Detectives have charged 31 people with offences including rape and trafficking after an investigation into sexual offences against children in the Huddersfield area. West Yorkshire Police said the five alleged
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Dr Alinka Gearon from the University of Bath has secured funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to run a seminar showcasing her research on child trafficking services. Dr
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Modern slavery prosecutions have increased by more than a quarter as authorities flag up record numbers of cases for possible criminal charges, new figures show. The Crown Prosecution Service received
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Two men have been charged over alleged human trafficking offences in Moray. The 45-year-old and 20-year-old are understood to have allegedly forced people to work at a nail bar in
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A London-based nurse who used voodoo threats to traffick vulnerable women from Nigeria to Germany to work as prostitutes has been jailed for 14 years. Josephine Iyamu exposed her five
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A London-based nurse has been found guilty of trafficking five Nigerian women to Germany to work as prostitutes – after forcing them to undergo humiliating voodoo rituals. Josephine Iyamu (pictured)
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A new workbook to help professionals support children who have been trafficked or smuggled across borders has been published by the NSPCC. The free resource, which can be downloaded online,
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Vulnerable women are being sexually exploited on an industrial scale in so-called “pop-up brothels” run by trafficking gangs, a new report has warned. The brothels, often set up in residential
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Britain’s first anti-slavery commissioner has taken a swipe at the Home Office as it emerged he is to stand down. Kevin Hyland was appointed by then-home secretary Theresa May in
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Vulnerable women are so afraid of being deported they are not reporting violent and sexual abuse to police or seeking protection, a new report warns. The Government’s hostile environment policy,
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