Forced labour is thriving in the UK and the resulting trauma suffered by survivors leaves a lasting, indelible impact.
![Three women were rescued after 30 years in captivity in a London flat [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013112765825750734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Mei-Ling McNamara is a journalist and documentary filmmaker working on issues of human rights and social justice. Her film for Al Jazeera English, Children of the Cannabis Trade, highlighted the criminalisation of Vietnamese trafficking victims in the British justice system.
Forced labour is thriving in the UK and the resulting trauma suffered by survivors leaves a lasting, indelible impact.
![Three women were rescued after 30 years in captivity in a London flat [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013112765825750734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)