This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Extra resources should be allocated to reducing all forms of modern day ‘slavery’ (like employing cheap immigrant labour, people trafficking)
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'Slavery' occurs all the time, even today but by a different name. Even in marriage and employment, 'slavery' does occur today. HMG should take seriously modern day ‘slavery’, like child slavery, people trafficking for sex/employment, abusive marriage partner or employer, bullying, humiliation in media/cyberspace, etc. I would define ‘slavery’ as most forms of racism, discrimination, exploitation of labour (economic or otherwise), bullying, blackmailing, caste/social class system, deception, abuse, physical aggression, humiliation, unjustified domination of one party over another, imposing one's will over another and forcing a person to perform acts/labour he/she does not will wish or consented to do. Slavery in the Victorian age occurs even for whites in Victorian Britain, not only slavery of blacks in America & other groups in other parts of the world.
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