Each year a ‘walk for freedom’ is organised around the world to draw attention to human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
Romy Arroyo Fernandez/PAThe Covid-19 pandemic and environmental change have combined to “increase exponentially” the scourge of human trafficking, according to the Archbishop of Westminster.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Santa Marta Group, said the spread of poverty and instability is being used by international criminal networks pushing forward modern slavery.“Levels of basic hunger are widespread; people living without a basic income; millions left jobless: all lead to a profound vulnerability open to the most terrible exploitation,” he said, […]
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