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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10660
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

Forced labour and human trafficking in Europe

Brussels, 20/07/2012 (AgenceEurope) - Nearly two of every thousand Europeans are subject to forced labour and human trafficking in one of the 27 EU member states, something that EU legislation describes as “a violation of fundamental human rights”. There are around 880,000 victims of forced labour or trafficking in Europe, often trapped by false job offers. Working conditions fall far short of what they had been led to expect and they are forced into illegal labour with little scope for...

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