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Modern slavery includes several forms of abuse including slavery, human trafficking, forced labour and domestic servitude.
Human traffickers and slave masters use whatever means they have at their disposal to coerce, deceive and force individuals into a life of abuse, servitude, and inhumane treatment Someone is in slavery if they are:
- Forced to work (through mental or physical threat)
- Owned or controlled by an ‘employer’, usually through mental or physical abuse, or the threat of abuse
- Dehumanised, treated as a commodity, or bought and sold as ‘property’
- Physically constrained or has restrictions on his or her freedom of movement