Modern slavery can take many forms including the trafficking of people, forced labour, servitude and slavery. Recent statistics show that 47% of all potential victims who cite the UK as the location of exploitation, were trafficked into forced labour. Traffickers and illegal/unlicensed gangmasters target a range of industries including those involved in the agricultural sector.
How Your Industry Is Affected
As of 2014,13% of the 464,000 people employed on agricultural holdings being seasonal or casual workers, farms could find themselves targeted by unscrupulous gangmasters who may be offering a ready supply of labour at knocked down rates. In 2016, 8% of potential forced labour victims referred to services came from the agriculture and food sector (2% to agriculture and 6% to food processing) While the numbers coming to light are small (68 victims in 2016), slavery’s hidden nature means actual numbers are likely to be much higher.
How many people are trapped in forced labour? 27.6 million people are in situations of forced labour. That’s 3.5 people for every thousand in the world. 15% of adults in forced labour are migrant workers despite accounting for only around 5% o...Read More
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 and is accurate as of July 11, 2018. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may be revealed to the National Hotline over time. Conseq...Read More
The European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) has updated both its map and its comparative legal analysis of the different mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence (mHRDD) laws and proposals in Europe. The map provides an overview of the differ...Read More
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018 and is accurate as of July 25, 2019. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may revealed to the National Hotline over time. Consequen...Read More
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