women and children throughout the world. More than twice as many people are in bondage in the world today as were taken in chains during the entire 350 years of the African Slave Trade. Of the total number worldwide, 100,000 of are in Europe, of which 1 in 8 are in the United Kingdom; some British, many European.

Human Trafficking includes Debt Bondage, Domestic Slavery, Child Labour as well as the more well known Sex Industry and it takes place throughout the UK – often in peaceful looking suburbia. Cases of Human Trafficking have recently been identified in Worthing, Northampton, Ipswich, Dundee, Birmingham, Plymouth, Exeter, Colchester, Nottingham, Belfast, Edinburgh, Paignton and London.

More details about modern day slavery and the work of the Group can be found at www.allpartygrouphumantrafficking.org

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