Anti-Slavery Day Bill

House of Commons

Session 2009 - 10
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Anti-Slavery Day Bill

Anti-Slavery Day Bill
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A
Bill
To
introduce a national day to raise awareness of the need to eradicate all forms
of slavery, human trafficking and exploitation; and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
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Anti-Slavery Day
(1)
The Secretary of State shall by order made by statutory instrument specify a
date which shall be observed each year as Anti-Slavery Day.
(2)
The purpose of Anti-Slavery day shall be to—
(a)
acknowledge that modern-day slavery is taking the place of the trans-
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Atlantic slave trade and that millions of men, women and children
continue to be victims of modern-day slavery, depriving them of basic
human dignity and freedom;
(b)
raise awareness amongst young people and others of the dangers and
consequences of modern-day slavery, human trafficking and
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exploitation and encourage them to be proactive in the fight against it;
(c)
draw attention to—
(i)
the progress made by government and those working to combat
all forms of modern-day slavery, human trafficking and
exploitation, and
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(ii)
what more needs to be done.
(3)
In this Act “modern-day slavery” includes—
(a)
trafficking for sexual exploitation,
(b)
child trafficking,
(c)
trafficking for forced labour, and
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(d)
domestic servitude.
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Short title and extent
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Anti-Slavery Day Act 2010.

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(2)
This Act extends to England and Wales.