The Possible Extent of the Modern Slavery Bill

Home 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.