The news in brief 8th June 2016

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Modern day slavery

You might think that when slavery was abolished back in the 1833 that people being trafficked was a thing of the past. You would, however, be very wrong. The world today sees more adults and children in slavery than ever before. Some 21,000,000 people are slaves today, just let that number sink in. That's people taken from their homes by force or promised jobs in a foreign land only to find themselves in a situation where they are held against their will and made to work for nothing. It's not just something that happens in faraway lands. The home office estimates that there are 14,000 slavers in the UK and even they think they might be under estimating this figure by as many as 3 times. That's in the UK and it means that it's likely you live within less than a mile of someone who is being held against their will.

Hope for Justice is an organisation that investigates cases of slavery, rescues the victims, helps them recover and helps to prosecute the people responsible. They employ investigators across the UK finding these victims, they train local law enforcement and health professionals in what to look out for to spot the signs that someone has been trafficked.

What can you do. They can only end slavery one person at a time. Hope for Justice estimates that it costs them £4000 to save someone from this terrible reality and help them to get their lives back. Anything you can give them to help them raise this money would be gratefully appreciated.

Give this link a click: hopeforjustice.org and see what they’re all about.

We’ll be back to normal tomorrow. We were going to let the Summary Squirrel lay into Noel Edmonds, but this was brought to our attention today and it seemed more important than tackling pseudoscientific dumbquackery.

Next time Edmonds, Next time.

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