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Secretary Theresa May had recently proposed a Modern Slavery bill, which would
protect those abused by their employers, victims of human trafficking, and those
forced to engage in criminal activities, and according to analysts, its
benefits may materialize for some time this year. However, their media
description is most likely the ideal, because I know the local police and
courts of justice will have different implementations of these new laws.
According to
a recent speech by the Queen of England, the UK’s new legal bill will protect
victims from traffickers, especially those forced to engage in criminal
activity. The new bill, she said, will have them compensation from any of the assets
seized from their traffickers. She added that the new bill will further strengthen
the punishments for human traffickers.
Drug formulation
and cannabis growth is illegal in many parts of Europe, and the United Kingdom
is one of them. However, some European countries allow the consumption of
cannabis. Many organised crime rings make use of foreign migrants, including
women and children, to work in production, and most of them end up being associates
or collaborators to the scheme when they were really victims.
Any law or
bill that protects those whose stories are not told properly, especially
confused collaborators, is welcome for me in the United Kingdom. However, it is
important that UK officials, both on the domestic and national scale, will live
up to the promise of benefits and rights the law indicates.
