Human Rights, Positive Obligations, and Measures to Prevent Human Trafficking in the UK

Turner, Ian David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2015) Human Rights, Positive Obligations, and Measures to Prevent Human Trafficking in the UK. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1 (4). pp. 296-317. ISSN 2332-2705

[thumbnail of Author Accepted Manuscript]
Preview
PDF (Author Accepted Manuscript) - Accepted Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives.

193kB

Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2015.1034612

Abstract

Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights is freedom from slavery. A key feature of this right is the obligation it imposes on states such as the UK to prevent violations of the freedom, such as the trafficking in human beings, by third parties. This piece finds that the UK’s response to its duties in preventing human trafficking is patchy but concludes that this will be much improved with its new Modern Slavery Bill 2014-15.


Repository Staff Only: item control page