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Modern-day slavery is growing
Forced and unpaid labour are spreading across the globe, from the garment trade to cleaning to construction — we need to stop turning a blind eye, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
NEW figures show that slavery is on the increase across the globe. These are words I simply should not be writing in the 21st century.
Walk Free, the International Organisation for Migration and the International Labour Organisation estimate in their recently released Global Slavery Index that nearly 50 million people were now enslaved.
The damning report showing that 49.6m people are trapped in slavery should bring shame to the leaders of the world who have chosen to ignore it or — worse still — condone it by their inaction.
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