Tories campaign against today's slavery

The Conservative Party has launched this poster today as part of a new campaign against human trafficking.  The Guardian has a full report on William Hague's remarks at the campaign's launch but here is a key extract from his speech:

"Human trafficking is an extreme example of the violation and abuse of the rights of an individual.  And yet it is being carried out on a terrifying scale throughout the world.  The prevailing economic disparities, social attitudes and law-enforcement vacuums that allows vulnerable groups of women to be suppressed in this way is also conducive to the suffering of a whole range of other injustices in family, working, community and political life.  We must tackle these problems in order to secure a brighter future for thousands of women around the world, which will, in turn, advance the security, freedoms and prosperity of us all."

Related link: ConservativeHome readers recently approved Andrew Gilbert's 100policies.com idea that Britain should ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.

Comments

[James Maskell]

Easy to say in opposition and makes Blair look like hes looking way into the past instead of looking at today's problems. Job done.

[John Irvine]

Is this actually a party political issue?

Should it be?

Surely "White Slavery" is an issue on which all parties are agreed. If Hague doesn't think the government are doing enough why doesn't he spell it out?

[Deborah]

An effective way to highlight the contradiction between Blair's words and his Government's inaction. Such a serious issue deserves more than lip-service from our PM.
At last Hague seems to be doing something useful.

[Cllr Green (rep-Kent)]

I rather like this ad because it's rather difficult to show the sex of the "worker." It allows the mind to imagine and wonder who he or she is, and thus sticks and is more effective for it.

[Serf]

Instead of worrying about people who suffered 200 years ago, this is what The Prime Minister should be interested in.

8.500 slaves in London alone means a huge number of people exploiting this poor unfortunates.

[Roger Thornhill]

Fighting human trafficking is a "War on Sex" on par with the "War on Drugs".

Stop making prostitution a crime, regulate it lightly and then people in the trade are not isolated, criminalised. That would be the start, as would the solution to drugs.