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The Conservatives have launched their plans to tackle human trafficking
Tories launch human trafficking plan

The Conservatives have launched their plans to tackle human trafficking – an offence they describe as “the modern slave trade”. Between 700,000 and two million women and children are trafficked across international borders every year, the party said, with an estimated 4,000 victims of trafficking for prostitution in the UK in 2003 – but no… Read more »

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Two missing girls are thought to have been murdered
Prostitute murders prompt calls for law change

The Liberal Democrats have called for a “wholesale review” of Britain’s prostitution laws, amid fears that a serial killer is targeting sex workers in Ipswich. Leader Menzies Campbell said the spate of prostitute murders in Suffolk highlighted the plight of many women on drugs or facing poverty who were forced on to the street, and… Read more »