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The figures come as the British Standards Institute (BSI) launches its new world first national standard to help organisations across the UK eradicate modern slavery

Briton Gordon Miller began his cycle in Charlottesville, Virginia on October 5 and is to finish in Washington DC on October 18.

Its estimated that 130,000 people in the UK are victims of modern day slavery

Exclusive: Charities working with victims say it should not be taken away from the safeguarding minister

Tuberville claimed Democrats want to give slavery reparations to people who "do crime"

Welcome to the Tuesday, October 11, Brew. 

Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville from Alabama has refused to apologize for saying that Democrats want reparations for slavery because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.”

On November 8, 2022, voters in five states—Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont—will decide on amending their state constitutions to repeal language regarding the use of slavery or indentured servitude as punishment for a crime, or, in the case of Vermont, for the payments of debts, damages, fines, costs.

Exclusive: People not trying to claim being trafficked to gain UK asylum, says head of labour abuse authority