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<p>We are committed to tackling people trafficking and all forms of modern slavery.
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 gives law enforcement agencies the tools they need to
tackle modern slavery, ensures that perpetrators can receive suitably severe sentences
up to life imprisonment, enhances support and protection for victims and places a
duty on large businesses to report on what they are doing to stop modern slavery occurring
in their global supply chains. We have successfully lobbied for the establishment
of the first ever UN Sustainable Development Goal to end modern slavery and are working
with a range of international partners to tackle slavery and its causes. We are also
piloting a new approach to identifying and supporting potential victims of slavery
through the National Referral Mechanism and we have appointed an Independent Anti-Slavery
Commissioner to spread best practice in the UK and overseas.</p>
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