Evangelical Alliance Temple Address
Rt Revd Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York gave the Evangelical Alliance’s Temple address and spoke on ‘The Road to Recovery: Neighbourliness and Mercy, Community and Service’.
Read in full here.
Evangelical Alliance Don’t Be a Stranger
Evangelical Alliance launch the Don’t be a Stranger campaign, resourced by a website with personal stories, ideas for action and helpful links.
View website here.
Asylum in Britain: a question of conscience
Revd Canon Anthony Harvey, formerly Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey and active member of the Steering Committee of the Churches’ Refugee Network provides a Christian perspective on the asylum process in the UK.
Read in full here.
Updated 17/11/2011
‘People who used to move drugs around now move people around.’
Phil Taylor, Scotland and Northern Ireland Regional Director,UK Border Agency speaking at the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Conference, Belfast, 20 April 2009
‘It wasn’t alright then. It isn’t alright now. Modern slavery traps more people today than in the entire 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade.’ Blue Blindfold awareness campaign web site www.blueblindfold.co.uk/
‘According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), about 12.3 million people worldwide are in forced labour, bonded labour, forced child labour or sexual servitude at any given time. Other estimates range between 4 million and 27 million. According to US Government-sponsored research, about 800,000 people are trafficked across national boundaries each year, about 80% of whom are women and girls and “up to 50%” are children.’ House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, The Trade in Human Beings: Human Trafficking in the UK, Sixth Report of Session 2008–09 Volume I p.14 www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmhaff/23/23i.pdf
What is People Trafficking?
‘Trafficking involves transporting people away from the communities in which they live and forcing them to work against their will using violence, deception, or coercion. When children are trafficked, no violence, deception or coercion needs to be involved: simply transporting them into exploitative conditions constitutes trafficking. People are trafficked both between countries and within the borders of a state.’ Definition by Anti-Slavery, Read in full
Stories of Victims indicate the damage this crime inflicts.
Continue reading ‘Definitions relating to People Trafficking’
Our local arrangements for identifying, rescuing victims and prosecuting crimes sit within the UK framework. Continue reading ‘The UK situation and policy’
