Slavery in the 21st Century
Newham CSM held an open meeting which attracted people we has not met before on the issue of continuing slavery. It was addressed by Gemma Wolfes of Anti Slavery International. In this anniversary year of the ending of the transatlantic slave trade it was salutary to learn that slavery continues throughout the world and in many guises; bonded labourers and children working off the debts of their parents, domestic workers brought in from abroad who have no freedom of movement and are often subject to abuse from their employers, women tricked into the sex trade, people trafficking and historic forms of slavery where adults are ‘owned’ and children are born into servitude.
