Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy

The 1926 Slavery Convention defines slavery as ‘the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised’. [...] Human Trafficking - the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, fraud, deception, the abuse of power, or a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitat. [...] Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, Forced Labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. [...] Reporting Slavery is often hidden and can be difficult to identify, but there are signs that, if appearing together and taken in a broader context, might mean that someone is in slavery.1 The individual appears to be in the control of someone else and reluctant to interact with others The individual does not have personal identification on them The individual appears to have few personal belonging. [...] Debt Bondage or Bonded Labour - the status or condition arising from a pledge by a debtor of his personal services or of those of a person under his control as security for a debt , if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services, are not respectively limited and defined.