Virendra Sharma MP

Human Trafficking is a fundamental assault on basic human dignity

Human Trafficking is a fundamental assault on basic human dignity

Virendra Sharma MP is actively involved in addressing the serious issue of Human Trafficking. He is working together with the Southall Black Sisters and as a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficking of Women and Children to combat Human Trafficking since it is one of the top three most lucrative manifestations of organized crime – along with drug dealing and the arms trade.

Human Trafficking is a fundamental assault on basic human dignity. It affects millions of men, women and children throughout the world. More than twice as many people are in bondage in the world today as were taken in chains during the entire 350 years of the African Slave Trade. Over 100 000 of which are in Europe, 1 in 8 are in the United Kingdom, some British, many European.

Human Trafficking includes Debt Bondage, Domestic Slavery, Child Labour as well as the more well known Sex Industry and it takes place throughout the UK – often in peaceful looking suburbia. Cases of Human Trafficking have recently been identified in Worthing, Northampton, Ipswich, Dundee, Birmingham, Plymouth, Exeter, Colchester, Nottingham, Belfast, Edinburgh, Paignton and London.

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More details about modern day slavery and the work of the Group at http://www.allpartygrouphumantrafficking.org/